PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki, in London to discuss the Zimbabwe crisis, discussed bilateral ties with Prime Minister Tony Blair and won a pledge from Blair for the training of an elite South African police unit. The 500000 programme will train 100 officers from the Scorpions investigation unit set up by Mbeki last year to help combat […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Cape Town | Saturday 6.30pm. ANDRE Vos is the new Springbok captain in the 28-man squad named on Saturday night by Sarfu President Silas Nkanunu to play a home Test against Canada and two against England next month. Vos, who has previous led the Springboks in last year’s World Cup game against Spain […]
While Ang Lee’s Ride with the Devil tends towards the intimate, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator is triumphantly epic in every way, writes Shaun de Waal.
THE Mozambican woman who gave birth in a tree during the February floods left for the United States on Tuesday to raise funds for her baby. Mozambican ambassador to the US, Marcos Namashulua said a fund-raising campaign had been arranged in New York for Sofia Pedro Chijivuri and her baby, Rosita. The event is being […]
THE South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has appointed corporate financial consultants Grant Thornton Kessel Feinstein to oversee the business plans of the six bidders for the third cellular licence. The consultants are expected to assess the bidder’s plans and to draft a report for the regulatory authority. GTKF hopes to submit a report to Satra […]
UGANDA is working on a programme to re-introduce the rhinoceros, poached to extinction over 10 years ago, Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC) officials said on Thursday. UWEC, which deals with the preservation of endangered wildlife species in Uganda, has consequently launched an appeal for up to $100,000 dollars, required for the initial restocking. An official […]
AVIS Southern Africa announced on Thursday that it has agreed in principle to acquire the Avis car rental operations in Norway and Sweden as part of a geographical expansion strategy. At the same time, it announced it has lifted headline earnings per share by 24% to 73,3 cents for the year to March. The group […]
MINERALS and petroleum group Sasol has raised its stake from 34% to 49% in the $780-million gas-to-liquids project with Qatar General Petroleum Corp. Sasol took up the 15% stake surrendered by US oil company Phillips Petroleum, who dropped out of the Middle East’s first GTL project to focus on its other ventures in the Gulf […]
ANGOLAN troops mounted an attack on Zambian soldiers in April, but only in an effort to defend their territory from an incursion by Zambian forces, the Angolan embassy in Lusaka said on Thursday. A group of 24 Zambian soldiers crossed the frontier into its western neighbour on April 27 and engaged in a gunfight with […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Friday 10.00am. CORRIE Sanders steps into the ring on Friday night in Atlantic city in possibly the most important fight of his fistic career to date. He makes the fourth defence of his WBU heavyweight world title against Hassim Rahman, in a bout broadcast live by American television giant HBO. With […]