A SHIPMENT of diamonds from Angola has been seized by Belgian authorities in Antwerp at the request of De Beers,, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The shipment of rough diamonds was destined for De Beers’s rival, the Angola Selling Corporation (Ascorp). De Beers has said it has contracts to buy all the diamonds from […]
TWO Johannesburg policemen were killed in an accident on Empire Road early on Thursday morning. Captain Iwo Liut, 35, and Sergeant Jaque Rabie, 29, were involved in a high speed chase when they lost control of their car, which plunged off the N1 highway onto Empire Road near Wits University. Paramedics battled for hours at […]
ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Paarl | Thursday 9.00am. BOLAND beat Eastern Province by 36 runs in Paarl to win the Standard Bank Cup, the province’s first trophy in senior cricket. Boland made 209/6 in their 45 overs after winning the toss and then restricted EP to 173/8 in reply. Boland based their score around a fine half […]
NIGERIA’s privatisation agency said on Thursday it is reopening bidding for 64,8-million government shares in oil marketer African Petroleum whose earlier sale prompted a parliamentary inquiry. The government said last week it was selling the shares to Sadiq Petroleum Ltd, a little-known oil marketing company, which has agreed to pay 33,00 naira per share or […]
KING Lebone Molotlegi of the Bafokeng has died in a Sandton clinic, after being admitted there earlier this month with lung and kidney failure. Under the rule of the 35-year-old king, the 300_ooo strong Bakokeng managed to develop their infrastructure near Rustenburg without government assistance with their shares in the Impala Platinum mines. Last year […]
AT least 60 people have died after two buses collided at Kericho in western Kenya on Wednesday. Police say the two buses, belonging to Akamba and Shaggy bus companies, collided head-on at Kapkatunga near Kericho town and burst into flames on impact. Seriously injured passengers were taken to hospitals in Kericho.
ZIMBABWE’S Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the commissioner of police to investigate allegations that two journalists were tortured after reporting a coup plot against President Robert Mugabe. Chief Justice Anthony Gubbay ordered commissioner Augustine Chihuri to investigate the claims and prosecute all suspects. The journalists, Standard newspaper editor Mark Chavunduka and reporter Ray Choto, applied […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Sharjah | Thursday 11.20am. THERE is only one thing standing between South Africa and victory in the Sharjah Cup final, and it travels somewhere in the region of 150km/h over 22 yards of pitch, giving one unlucky enough to be in its way a breath short of a second to decide what to […]
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MORE than 40000 jobs in the formal business sector, excluding agriculture, were lost between September and December last year, the government’s Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. The total employment in the sector fell by 2,5% or 121,476 employees for the whole of last year. These figures exclude self-employed people who are not registered for […]