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/ 23 February 2005
Global resources group Anglo American is confident about the prospects for its 2005 financial year as reflected by the strong 30% increase in its total dividend per share for the 2004 year, Anglo Financial Director Tony Lea said during a conference call on Wednesday.
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/ 23 February 2005
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was weaker at midday on Wednesday, dragged down by resources heavyweight Anglo American, which released below consensus results, and weaker world markets. Dealers said that the market’s focus was on Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel’s 2005/06 Budget speech at 2pm.
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/ 23 February 2005
Hitting lion murder victim Nelson Chisale with pangas was not part of the job description of Richard Mathebula and Simon Mathebula, their former employer Mark Scott-Crossley told the Phalaborwa Circuit Court on Wednesday. Scott-Crossley and the Mathebulas are on trial for Chisale’s murder.
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/ 23 February 2005
Lectures resumed at all of the University of Johannesburg’s (UJ) campuses on Wednesday after a late-night agreement with students ended a class boycott and street protests, a UJ spokesperson said. On Tuesday, students took to the streets outside the campus in Bunting Road and police blocked the road to prevent a march.
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/ 23 February 2005
Attacks by local militia groups have killed about 100 people and driven 70 000 from their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s northeast Ituri region in the past two months, United Nations officials said on Tuesday. In the latest attack, three villagers were killed on Friday at Baliba, about 35km northeast of Ituri’s main town of Bunia.
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/ 23 February 2005
Toxic waste has washed up on Somalia’s shores almost two months after the devastating tsunami that struck countries bordering the Indian Ocean, according to a study by the United Nations Environment Programme presented on Tuesday in Nairobi.
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/ 23 February 2005
Rebels of Uganda’s rebel group calling themselves the Lord’s Resistance Army killed three people at a displaced persons’ camp on the eve of the expiry of a unilateral government ceasefire, officials said on Tuesday. The rebels also seriously injured two people and abducted another in the attack on Monday.
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/ 23 February 2005
The Germans have named a formidable team for the upcoming Euro/Africa zone group-one Davis Cup tie against South Africa to be played at the Standard Bank Arena from March 4 to 6. German captain Patrik Kuhnen has world number 15 Tommy Haas, Nicolas Kiefer (30), Rainer Schuettler (40) and Alexander Waske, who is at 138.
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/ 23 February 2005
The French telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel and United States software giant Microsoft on Tuesday announced a partership to develop software to deliver internet-based television services to broadband operators worldwide. The tie-up will also promote innovations in ADSL or cable-based television platforms.
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/ 23 February 2005
Archbishop Desmond Tutu launched a global campaign on Tuesday to record the birth of every child, saying nearly 50-million babies born every year are not registered and thus have no official identity and are often barred from education or health care.