SOUTH AFRICA’S heavyweight gold shares took centre stage on Tuesday as bullion jumped to its strongest levels in more than two years, but the rest of the market traded sideways weighed by soggy overseas markets.
SOUTH AFRICAN Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni said on Tuesday the testimony of private banks at the government’s rand inquiry had left the impression that the banks had something to hide.
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NIGERIAN dealers dominate the cocaine trade which has exploded in South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994, according to a report by the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies. “Cocaine and crack cocaine were not commonly available in South Africa (prior to 1994) … This market vacuum was filled when Nigerian nationals arrived in […]
THROUGHOUT much of the world, pyjamas are generally the business of, and seen by, yourself and your loved ones alone. But not in Shanghai. Any time of the day or night, at virtually any time of the year, a casual stroll through the streets of the eastern Chinese city will give the tourist a visual […]
SEABIRD killer Francina Minnie (17) was sentenced to six months in prison on Monday for failing to fulfil a community supervision sentence.
FORMER president Nelson Mandela will not visit the Libyan imprisoned for 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, his representative said on Monday
A CHINA Northern Airlines plane carrying 112 passengers and crew has crashed into the sea off the coast of northeast China, with all on board feared dead, officials and state media said on Wednesday.
ZIMBABWE?S economy shrank by 7,3% last year, Finance Minister Simba Makoni told parliament on Tuesday, in a speech that appealed for government to end the political violence wracking the nation.
BRITAIN’S WBC and IBF heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis has labelled Mike Tyson an imbecile and says he is acting like a ”cartoon character”.