No image available
/ 23 November 2005
The JSE was flat in noon trade on Wednesday, with the positive effect of stronger world markets being offset by a stronger rand and lower precious metals prices. Volume-wise, it was a quiet morning’s trade, with just over R1,3-billion worth of shares changing hands.
No image available
/ 23 November 2005
Now man’s best friend can take a round in the chest and live to bark about it too, thanks to a new bulletproof vest for dogs. Manufactured by the German firm Mehler, the 3kg protective garment is on display this week at a high-tech security trade show outside Paris.
No image available
/ 23 November 2005
Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba has requested South Africa send forensic experts to help investigate apartheid-era mass graves recently found in the north of the country, Namibian Minister of Safety and Security Peter Tsheehama said late on Tuesday.
No image available
/ 23 November 2005
Indian conglomerate Tata Group will invest more than -million (R1,5-billion) in South Africa over the next three years to develop and operate telecommunication services, a news report said on Wednesday. Tata’s telecommunications unit plans to invest in the country’s long-distance and wireless service.
No image available
/ 23 November 2005
A stone struck KwaZulu-Natal legislature speaker Willies Mchunu on the head on Tuesday while he was on a fact-finding mission to the dissolved Abaqulusi municipality in Vryheid, the Natal Mercury website reported. Hundreds of Inkatha Freedom Party supporters stormed the hall where a community meeting was to be held.
No image available
/ 23 November 2005
Two boys aged nine and 12 burnt to death in a shack fire in an informal settlement in Kliptown on Tuesday night, emergency management services said. The boy’s father apparently locked them in the shack with a burning candle before going out at about midnight, spokesperson Malcolm Midgley said.
No image available
/ 23 November 2005
Warner Music Group has agreed to pay -million to settle an investigation into payoffs for radio airplay of artists, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said on Tuesday. Warner is the second major United States recording company to reform and settle with Spitzer in a practice the attorney general called industry-wide.
No image available
/ 23 November 2005
South Africa’s consumer price index excluding mortgage rate changes (CPIX) for metro and other areas, which is used by the South African Reserve Bank for its inflation target, rose by 4,4% year-on-year in October after increasing by 4,7% in September, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday.
No image available
/ 23 November 2005
Fifty-seven rebels have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s northeastern Ituri region during a three-day offensive by government troops backed by United Nations peacekeepers. ”Fighting was very fierce. Losses were heavy. One of our men was killed and seven wounded. As for the enemy, we counted 57 dead and several wounded,” said the army spokesperson in Ituri, Captain Olivier Mputu.
No image available
/ 23 November 2005
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, there is nothing left in Rick Undesser’s turkey barns but feathers and dirt. The slaughter began 10 days before Thanksgiving. A team of 24 hauled 350 birds a day from the barns to the butcher shop where they were slaughtered, plucked and packaged in air-tight plastic.