Costs of Harmony Gold\'s hostile bid for rival have more than doubled, and other brief reports ...
Publish date: 17 January 2005
Issue Number: 1255
Diary: Legalbrief Today
Category: Corruption
* The expected costs of Harmony Golds hostile bid for its larger rival Gold Fields have more than doubled since the offer was first made, with the parties now saying they are likely to spend a combined total of more than R440m. Business Day
* Former Bafana Bafana striker Philemon Masinga will appear in the Klerksdorp Magistrates Court today on charges of drunken driving and assault. Masinga reportedly went through a four-way stop in Jouberton, near Klerksdorp, and hit another car. After an argument, he allegedly assaulted the other driver. The Mercury * A US soldier has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars and a dishonourable discharge from the army for the notorious abuses of Abu Ghraib prisoners which he claimed he was ordered to carry out. IoL * More than 200 Botswanan bushmen will continue their fight to return to their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve when their High Court case against the government resumes today. The Botswana Government has evicted at least 1 500 Gana and Gwi Bushmen from the land in the last six years, according to London-based Survival International. SABC News * Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai briefly appeared in court last week on a second treason charge. He was ordered to return to court on May 17. He was accused of calling on Zimbabweans to oust Mugabe in a street protest in 2003. The Herald * A Durban woman, from Cato Manor informal Settlement, will appear in the Pinetown Magistrates Court today (Monday) on charges of kidnapping a baby from St Mary\'s hospital in Mariannhill. SABC News
