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/ 28 February 2007
Standard Chartered Bank, the world’s biggest emerging-market bank with more than 60 000 employees in 56 countries, including South Africa, says gold’s recent rally is set to continue. Framed in the context of current dollar weakness, the gold rally looks set to continue heading higher.
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/ 28 February 2007
Where’s ‘Mandela Doctrine’? Possibly the cornerstone of the 1994 settlement was the mutual recognition between Afrikaners and Africans, an event that took South Africa closer to the key to its future — realising harmony between its different communities. When trying to make sense of Afrikaners today, it is the sorry state of this mutual recognition […]
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/ 28 February 2007
The Ugandan government and northern rebels on Wednesday traded barbs ahead of a midnight truce expiry, raising fears of fresh clashes that could wipe out a stalled peace process to end two decades of war. The rebel Lord’s Resistance Army vowed not to renew the truce and to counter any army raids.
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/ 28 February 2007
The South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) on Wednesday condemned the violent protests by angry North West residents over poor service delivery. Although Sanco has been behind some of the protests, the organisation’s provincial secretary, Gabriel Nkgweng, said the organisation did not condone the violent nature that had characterised certain of the protests.
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/ 28 February 2007
South Africa looks set to reintroduce culling as one of a range of options for managing the country’s fast-growing elephant herds. Launching a set of draft regulations on Wednesday, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk stressed this would not ”immediately lead to the wholesale slaughter of elephants anywhere”.
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/ 28 February 2007
Australia captain Ricky Ponting warned on Wednesday that despite some recent poor form the world champions will be ”extremely hard to beat” at the upcoming cricket World Cup. Speaking to reporters at the Sydney Airport as the team flew out to the Caribbean in search of a third straight World Cup victory, Ponting said he believed his team deserved to remain favourites.
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/ 28 February 2007
South African diversified transport and logistics group Imperial increased first-half headline earnings per share by 21% and said on Wednesday it saw good full-year earnings growth. The group also said chief executive officer Bill Lynch will leave on November 1 and that the board is now looking for a new CEO.
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/ 28 February 2007
International currency fluctuations contributed to the New Zealand Rugby Union’s NZ,8-million (,4-million) loss in 2006, chief executive Chris Moller said on Wednesday. The result, better than its budgeted loss of NZ,2-million, compared with a NZ,7-million profit in 2005.
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/ 28 February 2007
Aids-ravaged Malawi launched a two-day national debate on Wednesday on whether to adopt male circumcision in a bid to reduce the levels of HIV infection in the south-east African country. Around 14% of Malawi’s population of 12-million is infected with HIV, according to official figures.
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/ 28 February 2007
There was no evidence linking African National Congress heavyweight Saki Macozoma to any foreign intelligence agency, said the inspector general of the National Intelligence Agency, Zolile Ngcakani. Ngcakani was testifying in the Hatfield Community Court on Tuesday where former spy boss Billy Masetlha was appearing.