1.   Bureaucratic procedures were to be streamlined, so that applications from companies seeking licences for exploration would be decided within a three-month period.

2.   Daimler-Benz is seeking licences for two other projects in infrastructure.

3.   Eurotunnel would seek a licence to operate a little-used optic fibre cable running through the tunnel and would then rent it to another company.

4.   TAC, MSF, COSATU and international development organisation Oxfam united Tuesday in calling on the South African government to seek compulsory licences.

5.   TAC, MSF, COSATU and international development organisation Oxfam united Tuesday in calling on the government to seek compulsory licences.