TROPICAL cyclone Gloria and Eline have killed 130 in Madagascar, and left thousands homeless. Gloria, which hit Madagascar last weekend, killed at least 66 while Eline killed 64 mid-February, authorities said. The UN has warned that Madagascar could be next in line for international aid on the scale being received by Mozambique. The thousands left […]
WALLABY captain John Eales will be out of rugby for up to six weeks after tests on Monday confirmed he has suffered a fractured eye socket. Eales was injured in a head clash with Queensland Reds teammate Sean Hardman in last Saturday’s 43-25 Super 12 loss to Wellington in New Zealand. “There is a fracture […]
THREE Dutch tourists have been murdered by “armed bandits” in a remote desert region of northern Mali. Security forces found the bodies and arrested four people in a search of the area known as the Tessalit circle, some 2000km north of the capital. While such attacks on vehicles are not uncommon, no foreigners have been […]
THE former head of apartheid’s security police, General Johan Coetzee, on Tuesday said he had no prior knowledge of a bloody cross-border raid by police into neighbouring Lesotho in 1985. Coetzee told a TRC hearing in Pretoria that at the time of the raid he was on holiday. “I did not know about the raid […]
CHINA will invest $200-million in a Zambian mine as part of Beijing’s effort to ensure a stable supply of raw materials, an official said on Wednesday. Officials said the rehabilitation of the Chambishi copper mine is at an advanced stage and production is expected to resume later this year. The Chinese group bought an 85% […]
NICOLE MORDANT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.00pm DIAMOND giant De Beers on Wednesday posted a 40% increase in annual rand earnings per share and predicted that it will at least match its 1999 gem sales in the current year. The company made no comment in its earnings statement on the future of its stake in mining […]
THE Cape Town Regional Court on Tuesday morning turned down an application to withdraw the R500000 bail granted last November to Italian millionaire Vito Palazzolo. The Directorate for Public Prosecutions launched an application to have Palazzolo’s bail annulled on grounds that he has become a ”flight risk”. Palazzolo was last week given seven days by […]
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DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.30pm. WHEN former no.1 WBA contender Henry Akinwande fought in South Africa two weeks ago he was still suffering from the hepatitis B virus, but didn’t undergo a medical, a United States hearing has revealed. A medical is required by law to be done on a boxer prior to a […]
ABSA Bank said on Monday it will form a joint venture with local information technology firm Advanced Software Technologies in the desktop outsourcing market. “Based on a five year contract with Absa of between R350-million and R400-million per annum, the new company will have an annual annuity revenue that is expected to grow from an […]