FORMER Anglo American Corporation of South Africa chairman Gavin Relly died on Sunday after a short illness, the company said in a statement on Monday. Relly, who was 72, was chairman of South Africa’s largest company and the world’s largest bullion producer from 1983 to 1990. He succeeded Harry Oppenheimer and led Anglo through the […]

GAVIN RELLY, former chairman of Anglo American, has died aged 72 after a short illness. Relly was chairman of Anglo American from 1983 to 1990, succeeding Harry Oppenheimer. Among his notable accomplishments was his decision in 1985 to lead a delegation of business leaders to Lusaka to meet with the ANC, in defiance of the […]

PEOPLE living near the R488-million Driekoppies Dam in Mpumalanga fear for their lives and have urged both the government and the dam’s developers to move them from the area. Concerned Driekoppies residents said at a recent community meeting in Schoemansdal that many local houses were cracking and subsiding. ”We feel unsafe and the village feels […]

THE cost of Botswana’s peacekeeping operation in Lesotho was 4,2-million pula (R5,5-million) by the end of November, a Botswana Defence Force spokesperson said on Monday. Lieutenant-Colonel Mike Molefe said Botswana would foot the bill. There was still no date for the withdrawal of the country’s troops, sent to Lesotho in September last year as part […]

ENGEN Petroleum will establish a petrol retail network and lubricants supply facility in Ghana. Making the announcement in Cape Town on Monday, Engen’s CEO Rob Angel said the company felt confident about moving into Ghana as they already operate in 21 African countries. They will be in partnership with a local Ghanaian company and have […]

THE Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has taken over management and operations of the Zambia Electricity and Allied Workers Union (ZEAWU) with immediate effect. According to ZCTU secretary general, Silvester Tembo, a new management team has been put in place to run ZEAWU. The new team includes: ZCTU trustee, Norah Zulu; Zambia National Union […]

COMMUTER rail operator Metrorail is planning service reductions and job retrenchments as a result of a R300-million budget shortfall. This came after the transport ministry axed the parastatal’s request for R1,55-billion for its 1999 budget amid increasing demands for ministry resources. Government and the commuter operator is negotiating budget cuts, retrenchments and station closings. Metrorail […]

MPUMALANGA Premier Mathews Phosa has backtracked on public promises to launch an independent commission of inquiry into the province’s embattled parks board. Phosa promised repeatedly in October last year that he would stage an open inquiry into the litany of secret deals engineered by the Mpumalanga Parks Board (MPB) over the past four years. Phosa […]

SUMMIT-level talks aimed at ending the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be held in Lusaka next weekend, Zambian President Fredrick Chiluba said in the Zimbabwean capital Harare on Sunday. Preliminary meetings of officials and ministers will begin on Thursday and end “maybe on the 16th [January] and the summit will follow the […]

NEWBORN South African Siamese twins joined at the abdomen were in a critical but stable condition on Monday after being separated at the weekend. The girls underwent emergency surgery at Pretoria’s Ga-Rankuwa Hospital on Saturday night, hours after they were born, to separate their shared bowels. “Their vital signs are OK; there is nothing alarming […]