MONDAY, 10.30AM The much-touted possibility of a merger between local mining house Johannesburg Consolidated Investments and multinational Lonrho was toned down a few notches on Monday by Lonrho CEO Nick Morrell’s announcement that talks on a possible merger are at a “preliminary stage”, despite market speculation that the a deal was imminent. Presenting the group’s […]
TUESDAY, 2.00PM The nationawide road blockade between 6.00AM and 9.00AM on Tuesday appears to have been a flop, with very few motorists taking part and isolated reports of blocked roads. The organisers, the SA Guild of Motoring Journalists, nonetheless claimed success. Guild president Patrick O’Leary said: “Contrary to us inhibiting people’s movement, they gave us […]
MOBUTU AIDES FACE ARREST THE Kabila government in Kinshasa will crack down on fraud and corruption among officials in the ousted Mobutu regime, suspending the chiefs of state-owned companies and arresting those party officials who have not fled the country. MINE MURDER PROBE THE North-West Province department of safety and security is to set up […]
TUESDAY, 11.30AM: BOTH South African tennis stars Amanda Coetzer and Wayne Ferreira are in tenuous positions in the first round of the Wimbledon tournament in London, after rain and failing light ended play during their matches on Monday. Ferreira is two sets down against Australian Scott Draper, and leads by one game in the third […]
TUESDAY, 11.45AM: ERNIE ELS has taken up position at the top of the world golf rankings with 9,95 points. Tiger Woods and Colin Montgomery are second and third. GOLF TOP TWENTY Ernie Els 9,95 Tiger Woods 9,68 Colin Montgomery 9,61 Greg Norman 9,51 Nick Price 9,24 Tom Lehman 8,96 Steve Elkington 8,74 Jumbo Ozaki 8,11 […]
MONDAY, 12.00 NOON: ANDREW MATABOLA made another successful defence of his South African featherweight title, after a fifth-round technical knockout win over challenger Terrence Nkosi, to win the Old Buck championship belt at Nasrec outside Johannesburg on Sunday. Nkosi didn’t put up much of a fight – he was knocked down twice in the fourth […]
MONDAY, 4.00PM MILITIA loyal to former Congolese dictator Denis Sassou Nguesso fired heavy weapons at the parliament in Brazzaville on Monday, after sporadic fighting resumed in the Congo capital on Sunday. Violating a ceasefire, the rebels are firing to prevent the swearing-in of the constitutional council, which is to decide whether elections scheduled for July […]
MONDAY, 8.00AM: WITH injuries to several key players, a demoralised ‘Bok team face a British Lions team determined to win again in Durban on Saturday to clinch the test series. The Lions won 25-16 over the Springboks at Newlands on Saturday. The Bok team will be under immense pressure to perform, with the prospect ahead […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM: MARIUS CORBETT scored another world championship qualifying mark in the javelin event at the Southern Region Athletics championships in Durban on Sunday, with a personal best of 83,56m. Corbett has secured a place on the plane to Athens for the world championships in August, but things are not as certain for Hestrie Storbeck, […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM ACCORDING to the latest Reserve Bank Quarterly Report, real fixed investment by local authorities and parastatals showed healthy growth in the first quarter of this year, suggesting that infrastructure growth based on the Reconstruction and Development Programme is getting under way. The Bank’s figures ahow that public corporations increased investment by an annualised […]