STEVEN MANN , Cape Town | Thursday 12.30pm. EVIDENCE that Hansie Cronje was involved in more than just providing information to bookmakers mounted on Thursday, the second day of hearings staged by the King Commission which is probing corruption in cricket. Derek Crookes, the second player to testify, told of his surprise at being told […]
LONMIN, South Africa’s third biggest platinum producer, on Wednesday reported a 121% surge in half-year pre-tax earnings and forecast a major expansion in platinum production. Lonmim reported pre-tax profits of $135-million for the six months ended March 31 and proposed a 16% increase in the interim dividend to 14 cents per share. The sterling equivalents […]
UGANDAN and Rwandan troops resumed fighting in Kinsangani in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo early on Wednesday. Sporadic gunfire was heard in the centre of the town at about 5am, less than 24-hours after the United Nations Observation Mission to the DRC announced it has brokered a ceasefire in the town. Early skirmishes were followed […]
JUDGE Edwin King has denied an application by TV station e.tv and radio news service Live Africa Network News to screen the Hansie Cronje cricket inquiry live. Delivering his decision on Thursday morning, he said it was more important that the witnesses could testify freely than the public’s right to know. “Having regard to the […]
ALAN FINLAY & Reuters, Johannesburg | Thursday 4.30pm. THE rand has eased back to the R7 to the dollar mark for the first time in a week, after the currency failed to take inspiration from a firmer euro. The currency strengthened somewhat in midday trade to be last bid at R6,98 to the dollar but […]
FORMER South African cricket coach Bob Woolmer said on Wednesday that he received money for information he supplied to Graham Cowdrey a professional bookmaker in England. Woolmer said in Port Elizabeth: “A few of us who were not involved at all as players or in any other capacity in a County match, kept Chris Cowdrey’s […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 5.45pm. SOUTH African opening batsman Herschelle Gibbs on Thursday effectively sealed Hansie Cronje’s fate when he confessed he had accepted an offer from his former skipper to make less than 20 runs in a one-day match in India in exchange for $15000. The bombshell confession also casts a dark […]
THE UN has expressed concern at the plight of two dissident Cuban doctors reportedly detained in Zimbabwe after seeking asylum in a third country. The two, Leonel Cordova Rodriguez, 31, and Noris Pea Martinez, 25, were taken from their home by armed soldiers in the capital, Harare, on Friday afer allegedly denouncing the Cuban leader, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Gaborone | Thursday 12.00pm. THE Botswanan government aims to conclude double taxation treaties with all countries in the Southern African Development Community as soon as possible. The move is attracting foreign and local businesses. Already 16 companies have shown interest in setting-up in Gaborone, the majority of them from South Africa. International Finance […]
Former president Nelson Mandela said he believes his successor Thabo Mbeki has done a good job during his first year as president.