The United Nations has adopted a harsh policy in an attempt to move people to higher ground Chris McGreal A United Nations strategy of withholding aid from flood-stricken towns and villages in Mozambique in an attempt to pressure residents to move to refugee camps has left thousands of people desperate for clean drinking water and […]
John Matshikiza WITH THE LID OFF I am not simply returning a compliment when I say that it was somewhat uplifting to see Aggrey Klaaste stand up in St George’s church, Parktown, Johannesburg, last Tuesday afternoon, and deliver a warm and honest tribute to the late Jim Bailey. It was a particularly striking gesture because […]
“Didn’t it evoke any laughter?” – Barney Pityana to Claudia Braude on the Mail & Guardian’s Machiavelli cartoon which she said demonised Thabo Mbeki “I wasn’t looking at that.” – Braude replies “If I had been a journalist I would have embraced a process like this.” – Braude on the Human Rights Commission probe into […]
A six-member delegation from the Federation of International Football Associations (Fifa) arrived in South Africa on Thursday to evaluate our bid for the 2006 World Cup. The country will be putting on an all-out show to prove to the delegation leader, American lawyer Alan Rothenberg, and his team that we deserve to host the spectacle. […]
BRITISH-BORN supermodel Naomi Campbell jetted into South Africa this week to attend the official launch on Thursday of the new logo and name for the World Motorcycle Grand Prix, Phakisa raceway organisers said. She attended a lunch at the Phakisa hospitality suites tower at Welkom’s Phakisa Freeway with about 400 other invited guests. The first […]
SOUTH African Breweries has received permission from the Indian government to proceed with a $35,3-million investment in a joint venture in Indiay. The joint venture provides for SAB’s investment in Narang Industries Limited, one of India’s oldest industrial houses. The venture — which includes Hallvard Limited, a non-resident Indian investment company — was concluded in […]
SANLAM said on Wednesday that it has boosted its headline earnings for the year ending December 31 1999 by 65% to R1955-million. Headline earnings per share amount to 73,4 cents – 26% higher than in 1998. A 26% return on equity has been achieved and Sanlam’s operating profit increased by 39% to R1722-million. Announcing the […]
AMAGLUG-GLUG face the Black Meteors in an Olympic qualifier this weekend without defender Aaron Mokoena, midfielder Quinton Fortune and strikers Benni McCarthy and Siyabonga Nomvete after a domestic ruling barring senior national team players from the squad. The under-23 side is trailing in Group B with Cameroon leading 1992 bronze medalists Ghana and South Africa […]
THE health of former Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, 97, who has been in hospital since Sunday, is improving, officials said. Bourguiba, who led Tunisia’s independence struggle and ruled the North African state for 30 years, is in hospital with an acute inflammation of the respiratory system.
OWN CORRESPONDENT , Antananarivo | Friday 5.00pm. PLANES carrying 12 tons of aid from the UN’s World Food Programme took off on Friday for northeast Madagascar, as hundreds of thousands of people on the island suffered dire hardship after two cyclones. Two Antonov planes belonging to the Madagascan army, each carrying three tons of food, […]