THE local maize industry said on Wednesday that it expects to export 800000 tons of maize during the next marketing year (2000/1). According to a survey some 690000 tons of white maize and 110000 tons of yellow maize will be exported. 1998/9 saw over a million tons of maize leave the country; half of the […]
CRUDE oil prices tumbled more than 8% on Wednesday amid indications that Iran will back plans by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) to raise production from April 1. At the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), April delivery crude oil futures settled at $31,26 per barrel, falling $2,87 or 8,4%on the day. The fall […]
STORMERS centre Robbie Fleck will miss three weeks of Super 12 action after an accidental collision during Saturday’s 22-18 loss to the Cats. Fleck saw a specialist in Cape Town, who advised him not to play until the Crusaders match on March 26.
IN the Eastern Cape, the Bisho government and a national state unit have joined forces against a fraudulent petrol card scheme said to be running into millions of rands. Last weekend a civil servant was arrested after allegedly using a government petrol card to fill up his own car. In another breakthrough, 16 petrol attendants […]
AMAZULU edge closer to relagation after being beaten 1-0 by Sundowns in their Premier Soccer League match at Loftus Stadium in Pretoria on Wednesday night. Sundowns had to start the game without a number of key players, and their first-half efforts were somewhat pedestrian, and the half-time score was 0-0. The defending champions went into […]
MOTHER City took no prisoners in their 4-0 demolition of Budeli Real Vultures in a Bobsave Superbowl match at Hartleyvale in Cape Town on Wednesday night. City led 2-0 at the break. The goals came through Makuka Makinta (two), Mimi Radebe and substitute Nzawetheti Nogwasa.
DUDU Nkosi, the former girlfriend of one fo South Africa’s most wanted men, alleged cash-heist kingpin Collin Chauke, is a free woman. On Wednesday she walked out of the Nelspruit Regional Court after being given a suspended sentence. She was found not guilty of defeating the ends of justice by harbouring Chauke until he was […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Sydney | Wednesday 10.30am. CATS’ coach Laurie Mains has added a second black player to his team for Saturday’s Super 12 match against New South Wales but denied the move was made to appease the South African Rugby Union. Mains, a former New Zealand coach, promoted black centre Mac Masina to his starting […]
A BABOON which climbed on electricity lines in a rural part of the Western Cape sparked a fire which destroyed at least six farms. Police Inspector Derik Petersen said a badly burnt baboon was found hanging on the electricity wires near the farming town of Porterville. He said police believed the baboon had caused the […]
FIVE more people have been killed despite a curfew on two rival communities fighting over land in southwest Nigeria, bringing the toll to 35 in one week. Nigeria’s northern states erupted recently when Muslims and Christians clashed over the imposition of the Islamic Sharia law. The five were killed on Wednesday at Ogunsola village following […]