THE government is to spend about R100-million over the next 10 to 15 years to clean up abandoned asbestos mines and dumps in the Northern Province, Northern Cape and Mpumalanga, according to the Business Report. R45-million has already been spent over the past 13 years rehabilitating the dumps and mines. The budget this year is […]
SASOL is to construct a R1-billion detergent alcohol plant at Secunda, according to the Business Report. Sasol said the plant, due to be commissioned in March 2002, will add considerable value to its fuel from coal operations and become a major export earner. It will have an annual capacity of 120000 tons. Output will go […]
MUSLIM rebels holding 21 mostly foreign hostages, including two South Africans, for more than a month on Friday cancelled the planned start of formal talks with Philippine government negotiators. Manila’s chief negotiator, Roberto Aventajado, said the guerrillas called off Friday’s talks because they have moved the hostages. He now expects the talks to start on […]
NICOLE MORDANT, Johannesburg | Friday 12.30pm. PRE-election turmoil in Zimbabwe continued to weigh on sub-Saharan Africa’s two biggest bourses this week, and analysts expect market confidence to remain shaky until beyond next month’s poll. Analysts said that against a backdrop of waning offshore interest in African markets, activity across the bourses will remain subdued and […]
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Man meets woman; man doesn’t jump into bed with woman. Patrice Leconte, the award-winning director of Ridicule, tells Peter Lennon why his new film.
MORE than 150 people were killed in the clashes that erupted between Muslims and Christians in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna at the start of this week. The toll has risen past 150 with dozens of bodies observed in hospital morgues and on the streets in the two main riot-affected areas in the south […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 2.50pm. LABOUR Minister Membathisi Mdladlana said on Thursday that work-related accidents are costing the country billions of rand a year, and that urgent measures are needed to make workplaces safer. Mdladlana told a conference on occupational health in the North West that there is a need for dramatic intervention, by […]
THE National Association of Automobile Manufacturers anticipates vehicle exports will exceed R7-billion this year. South Africa exported R10-billion worth of components and about R5-billion worth of vehicles last year. Analysts said the industry has undergone massive changes since protectionism was lifted in 1994. A report this week by national automobile group Naamsa, says that the […]
DIPLOMATS and colleagues have praised two journalists slain in Sierra Leone as courageous men who sacrificed their lives to tell the tale of war. Reuters journalist Kurt Schork, a 53-year-old American, and Associated Press cameraman-producer Miguel Gil Moreno, 32, of Barcelona, Spain, died in an ambush on Wednesday afternoon. Four Sierra Leone Army soldiers were […]