Construction company Group Five has won a R1,8-billion contract from Transnet to widen Durban’s harbour by 100m and to increase the depth by six metres. Working with Belgian company, Dredging International, Group Five Civil Engineering is responsible for the civil portion of the contract, valued at R1,1-billion.
His thirst for the limelight has driven him to launch a multilingual blog and issue a string of headline-grabbing statements. But Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was surprisingly camera-shy when his extrovert persona drew the attention of Hollywood.
A total of R22-billion will be spent in the next seven years on upgrading and expanding Gauteng’s highways. The Ben Schoeman highway between Johannesburg and Pretoria will get an additional lane in each direction and two lanes will be added to the R21 highway in each direction.
Former Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) leader Motsoko Pheko has been expelled from the party he joined soon after its formation in the 1960s. Pheko’s expulsion was decided in his absence by the party’s national executive committee. He was accused of misappropriating party funds. However, Pheko denied knowledge of his expulsion.
At rainy Wimbledon, the reigning champion shows signs of making another big splash. Amelie Mauresmo keeps moving forward, and her aggressive game has advanced her to the fourth round. ”I think it comes pretty naturally for me,” the Frenchwoman said.
If United States President George Bush hopes fresh lobster and scenic boat rides will sway Russia’s Vladimir Putin, he’ll find out on Monday when they try to mend relations now at a post-Cold War low. The leaders will hold talks at the end of Putin’s overnight visit to the Bush family’s New England estate in a bid to find common ground on thorny issues.
The African National Congress (ANC) has dismissed a media report on its national policy conference in Midrand last week. The report in the Sunday Times was ”wholly and deliberately fabricated”, the ANC charged in a statement released late on Sunday night.
Portugal is prepared to invite President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe to a summit of European and African leaders in Lisbon this year despite an European Union travel ban. The last European Union-Africa summit took place in 2000. Plans for a similar meeting in 2003 collapsed because of the Mugabe dispute.
It is already the world’s biggest country, spanning 11 time zones and stretching from Europe to the Far East. But this week Russia signalled its intention to get even bigger by announcing an audacious plan to annex a vast, 1,19-million-square-kilometre chunk of the frozen and ice-encrusted Arctic.
While the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) shouts and stomps its feet after having lost the rights to the drawcard that is Premier Soccer League football, industry insiders accuse the public broadcaster of double standards and insist that its showing of public bravado is just sour grapes.