SOUTH Africa’s Southern African Customs Union partners will receive a payout of some R7,2-billion this year, a 28% jump on last year’s payout from the union’s revenue pool. The payout, however, is likely to be the last one of such magnitude as pressure to restructure the revenue-sharing formula grows, Business Day reported on Thursday. The […]
COTE d’Ivoire Finance Minister Niamien N’Goran on Monday questioned the critical findings of an investigation carried out last month by the International Monetary Fund. The IMF said after the February 9-18 mission that “all the conditions are not present for starting negotiations” on a lending program for 1999, citing difficulties managing public finances and calling […]
SOUTH Africa’s veteran offspinner Pat Symcox has in hot water for allegedly misbehaving on a flight home from Australia last week, according to press reports on Monday. South African Airways and the United Cricket Board of South Africa are conducting separate inquiries into allegations that Symcox (38) was rude and aggressive to flight staff, The […]
THE African National Congress signed a deal on Monday appointing the University of Connecticut in the United States as the sole North American repository of its liberation struggle archive. As part of the archive deal, the university which already has an extensive oral library of the World War Two Holocaust and the ensuing Nuremberg trials […]
SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Tuesday 11.10am. GROSS provisional gross gold and foreign exchange reserves amounted to R32,7-billion at the end of February, up on January’s figure of R32,6-billion, the Reserve Bank announced on Tuesday. In dollar terms, however, gross reserves declined by roughly $100-million from $5,4-billion to $5,3-billion at the end of February. The […]
A HARARE Magistrate’s Court remanded the case of Zimbabwe Mirror journalists Ibbo Mandaza and Grace Kwinjeh on Monday morning to April 30 on charges of violating the colonial Law and Order Maintenance Act. The court awaits the outcome of a Supreme Court application by the defence counsel challenging the constitutionality of Section 50 of the […]
NEW South Wales centre Jason Little may be on the bench for up to eight weeks after fracturing his collar bone during the 13-13 draw with South Africa’s Coastal Sharks on Saturday. Little was injured when he was tackled heavily in the final few minutes of the Super 12 match in Durban. “He will be […]
SATURDAY’S presidential elections in Nigeria “broadly reflected” the people’s will despite some “irregularities,” the United States’s State Department said on Monday.”Respected American and international observers have stated that the alleged and apparent election irregularities would not have affected the final outcome of the elections,” said department spokesperson James Foley. He praised outgoing Nigerian president General […]
A DELEGATION of European Union parliamentarians is due in South Africa on Thursday in a bid to bolster trade relations between the two groups. Last week the European Parliament passed a resolution regretting the EU council’s failure to approve the draft agreement concluded between the EU Commission and South Africa. Their planned visit is at […]
LIBYAN leader Moammar Gadaffi is due to arrive in Egypt on Friday for a two-day visit, sources said on Tuesday. This as President Nelson Mandela hit back Tuesday at South African political leaders who criticised his links with Gadaffi, saying these ties had borne fruit in the Lockerbie case. Gaddafi is expected to discuss with […]