OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 11.20am. CELLULAR service provider MTN will no longer sponsor the Charity Spectacular football tournamnt following a decision by Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates not play in the event. The two clubs — who landed a R120-million sponsorship deal with rival cellular company Vodacom last week — have contract clauses […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki departs for Germany on Thursday, where he will officially open the South African stand at the Hanover Expo 2000 on Friday. Mbeki will then attend the Conference on Progressive Governance for the 21st Century with other world leaders in Berlin. After the conference, he will pay an official visit to Denmark from […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki is to officially open the Hannover Expo 2000, which runs from June 1 to October 31 and will focus on technological progress and advancement. South Africa’s contribution to the expo is the largest yet. The display will include a presentation on the exploration at prehistoric sites such as Sterkfontein as well as […]
A FOOTBALL qualifier between Malawi and South Africa to be played in February has become embroiled in controversy surrounding the television screening rights to the game. Gilton Chiwaula, director of Malawi’s corrupt practices watchdog, the Anti-Corruption Bureau, said that the body launched an investigation into the awarding of the screening rights following a complaint filed […]
THE last of some 250 South African and Botswana soldiers stationed in Lesotho for a year to help rebuild the country’s fractured army left the country on Tuesday. The military instructors — known as the Southern African Development Community Training Team in Lesotho — started withdrawing from Lesotho at the weekend. They were sent to […]
PRESIDENT Laurent Kabila’s government said it would not attend a meeting in Benin called by Africa’s envoy overseeing preparations for national dialogue in Democratic Republic of the Congo, as foreseen in a 1999 peace deal. Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Yerodia told state radio that rebels who took up arms in 1998 first had to “denounce the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 2.00pm. JEFFREY’S Bay will host the first R1-million surfing event in South Africa when the Billabong MSF Pro starts in the Eastern Cape town on June 29. The event, sanctioned by the Association of Surfing Professionals, forms part of the 13-event World Championship Tour that crowns the annual men’s […]
AN electronics, electrical engineering and information technology export council has been set up to promote international sales of South African electrotechnical goods and services. Membership has so far been extended to 38 companies.
FORCES allied to Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila said on Wednesday they repulsed an attack on their positions by the Uganda-backed rebels, killing 49 of them. Last week, the United Nations observer mission in the DRC accused the rebels of violating a ceasefire signed by the warring parties last year. The UN Security […]
OIL giant Royal Dutch Shell said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell its Australian-based coal business to Anglo American for between $850-million and $900-million in cash. The final price is dependent on balance sheet adjustments on completion of the deal, Shell said in a statement, adding that it expects to finalise the agreement by […]