AFRICAN EYE NEWS, Pietersburg | Tuesday A TEAM from the American space agency NASA has arrived at the Pietersburg International Airport in preparation for a science initiative to monitor the earth’s environment and atmosphere. Airport corporate relations manager Howard Khosa said a Washington University Convair 580 transport plane will soon be joined by two more […]
THE SA Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) has thrown its weight behind beleaguered Springbok rugby coach Nick Mallett, dismissing a notion that he has been given an ultimatum to win the team’s next two games. Former Western Province coach, Harry Viljoen, was touted as Mallett’s possible successor in the wake of the Springboks’ four successive Test […]
REUTERS, Johannesburg | Tuesday South Africa-based African Gem Resources Ltd (Afgem) debuts on the Johannesburg bourse today and will use the capital it raises on developing its tanzanite mine and other projects. Afgem’s chief executive Mike Nunn said the gem stone miner, would use funds raised by free-floating 40 percent of the company to develop […]
SWAZILAND’S 32-year-old King Mswati III has secretly wed his seventh wife, an 18-year-old woman who became the centre of controversy when a newspaper labelled her a “dropout”. Mswati married Liphovela Senteni Masango, selected at last year’s annual ritual in which maidens dance for him, in a traditional ceremony last week. Masango was the centre of […]
TELEVISION entertainer Tolla van der Merwe was killed in a car accident near Belfast on Monday morning. Mpumalanga police said Van der Merwe died soon after being admitted to a Middelburg hospital at 7am. Television producer Ollie Viljoen and Afrikaans story-teller Koos Meyer were also seriously injured in the accident. Viljoen’s wife Estelle was killed […]
THE strong chance that South African Airways (SAA) will list on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and perhaps even on an international bourse, is seen as a good reason for Swiss Air to exercise its option to buy a further stake in the airline. Last November it bought a 20% stake in SAA for R1.4bn and […]
BANKING group Nedcor has shrugged off its failed bid to acquire larger rival Stanbic by reporting an increase in attributable income by 27% to R1.23bn for the first six months of the year. This translated into earnings per share increase of 25% from 415 cents to 517 cents. Nedcor was the only major South African […]
THE government could spend more than R800m on four new maritime patrol helicopters in addition to the country’s R30bn arms package, a local newspaper reported. The Cabinet, the paper said, will decide whether Armscor will be given the go ahead to finalise a helicopter purchase with British arms marker GKN Westland or possibly re-issue the […]
IN an attempt to put to rest a row last month over French comments on forthcoming elections, Ivory Coast’s army ruler, General Robert Guei, praised former colonial power France as the most loyal of friends. “Amongst our friends, right at the front, let us mention France, the most loyal of the loyal, which has not […]
PAUL KIRK and NIKI MOORE, Durban | Friday 9.40am. AFRICAN National Congress MP Bheki Mkhize, killed in a police raid on his home at Mahlabathini, near Ulundi, was shot through his open palm – an indication, say the provincial ANC leadership, that he was killed while trying to surrender. While the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) […]