# Iran se Revolusionêre Wag sê hy het ballistiese missiele op ‘n basis in Jordanië afgevuur wat deur die Amerikaanse Weermag gebruik word, en tien skepe aangeval nadat Amerika aangekondig het vyf Iranse olietenkskepe is vernietig. Dit dui op ‘n verergering van die oorlog van ses maande. Toenemende wedersydse aanvalle het ‘n maand van betreklike […]
# Die seun van Richemont se voorsitter, Johann Rupert, is aangestel as die maatskappy se nie-uitvoerende mede-adjunkvoorsitter. Suid-Afrika se rykste persoon, met ‘n geraamde netto-waarde van meer as 262-miljard-rand, het die Switsers-gebaseerde luukse goedere-houermaatskappy in 1988 gestig. Dit besit handelsmerke soos Cartier en Van Cleef & Arpels. Die 39-jarige Anton Rupert sal dien saam met […]
# Die brandreaksie-onderneming Fire Ops SA waarsku oor ‘n skerp toename in struktuurbrande wat verbind word met sonkraginstallasies. Die uitvoerende hoof en adjunkbrandweerhoof, De Wet Engelbrecht, sê data van Fire Force toon een uit elke vier van hierdie brande word verbind met foutiewe sonkragstelsels. Hy sê batterye, kragomsetters en verwante toerusting is verantwoordelik vir bykans […]
# Brent-ruolie-pryse het vandag tot bo 100-dollar per vat gestyg, ‘n hoogtepunt van meer as ses weke, en die simboliese vlak die eerste keer sedert 24 Julie oorgesteek terwyl die verergerende konflik in die Midde-Ooste kommer laat toeneem oor olie-vloei in die streek. Brent-pryse het sedert vroeg verlede maand met 25-persent gestyg terwyl die hoop […]
# Solidarity has expressed concern over growing retrenchments in the mining sector after Sibanye-Stillwater announced one-thousand-114 employees and contractors could be affected by restructuring at its Kwezi shaft in Rustenburg. The union’s Willie Venter says this cannot be viewed in isolation, with one-thousand-214 jobs under threat at De Beers’ Venetia mine and about one-thousand-800 at […]
# Western Cape MEC Ivan Meyer opened EOT Solutions’ new 30-million-rand advanced manufacturing facility at Freeport Saldanha in the Western Cape. The facility supports about 15 direct jobs and introduces world-class metal processing technology, including one of South Africa’s largest fibre laser beam cutting machines. Meyer says the investment supports the province’s Growth for Jobs […]
# Brent crude oil rose past 100-dollar a barrel today, hitting a more than six-week high and breaching the symbolic threshold for the first time since July 24 as intensifying conflict in the Middle East heightened concerns about oil flows from the region. Brent crude prices have risen by 25-percent since early last month as […]
# Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it fired ballistic missiles at a base in Jordan used by the US military and attacked 10 ships after America said it had destroyed five Iranian oil tankers. This is a sharp escalation of the six-month-old war. Increased attacks by both sides have shattered a month of relative calm, hitting […]
# The son of Richemont chairperson Johann Rupert, Anton, has been appointed as the company’s non-executive, co-deputy chairperson. Rupert senior, South Africa’s richest person with a net worth estimated at over 262-billion-rand, founded the Swiss-based luxury goods holding company in 1988. It owns brands such as Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels. Thirty-nine-year-old Anton Rupert […]
