THE railway link between South Africa and Zimbabwe is to be reopened this week after flood-damage forced its closure five weeks ago, Spoornet said on Monday. Spokesman Mike Asefovitz a railway bridge and 14km of track washed away in the February floods has been replaced, and trains would resume running on Thursday. The line was […]
AFRICAN National Congress parliamentarian Peter Mokaba has been fighting a serious but as yet unnamed illness since October last year. The sickness has kept Mokaba, a member of the mineral and energy affairs portfolio committee, out of parliament for more than five months. Portfolio committee registers indicate he last attended a sitting on October 20 […]
THE South Deep joint venture and the National Union of Mineworkers have signed a long-awaited deal to bring labour peace to one of the country’s biggest gold mines. The agreement, which covers a wide range of operational issues, ends months of wrangling between the union and joint venture partners, Canadian miner Placer Dome and South […]
A JUDICIAL inquiry into South African cricket will only get going once an appropriate judge, who will head the inquiry, is identified — and depending on his or her availability. It was anticipated that the inquiry would get going on Monday. But Graham Abrahams, the spokesman for Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour told ZA*NOW on Monday […]
ALAN FINLAY, Johannesburg | Monday 8.00am. A JUDICIAL inquiry into South African cricket will only get going once an appropriate judge, who will head the inquiry, is identified — and depending on his or her availability. It was anticipated that the inquiry would get going on Monday. But Graham Abrahams, the spokesman for Sports Minister […]
BANKING group Nedcor is still keen to buy FBC Fidelity Holdings and could use the troubled domestic lender as a vehicle to separately list its mass-market People’s Bank, analysts said. Speculation has mounted in the South African media in recent weeks that the sale of FBC, placed in receivership last October following a run on […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Durban | Sunday 7.00pm. Lucky Kaizer Chiefs snatched a 1-0 Bob Save Super Bowl victory over Manning Rangers at Chatsworth Stadium on Sunday thanks to a moment of stealth from Siyabonga Nomvete. There appeared to be no immediate danger when Chiefs Namibian wingback Robert Nauseb held off a clumsy challenge from a Rangers […]
ALAN FINLAY, Johannesburg | Monday 10.00am. THE JSE followed Asian markets down and by mid-morning was trading nearly 6% lower following Friday’s carnage on Wall Street. Economists warned that it could slump as low as 10% on the opening of US markets later in the day. “The bottom will fall out. There’s not much to […]
FORMER Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda on Sunday joined senior Southern African Development Community (SADC) parliamentarians at a special church service in Cape Town to call for cancellation of Mozambique’s international debt. Kaunda told the gathering in St. George’s Cathedral that the debt largely stemmed from Mozambique’s fight against apartheid and racism. “It is now time […]
AT least 13 people were killed and 20 others wounded in the Jilib district of the Lower Juba region after fighting erupted between two Somali sub-clans at weekend. Gunmen from Galjel and those of Shikal, both belonging to the larger Hawiye clan, fought on Saturday and Sunday following a land dispute and incidents of banditry, […]