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/ 21 January 2005
Canadian mining group Anooraq Resources on Friday announced that drilling has recommenced at the Boikgantsho joint venture properties, located on the northern limb of the Bushveld complex. Boikgantsho is a joint venture between Anooraq and Anglo Platinum.
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/ 21 January 2005
The narrow gravel airstrip in the dusty, desolate town of Rumbek has been a hive of activity since rebel and government leaders signed a historic peace accord officially ending Africa’s longest-running civil war. Businessmen, aid workers and diplomats have rushed to set up a presence in what is set to become the provisional capital of southern Sudan.
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/ 21 January 2005
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) does not require the Zimbabwean government’s permission to visit it’s counterparts in that country, the labour federation said on Friday. It was responding to comments made by Zimbabwe’s Labour Minister, Paul Mangwana, that Cosatu should not seek to return to the country.
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/ 21 January 2005
Before we get too misty-eyed with Live Aid nostalgia, remember what Queen got up to just months before. In 1985 they broke the United Nations’s cultural boycott and played gigs in apartheid South Africa, writes John Harris.
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/ 21 January 2005
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Almodóvar’s plots are often soap opera, but the means are highly arty — movies-within-movies and complex flashback structures –his latest offering Bad Education does not disappoint. Shaun de Waal reviews.
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/ 21 January 2005
A senior Eritrean military official has dismissed guarantees that Ethiopian troop movements near their common border were purely defensive, according to the United Nations. Eritrean Colonel Zecarias Ogbagaber said he believed the troop deployment was "provocative".
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/ 21 January 2005
After a positive opening in the black, the JSE Securities Exchange drifted into the red by noon on Friday, with a stronger rand weighing on heavyweight dual-listed and resources stocks. The decline set the bourse on course to post its fifth straight day of losses.
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/ 21 January 2005
Former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) international striker Emeka Mamale has joined Premiership side Silver Stars in a last ditch effort to revive his professional career. ”We are delighted to have signed a seasoned striker of Emeka’s calibre”, said Stars general manager Thamaga Mokgophi in Polokwane on Thursday.
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/ 21 January 2005
Ispat Iscor has obtained approval from South African environmental authorities for the construction of a new coke oven battery in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, the company announced on Friday. The plant is expected to enable the company to expand its market coke production by about 450 000 tonnes a year for the domestic ferro-alloy industry.
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/ 21 January 2005
Judging by recent key appointments to the South African Broadcasting Corporation, it is inevitable that Peter Matlare’s successor will be drawn from within the ranks of the African National Congress. Three people are said to be in the running: Nkenke Kekana, Mandla Langa and Snuki Zikalala.