SIERRA Leonean rebels appear to have released the last of more than 500 UN peacekeepers they took hostage almost four weeks ago when a peace accord collapsed. “We are optimistic that the release of the hostages signals a positive change of direction by the Revolutionary United Front in coming back to seek a peaceful settlement,” […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Monday 11.55am SIMON Ramoni retained his IBO junior featherweight world title on Friday night in London, scoring an eighth round stoppage over Patrick Mullings, the fighter he took the title from in 1998. It was an all-action fight with both fighters being dropped early on. At the time of the stoppage, […]
THE leader of Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) indicated Sunday that he would move to expel former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam if the MDC wins parliamentary elections due next month. “There is no room here in Zimbabwe for Mengistu,” Morgan Tsvangirai said. Colonel Mengistu, ousted nine years ago, has been living in an […]
Nando’s has reported a 21,26% rise in headline earnings per share to 8,1 cents for the year ended February 29 from 6,68 cents the year before, reports said. Revenues have increased by 13,46% to R321,5 million from R283,3 million the year before. Operating profit before interest and depreciation increased by 46,65% to R41,3-million from R28,2-million […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.30pm. MOST counters ended firmly in positive territory on Monday, the overall finishing 1,01% or 73 points up. With markets in the United Kingdom and United States closed, dealers said futures buying helped the local bourse fair better. The financial index closed 2% or 180 points good, while the industrial […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 11.30am. A GOLDEN Arrow bus driver was shot dead and six commuters were wounded on Monday in Delf, one of Cape Town’s townships. The police’s Superintendent Wicus Holzhausen said the bus driver died after gunmen, believed to be from a minibus taxi organisation locked in a turf war with […]
THE trial starts on Monday of three suspects accused of abducting, raping and finally murdering a Brenda Fairhead and her 11-year-old daughter, Kia, near Port Alfred. The Cape Town women disappeared in January this year after an angling outing at the Fish River mouth. Three weeks have been set aside for the High Court trial, […]
AIRPORT A BOMB attack was launched on Monday at the airport in the Eritrean capital just north of a terminal at around 11.45am. A building was in flames and smoke could be seen in the distance. The attack apparently took place as a Red Cross plane carrying relief aid was unloading. The plane was seen […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.30am. THEMBA Khoza, the leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party in Gauteng and a member of parliament, is as controversial in life as in death. The fiery politician, was suspected of inciting violence between rival black groupings before the fall of apartheid, died on Sunday. But the nature of his […]
BANKING group, Absa has announced low profit growth for the year ending March 31. Headline earnings grew by 1,0% to R1988-million, from last year’s R1968-million, and headline earnings per share increased by 0,2%. Operating expenditure increased by 7,1%. Low growth in operating income left the group’s cost-to-income ratio almost unchanged at 63,5%, from 63,3% last […]