A PANEL of legal experts will decide the future of South African cricketers Herschelle Gibbs, Henry Williams and Pieter Strydom after publication of an interim report on match-fixing next week, United Cricket Board (UCB) managing director Ali Bacher said. Judge Edwin King is due to submit the interim report to President Thabo Mbeki on August […]
The offerings at the Iranian Film Festival open a window into Iranian society, and Iranians. It is, however, a shame that much of the minutest details will inevitably be lost on film-goers who will not understand their relationship with the wider plot. From the ritual of buying a goldfish for Nowruz or new year, in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10:15am NATIONAL Sorghum Breweries (NSB), one of South Africa’s first black-owned companies, has for a first time in years shown a profit. Jaishankar Ramchandran, a representative of the Indian industrial group, United Breweries (UB), NSB’s largest shareholder, said a reduction in overheads, increased productivity and capacity utilisation had resulted in […]
Former president Nelson Mandela said the late Kobie Coetsee was a great South African who had not yet been accorded his rightful place among the patriots and had contributed to the peaceful transition in the country. Coetsee, 69, a former Justice Minister who served under both PW Botha and FW de Klerk, died early on […]
THE Department of Trade and Industry has set up a special task team to assist local companies export goods into the United States market. This will kick into action once the new African Growth and Opportunities Act comes into effect. Faizel Ismail, the department of Trade and Industry’s deputy director, said that the team’s task […]
An Egyptian team is traveling to New York to participate in the latest phase of the probe into the causes of crash last October of an EgyptAir Boeing 767, an official of the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority said. All 217 people on board the aircraft were killed. The team, made up of ECAA officials, will […]
ST HELENA Bay could soon have a sponge cloth production plant as part of a project worth R100m. Norwegian company Kongsfoss Norge, is planning to move its sponge-cloth production plant from Norway to the South African west coast town, creating between 70 and 80 job opportunities. St Helena Bay was chosen as the best spot […]
A SOUTH African firm said it aimed to set up a new completely electronic national stock market before 2001 to rival the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). The new exchange which is to offer trading, clearing and settlement services to the securities industry, will apply to the Financial Services Board for an operating license in September […]
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are getting married in Malibu, California, this weekend. About 200 guests have been invited to the ceremony, which will take place in a mansion overlooking the sea.