AT least 34 homes, a school and three game lodges have been destroyed by flooding in the Chiawa valley of the lower Zambezi following opening of spill gates at the giant Kariba Dam. Aid workers say maize fields along the river banks in the valley have been destroyed after the waters rose just over 5.1 […]
MINERALS and Energy Minister Phumuzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Friday announced PricewaterhouseCoopers as the consortium to advise government on restructuring the electricity distribution industry. Mlambo-Ngcuka said PricewaterhouseCoopers was selected above 16 other bidders to advise government on developing a comprehensive and integrated implementation strategy for the establishment of regional electricity distributors.
EGYPTIAN courts ordered 40 people remanded in custody on Monday after a student’s death crossing a road brought 3000 rioters onto the streets in clashes with police in which some 60 people were hurt. A total of 78 people were brought in for questioning after the rioting just north of the capital but the others […]
EMSIE FERRERIA, Cape Town | Tuesday 6.00pm ECONOMISTS said a stronger dollar rather than a weaker rand has precipitated the downward spiral in the local currency, which crashed through the the crucial R6,50 early Tuesday, only to recover by later afternoon. At one point in early trade the rand was heading for the R6,55 mark […]
DE BEERS on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for the construction of a R610-million diamond recovery plant in Kimberley. Announcing the project in Kimberley De Beers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer said: “The construction of this new Combined Treatment Plant (CTP) will have a significant positive impact on the life of the remaining Kimberley Mines, and the continued […]
ZIMBABWE’S former president Canaan Banana launched an appeal in the Supreme Court on Monday against his conviction and sentence for sex crimes. Banana was found guilty in December 1998 on several counts of homosexual assault and sodomy, mostly committed while he was president from 1980-1987. He was sentenced to an effective one year in jail […]
A LAST-gasp penalty by Casper Steyn secured victory for the Blue Bulls in a Vodacom Cup match against the Mpumalanga Pumas on Saturday. The Bulls led comfortably by 28-12 halfway through the second-half, but just when they thought they had it won the Pumas scored three tries. Geoff Appleford scored two and Frikkie Welsh grabbed […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday 11.40am. ZIMBABWE’s race-based land crisis has escalated with the invasion of more than 200 white-owned farms by thousands of people led by independence war veterans. The government and police should act immediately to prevent “an escalating state of anarchy,” said David Hasluck, director of the Commercial Farmers’ Union, representing commercial […]
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 […]