Moammar Gadaffi blamed al-Qaeda on Thursday for an insurrection that has wrenched control of much of eastern Libya as he addressed the country again.
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Electric vehicles from Australia, Germany and Switzerland completed a pioneering 27 000km "emissions free" round-the-world trip on Thursday.
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/ 24 February 2011
The country’s most exciting festival of contemporary dance is well underway in Jo’burg.
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The Gupta family did not respond to detailed questions about the their involvement in the deal with Indian steelmaker Sail this week, but claimed a media conspiracy against them — and all the more so since the launch of their newspaper, The New Age. Duduzane Zuma said he associated himself with the response. Gupta spokesperson […]
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Steel producer ArcelorMittal’s chief executive, Nku Nyembezi-Heita, must have felt like the jilted suitor when she realised her new BEE partners, the Guptas and President Jacob Zuma’s son, Duduzane, are in bed with a competitor, the Steel Authority of India Ltd (Sail). But if that’s the way she feels she is not showing it. Her […]
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Afripalm Horizons is 51% owned by Afripalm Resources, according to one of its directors, Menzi Mbatha. Afripalm Resources’ largest shareholder is Lazarus Zim, its founder and chairperson. When the company did a major deal with listed Mvelaphanda Resources in 2007, his stake was put at 30% in a shareholder circular. The circular said that the […]
Greed, jealousy and ambition poisoned relations inside Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi’s family and often destroyed the careers of officials.
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At least 30 000 people, mainly Tunisian and Egyptian, have fled violence in Libya, the International Organisation for Migration said.
Lawyers for 46 people facing charges for allegedly plotting an Egyptian-style uprising in Zimbabwe said on Thursday that some had been tortured.
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The "illicit economy" is much more of a threat to SA’s regular economy than previously thought, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said.