Stanlib on Wednesday announced the appointment of George Brits, currently chief executive of Stanlib Asset Management, as chief executive of Stanlib Limited with effect from June 1 2006. The appointment date coincides with the date that the current chief executive of Stanlib Limited, Bruce Hemphill, will be taking over the reigns at Liberty Life.
Tributes and messages of condolence streamed in on Wednesday afternoon after former KwaZulu-Natal social welfare minister Prince Gideon Zulu (72) died on Tuesday evening following a long illness. United Democratic Movement president Bantu Holomisa hailed Zulu as a ”fierce warrior … who showed humility and warmth”.
Uganda on Wednesday set a July deadline for the leader of the notorious rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to end a nearly two-decade insurgency and agree to peace talks or face military destruction. President Yoweri Museveni said his government would assure the safety of LRA supremo Joseph Kony and four lieutenants indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.
Tributes and messages of condolence streamed in on Wednesday afternoon after former KwaZulu-Natal social welfare minister Prince Gideon Zulu (72) died on Tuesday evening following a long illness. United Democratic Movement president Bantu Holomisa hailed Zulu as a ”fierce warrior … who showed humility and warmth”.
Three days of torrential rain destroyed more than 1 000 homes, most of them mud huts, and unearthed 50 tombs in a rural section of Burundi, officials said Wednesday. The downpour started on Sunday and washed away 900 homes in Mpanda and 200 in Kinyinya, according to administrators in the region.
HIV/Aids organisations in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, have warned people to be on the lookout for individuals selling fake antiretrovirals (ARVs).
The physical toll of the new and extended Super 14 has hit the Springboks hard, with three players seemingly out for some time, and the news would not have brought comfort to Jake White as the training camp in Bloemfontein got under way in Bloemfontein on Wednesday.
German security authorities believe 21 World Cup matches are at high risk of terrorist attack, Stern magazine reported on Wednesday. The assessment, compiled by Germany’s Federal Crime Office, known as the BKA, said Islamic extremists posed a particular danger, according to the magazine.
Foreign visitors to the World Cup should avoid some areas around Berlin because of the risk of racist attack, a former German government spokesperson said on Wednesday. ”There are small and mid-sized towns in Brandenburg and elsewhere where I would advise anyone with a different skin colour not to go,” Uwe-Karsten Heye told Deutschlandradio Kultur.
The South African Communist Party (SACP) will decide this weekend whether to take part in an African National Congress probe into a hoax e-mail scam. Senior figures in the ruling party were smeared by the e-mails, in an apparent succession battle for the presidency.