Up to 100 anti-Group of 8 (G8) protesters were arrested in violent clashes with police in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, police said early on Tuesday. Riot police said they were bombarded with paving stones and bricks during several hours of pitched battles with 1Â 000 police in the city centre late on Monday.
Red distress flares are to be fired in emergencies only, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) warned on Monday. The call followed a false alarm on Saturday and another possible false alarm on Monday night in Simonstown, in which red distress flares were fired.
Prolific South African soccer agent Mike Makaab left South Africa on Monday in what is believed to be ”hush-hush” negotiations to conclude the transfer of the PSL’s player of the year, Collins Mbesuma, from Kaizer Chiefs to an English Premier League club.
If English wickets tumble in Thursday’s one-day international against Australia, captain Michael Vaughan is likely to send a bowler packing and tell substitute Matt Prior to pad up. And Australia captain Ricky Ponting interprets the law changes that will be trialled in the three-match series, beginning in Leeds Thursday, in much the same way.
Actis, a leading global private equity investor in emerging markets, and Comafin, a pan-African private equity fund, have jointly sold their 37,6% stake in Protea Hospitality Corporation to a black economic empowerment (BEE) consortium, highlighting their joint commitment to South Africa’s empowerment imperatives.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) on Monday said that nearly 190 000 of its members will strike over wages next week Tuesday. Last week, the wage negotiations between Numsa and the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of South Africa deadlocked.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has recognised the critical role to be played by the private sector in combating poverty in Africa, while pledging to push for the "best possible package" for the continent during the summit of the Group of Eight (G8) leading industrialised countries in Gleneagles, Scotland, set to begin on Wednesday.
London-listed development company African Platinum (Afplats) has completed the fieldwork on a three-dimensional seismic survey of its Leeuwkop project on the Western Limb of the Bushveld Complex in preparation for a bankable feasibility study, the company announced on Tuesday.
United States President George Bush comes to the G8 summit with posterity on his mind. He will never again have to go looking for votes or asking for campaign contributions, but he will have to listen to the American people to go down in history as a great conservative president.