AFP, Harare | Tuesday HOPES of an immediate resumption of aid to Zimbabwe by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are far-fetched because the government remained defiant on “non-negotiable” conditions. The nation’s leading opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said that following their meeting with the visiting IMF team, it appeared unlikely aid would […]

RUGBY supremo Louis Luyt has lodged a high court application to have Golden Lions Rugby Union’s (GLRU) chief executive officer Johan Prinsloo removed as a director of the Ellis Park Stadium (Pty) Ltd and as a trustee of the Golden Lions Sport Trust. Luyt has accused Prinsloo of conspiring against the union. The court is […]

A YOUNG Northern Province couple have been arrested after their newborn baby boy was thrown to the ground and its father jumped on it several times. The battered body was then thrown into a pit toilet. Police said the mother had given birth along a river, with the father present, and that once it was […]

PALEONTOLOGISTS are hoping that a 700 000-year-old human tooth discovered near Cornelia in the north-eastern Free State will shed more light on a little known period of human prehistory. The “extremely big” and white upper molar of an archaic ancestor of modern man was found in layer of mud in a pit that is believed […]

ELLIS MNYANDU, Johannesburg | Tuesday PLANS for a national strike remained in place despite strong expectations of progress in the wage talks between the 12 public sector unions and government. Thembela Khulu, a spokeswoman for the Department of Public Service and Administration, said the state is to meet unions for further talks to try to […]

SHELL South Africa has entered into a joint venture deal with a black-controlled petroleum group Tepco to supply aviation fuel at Cape Town International Airport. This is Thebe Petroleum Corporation’s (Tepco) first foray into supplying jet fuel. Thebe Investments owns 70% of Tepco. South African Airways (SAA) said it envisaged entering into a deal through […]

VIRGIN Atlantic Airways said it will launch a second London-Cape Town service using an Airbus Industrie A340 with effect from October 29. The new service which departs Heathrow at 1700 on Sundays and arrives at 0600 the next day will also allow cargo to be cleared and delivered on the Monday. Virgin Atlantic chairman, Richard […]

AS THE price of South African petrol increases by six cents a litre this week, the international crude price continues to soar. Overheated oil markets roared higher still at the beginning of the week as dealers grew convinced that any OPEC supply increase agreed at an imminent policy meeting would fail to tame runaway prices. […]

THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange will begin its move to relocate to its new building in Sandton from September 23 and expects to complete this by the end of the month. Along with many other of the country’s financial houses, the JSE is moving out of the Johannesburg city centre due to the high crime rate. […]

THE United States has imposed trade sanctions against Swaziland after months of haggling about industrial relations concerns, say the small southern African kingdom’s two main business organisations. The Federation of Swaziland Employers and the Swaziland Chamber of Commerce and Industry warned in a joint statement that the country’s strategic industries would be the worst hit […]