THE Tanzanian government has stopped importing chloroquin because of the increased resistance of the malaria-causing parasites to the drug. Deputy Health Minister Tatu Ntimizi has said. Ntimizi told parliament at Dodoma in central Tanzania on Tuesday that government-owned medical stores were no longer mporting chloroquin anti-malarials. Official records show that Malaria is Tanzania’s leading killer […]
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GLENDA DANIELS, Johannesburg. The Mineworkers Development Agency, the job-creation wing of the National Union of Mines, is one of the few financially sustainable organisations in South Africa. In the face of massive job losses in the mining industry, about 300 000 over the past decade, the agency has developed a programme of support for enterprise […]
PUBLIC Service & Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Sunday that government is willing to negotiate employee benefits with public service unions but will not budge from its 6% salary increase across the board. “The 6% offer on the salary increase is final, but we are open to discussion on areas related to benefits.” Most […]
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright telephoned Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to discuss an Israeli-Palestinian-US summit called for next week. US President Bill Clinton convened the Israeli-Palestinian summit, scheduled to start July 11 at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland. Mubarak plays a facilitating role in the peace process and is visited frequently by […]
SALDANHA has partnered with Didada for the supply of equipment and services to project manage its SAP processing and storage hardware and Tru 64 Unix operating system infrastructure upgrade. The upgrade was required to meet IT growth needs and improve IT performance at the steel company. Saldanha Steel, the R6.8bn steel development project between Iscor […]
A CRIMINAL court in Senegal has dismissed a case against the former president of Chad, Hissene Habre, who faced charges of complicity in torture and crimes against humanity. Habre has been in exile in Senegal since being overthrown in a coup 10 years ago. Early this year, seven human rights groups filed a criminal complaint […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg. TELKOM is to implement a R1.2bn regional telecommunications network, for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) with the first phase rollout expected to be completed by the end of 2001. The entire project should be completed in five years, while it is intended that links between Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Botswana and between […]
THE UN Security Council has approved a resolution banning trade in diamonds mined from rebel-held areas of Sierra Leone. Diamonds are the main source of revenue for the Revolutionary United Front, which had taken 500 UN peacekeepers hostage in May. Resolution 1306, proposed by Britain, passed with 14 votes and one abstention from Mali. The […]
EXPECTED mergers and acquisitions in a number of gold mining companies could be one of the reasons for the current rally in the gold price. Gold Fields recently announced a $1.83m merger with Franco-Nevada. Barrick Gold, the world’s fourth producer after Gold Fields, has agreed to buy Tanzania’s Pangea Goldfields for R938M. Gold prices have […]