Daily Dispatches

By Stewart Bailey
South Africa Business Report
www.businessreport.co.za
February 7, 2001

Cape Town -- The main feature of the opening day of the African
Mining Indaba yesterday was continued speculation that Gold Fields,
the country's second-largest gold producer, was to be the target of a
hostile takeover bid by rivals AngloGold and Barrick.

Mining analysts and corporate financiers from across the globe were

12:20p ET Sunday, February 4, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Yesterday's Durban Independent reported that GATA has
been endorsed by South Africa's National Union of
Mineworkers. This is one of the crucial steps toward
getting that country behind the gold cause and the
cause of free markets, and one of the things GATA
Chairman Bill Murphy went to South Africa to
accomplish. If South Africa can be persuaded to stand

3:17p ET Monday, February 5, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Please try this corrected link to GATA
Chairman Bill Murphy's national radio
interview in South Africa:

a href=http://www.moneyweb.co.za/http://www.moneyweb.co.za//a

Sorry for the inconvenience.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

9:40p ET Friday, February 2, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy continued today his
meetings with business leaders in South Africa,
attending a conference with the Chamber of
Commerce in Johannesburg and dining on, among
other things, crocodile and ostrich. Murphy as
to travel to Cape Town tonight and will attend
the Indaba mining industry conference next week.