Andy Colquhoun in Couran Cove The gloves came off at training on Monday morning but it was a little later when they were followed to the earth by the blinkers that the Springboks’ season might just have taken a turn for the better. It was an edgy day. The Springboks had decamped from Melbourne to […]
DAVID MAGERIA | Nairobi | Thursday 10.30am. EGYPT insisted it would not lift a newly introduced duty on Kenyan tea until Kenya applied preferential regional tariffs to all Egyptian exports. Egypt imposed higher duties on Kenya’s tea last week in the latest eruption of a trade dispute between the two countries. The move followed Nairobi’s […]
Claire Bezuidenhout review OFTHEWEEK ‘The XIII International Aids Conference theme, ‘Break the silence’, is an acknowledgement of the many silences which surround HIV/Aids – from the silence of communities which obstruct acceptance and disclosure, to silences which prevail across the nations estranged by colossal inequities and divided by towering debts,” reads the press release for […]
MARIAM ISA, Johannesburg | Thursday 10.30am. SOUTH Africa’s Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said she will challenge a high court order delaying her approval of the winning bidder of the country’s third mobile phone licence. In documents set to be presented to the court on Friday, Matsepe-Casaburri will argue that an interdict preventing her from acting […]
A new organisation has been launched to promote and encourage film-makers in Southern Africa, Andrew Worsdale reports.
REUTERS, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.15pm. SOUTH Africa could harvest a near-record sugar cane crop this summer and the industry has secured its important Far East markets, according to the cane growers’ association and the latest edition of the South African Sugar Journal. Quality problems and a poor ratio of cane to sucrose pointed to the […]
Government is sticking to its growth forecast despite a low first quarter growth rate of 0.9 percent. Finance director general, Maria Ramos said the lower than expected first-quarter growth rate was largely due to the performance of agriculture although a bumper maize crop should raise the performance of this sector and allow for an overall […]
LUCIA MUTIKANI, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.30am. Japan’s Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) is to invest about R180m in a catalytic converter plant in South Africa next year. TMC President Fujio Cho said a joint venture between Toyota South Africa and Cataler Corporation would start production in the latter half of 2001 with an initial annual output […]
REUTERS, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.45pm. ZIMBABWE’S Chamber of Mines fear that 90 percent of the country’s gold mines were at risk due to a critical shortage of foreign exchange. The warning came as another Zimbabwean gold mine, suspended operations due to unsustainable losses. ”At least 90 percent of our gold mines are at risk if […]
A MUSLIM rebel chief holding 20 mostly foreign hostages told the government he is ready to resolve the nearly three-month-long hostage crisis, the Philippines’ chief negotiator said on Tuesday. Presidential adviser Roberto Aventajado, head of Manila’s negotiating team, said rebel commander Galib Andang called him using the satellite phone of a three-member French television crew […]