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CENTURY-OLD MINE SHUTS DOWN

The Rand Proprietary Mines Co. that opened its gold mine east of Johannesburg 106 years ago and won renown for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

PORTNET PROJECTS

Following the government decision to split the state-owned ports authority Portnet into two units (one for commercial management of infrastructures [...]

Subscribers only 10.07.1999

RENDEZVOUS FOR OPPENHEIMER JNR.

On the eve of the rendezvous she set up for July 7 with Nicolas 'Nicky' Oppenheimer, chairman and MD of [...]

Subscribers only 10.07.1999

MOELETSI MBEKI

Head of state Thabo Mbeki's younger brother was in Addis [...]

Subscribers only Politics 10.07.1999

CCA PREFERS PRETORIA

Despite the efforts of US ambassador to Tanzania Charles Stith [...]

Subscribers only 10.07.1999

JEREMIAH NDOU

The new South African minister for foreign affairs Mrs. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has lost no time in naming ambassadors. The four [...]

Subscribers only 03.07.1999

DOUBLE-TALK WITH WASHINGTON

Incoming South African ambassador to the United States Ms. Sheila Sisulu showed she wanted to make her country's position clear [...]

Subscribers only 03.07.1999

FOSCHINI GROUP SEEKS US BUDDY

A leader in Southern Africa with more than 400 outlets [...]

Subscribers only 03.07.1999

TOKYO CHANGES TACK

Developments among second-tier firms in Southern Africa's diamond mining sector have taken another twist with the acquisition by Mvelaphanda Diamonds [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

TRANS HEX COUNTER-ATTACKS

Diamond miner Trans Hex has gone on the offensive less than two weeks after Namibian Minerals Corp thwarted its planned [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

PUTTING MESSAGE ACROSS IN U.S.

A visit that Anglogold CEO Bobby Godsell and James Motlatsi, head of South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) wound [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

PHUMZILE MLAMBO-NGCUKA

South Africa's new minister of minerals and energy affairs has seen her nomination well received by sector professionals in South [...]

Subscribers only 26.06.1999

MBEKI ROLLS UP HIS SLEEVES

South Africa's newly-invested head of state Thabo Mbeki has lost no time in rolling up his sleeves — and telling [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.06.1999

KEEPING WASHINGTON AT BAY

The determination displayed by US vice president Al Gore and South Africa's then deputy president Thabo Mbeki to coordinate American [...]

Subscribers only 26.06.1999

FRENCH BULL IN SADC STATES

French enterprises specializing in water treatment and distribution have marked a bull in several member-states of the Southern African Development [...]

Subscribers only 19.06.1999

INVESTITURE MARATHON FOR MBEKI

At midday June 16, the investiture ceremony of high president-elect Thabo Mbeki completed, his 4,000 guests were dead beat. For [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.06.1999

NKOSAZANA DLAMINI-ZUMA

Head of state Thabo Mbeki on June 17 named Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as South Africa's new minister of foreign affairs. [...]

Subscribers only 19.06.1999

SOARES FOUNDATION PROJECT

The Mario Soares Foundation, named after Portugal's ex-president, is envisaging [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.06.1999

TRANS HEX/ODM TIE BLOCKED

Namibian Minerals Corp., a Toronto listed offshore diamond miner, has managed to thwart the merger of two Cape Town-based rivals, [...]