JAPANESE riders Shinya Nakano (Yamaha) and Honda-mounted Dajiro Katoh and Tohru Ukawa totally dominated Sunday 250cc South African Grand Prix in Welkom to finish first, second and third respectively. Nakano easily led from start to finish, but his compatriots fought a race-long battle, before Katoh fought back to finish 0.8 seconds behind Nakano.
FINNISH mining and metals group Outokumpu said on Friday it would work with South African Gold Fields Limited in northern Finland to explore for and develop platinum group metals. It said Gold Fields had committed $1.5-million in exploration funding until the year’s end, with the option to take a 30% stake in the partnership by […]
SHARES in life insurer Fedsure took a tumble on Wednesday, extending a slide started on Monday when the insurer released financial results that fell short of market expectations. Fedsure posted a 20% increase in diluted earnings per share of 367,3 cents, below analysts’ forecasts of a consensus 398 cents as polled by independent agency Barra. […]
A FREE State farmer has been charged with the attempted murder of his domestic worker. Jacobus van Zyl, 22, of Uitsig farm near Bethlehem, allegedly attacked Malau Emily Malinga, 45, last Thursday. According to the police report he punched her in the face, kicked her and tried to drown her in a cattle drinking trough. […]
THE Democratic Republic of the Congo has dissolved the joint venture between state-owned cobalt producer Gecamines and Billy Rautenbach’s Ridgepointe Overseas Developments known as Central Mining Group, according to a March 14 decree from the ministry of mines. Concessions held by the joint venture — which include roughly half Gecamines’ annual output of 4000 tons […]
ETHIOPIAN Kutre Dulecha snatched victory on the line in the world cross country women’s short course race on Sunday after a finish in which the three medallists shared the same time. Dulecha, the world 1500m bronze medallist, made the early pace in the 4.18km race on the second and final day of the championships in […]
BIG-name outfits achieved satisfactory away results in the Cup Winners Cup with Canon Yaounde of Cameroon and Al-Merreikh of Sudan winning and Zamalek of Egypt and Royal Armed Forces of Morocco drawing. Canon triumphed 1-0 over Coast Stars in Kenya through a late first-half goal from Robert Jamamba and Abbas Zaki and Said Al-Zanzon had […]
ARGENTINA’S field hockey coach hit out at South Africa’s decision to withdraw from the Olympic Games even though his team will benefit the most from their absence. “Politics should not mix with sport,” Alejandro Verga said after Argentina defeated Japan 1-0 to take the seventh place in the Olympic qualifying tournament in Osaka. “We have […]
GRANT SHIMMIN, Pietersburg | Saturday 5.00pm. MICHAEL Johnson launched his Olympic campaign devastatingly on Saturday by clocking the fourth fastest 200 metres in history — 19.71 seconds — in his first race of the year. With an ideal following wind of 1.8 metres per second, the Texan raced away from a field that included South […]
AUSTRALIAN Garry McCoy withstood a furious final onslaught from Carlos Checa of Spain to register his first 500cc world championship success by winning the South African Grand Prix on Sunday. The Yamaha rider started the season-opener only ninth on the grid but snatched the lead from Checa with five of the 28 laps to go. […]