THE United Cricket Board of South Africa announced on Tuesday that it will back Bangladesh’s bid for Test status. The International Cricket Council will consider the application at their meeting in London next month. Acting UCBSA president Percy Sonn said in a statement: “We decided Bangladesh’s application is consistent with the ICC’s global (cricket development) […]
NELSPRUIT’S city council has threatened to cut the power supply to the police station and prison unless they settle almost over R300000 in unpaid bills. A similar threat for Mpumalanga’s health department to pay R500000 on Friday to prevent the province’s third biggest hospital, Rob Ferreira Hospital, from being plunged into darkness. The National Department […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 10.20am ASHLEY Mallett, a former Australian Test off-spinner who acted as an advisor for South Africa on its 1997-98 tour of Australia has raised even more suspiscion about Hansie Cronje and match fixing. Mallett, a spin-bowling advisor during the Proteas tour, has told South African cricket authorities of his […]
LUCIA MUTIKANI, Pretoria | Wednesday 1.00pm. PRODUCER prices rose at their highest rate in nearly five years in April, figures released on Wednesday show, due in large part to rising domestic prices. Statistics South Africa said recent petrol price hikes have largely been behind the increase. Producer costs rose 10,1% year-on-year, after an 8,6% increase […]
LUKE BAKER, Johannesburg | Tuesday 3.30pm. DIMENSION Data, the country’s leading IT group, is expected to win government approval for a primary London listing “imminently”, its chairman said on Tuesday.
STOCKS of export tobacco from Zimbabwe are at their lowest level in five years, a tobacco industry official said on Tuesday. But Zimbabwe Tobacco Association marketing director Pat Davis said the sector — the country’s top foreign exchange earner — could withstand the knocks caused by current political strife provided there was a return to […]
ALAN FINLAY & Reuters, Johannesburg | Monday 4.00pm. THE JSE slipped lower on Monday on the back of weaker Asian markets, worse-than-expected first quarter gross domestic product data, and Friday’s dip in US markets. The all-share finished 0,60% or 43 points lower. Industrials closed down 1,28% or 104 points and financials ended 0,74% or 65 […]
South African top seed Amanda Coetzer beat Spain’s Cristina Torrens-Valero 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 Sunday to win the 140,000-dollar WTA tennis event in Antwerp. Coetzer, the world number 11, beat an opponent way below her in the rankings at 80th in a match interrupted by rain. On clay made slower by the moisture, the first set […]
THE Zimbabwean government said on Monday that it expectes Zimbabwe to produce nearly 2,2-million mt of maize in the current farming year, up from the 1,5-million mt produced in 1999. However, a spokeswoman for the Commercial Grain Producers Association in Harare said that “at best” only 1,7-million mt of maize will be produced. She said […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kuala Lumpur | Tuesday 12.20pm. JAPAN has announced plans to send Asian experts to Africa to upgrade skills and help lift it out of poverty. Amongst the plans is a major IT skills injection into the continent. Yasuaki Nogawa, deputy director general of Japan’s Middle East and Africa bureau, said the country will […]