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Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Index fell 245.82, or 0.9 percent, to 27,144.49 in Johannesburg. The following were among the most active stocks in the South African market today.
After years of delays, the Airbus A400M, designed to replace aging military cargo carriers, is set to take off on its maiden flight this week.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Mumias Sugar Co. Ltd, a Kenyan grower and processor of the sweetener, is looking for companies to help it build an ethanol distillery plant in the East African nation, according to a company advertisement in the Standard newspaper today.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The following is a list of companies whose shares may have unusual price changes in South Africa . Stock symbols are in parentheses after company names and prices are from the last close.
Charlotte (Aitken) Whalen of Quincy, a retired teller, died Saturday at Colonial Nursing Home in Weymouth. She was 84. Born in Boston, Mrs. Whalen was a resident of Quincy. ...
Using her finger on the computer's touch pad, Taylor Radtke scrolled through a dizzying array of black-and-white photographs of her brain.
What do you get when the past crystallises out of the future? According to a new model of the universe that combines relativity and quantum mechanics, the answer is: the present.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) --Blue Financial Services Ltd. is seeking to enter the Egyptian market and is in talks with potential partners in that country, Business Report said, citing Morne Reinders, corporate affairs executive at the Pretoria, South Africa-based company.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa should nationalize gold and platinum mines first, Julius Malema, the president of the African National Congress Youth League, told students at a meeting in Durban yesterday, the South African Press Association reported.
It was quite a successful weekend for a number of the area’s players at the prestigious select Germantown Invitational in Memphis, Tennessee.The tournament was established in 1978 and annually features over 450 teams from over 30 different states for its four weekends of play. Games take place at the Mike Rose Soccer Complex.
Applications for World Cup tickets have surged following the draw for next year's event with almost 222,000 made in the 48 hours since the last phase of sales opened, FIFA said on Monday.
Wimborne, UK (SPX) Dec 08, 2009 - Cobham has successfully demonstrated a new, cleaner, reusable technology capable of ejecting light stores from bomb racks. The Cold Gas Cartridge was successfully demonstrated at the Overberg Test Centre in South Africa on 20th November 2009.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- The goalkeepers at next year's World Cup should consider their geography before getting on the field. A study by Adidas shows altitude will have an impact of up to 5 percent on a ball's speed. That means a 20-yard free kick during the final at Soccer City in high-altitude Johannesburg will reach the goal line 5 percent faster than it would at Moses Mabhida stadium in ...
"Invictus" is a sports film that is more about what's happening in the stands than on the playing field.
"Invictus" is a sports film that is more about what's happening in the stands than on the playing field. It's South Africa in 1990 and change _ as seen in the first scene of the film _ is literally coming down the street. After 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) has been released.
Remember a while back when we told you about Jennifer Hudson’s next acting gig in the Winnie Mandela biopic? Well many native South Africans are up in arms about the Oscar winner portraying the ex-wife of the nation’s first Black president Nelson Mandela. According to Yahoo, The Creative Workers Union of South Africa is against foreign [...]
12/4/2009 - ATA, Codega Release New Safety Videos Through a partnership with Codega, the American Trucking Associations has released three new safety videos along with accompanying educational materials....
LONDON (AP) — With six months to go before the World Cup, Tim Howard has already put the fear in England.
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma addresses a crowd on World AIDS Day in Pretoria. The leader announced that his nation will treat all HIV-positive babies and expand treatment and testing for everyone.
COPENHAGEN - On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen's biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the "summit to save the world", which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200. "We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention," she says. "But it seems that somebody last week looked at the ...
Athol Fugard’s new play, at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, is a distinctly minor addition to his renowned and influential canon.
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