MIKE Bernardo’s hopes of gaining local recognition as a boxer by winning the WBF heavyweight world title have backfired. Although Bernardo won the title on Friday night in Hungary, his opponent was not Wayne Llewellyn as earlier reported. Llewellyn, who is rated in the top ten in Britain, withdrew days before the bout due to […]
SEVEN miners have been killed in an explosion at the Beatrix No 1 shaft near Welkom in the Free State. A spokesman for Gold Fields said the explosion happened at about 3am on Monday morning, about 870m below the surface. It is unclear at the moment what caused the explosion. The names of the dead […]
MIKE Bernardo etched his name into the history books on Friday night, when he stopped Wayne Llewellyn in five rounds, in a WBF heavyweight world title fight staged in Hungary. By doing so Bernardo became the first man to win heavyweight world titles in both orthodox boxing and kick boxing. South Africa also now boasts, […]
AIDS is the biggest threat to development in Botswana, where about one in five of the 1,5-million population are Hiv positive, a government-sponsored study said on Monday. The report said nearly half of all households in Botswana probably have at least one member infected with the virus. Around one-quarter of households could be expected to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 2.20pm. SHARES in Brainware extended last week’s slide after the troubled tech company brought more bad news to the market when it announced that a pending funds injection deal has fallen through. By 11.30am, the counter had lost another 42% or three cents to hit a record low of four […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Monday 12.45pm. FORMER South African politician Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari and former South African politician Cyril Ramaphosa met British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday at the start of an IRA arms monitoring mission crucial to peace in Northern Ireland. The two men met Blair in his Downing Street office before […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 2.00pm. LEGISLATORS said on Friday they expect to move quickly on the formation of a new telecommunications and broadcasting regulator to replace the existing often criticised organisations. President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday signed into law an act allowing for the creation of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa), […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.30am. ALL eyes will be on the rand on Monday, after the currency touched fresh lows against the dollar last week. It was trading around R7,03 to the US currency in early trade on Monday. But Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said on Friday it is important for the bank […]
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday he is “very disappointed” by the failure of western nations to set up a rapid reaction force to intervene in the civil war in Sierra Leone. “I am disappointed, I would even say I am very disappointed, and I am not the only one,” Kofi said in an […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Mwanza | Sunday 4.00pm. PRESIDENTS Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda reaffirmed on Sunday a commitment to demilitarise the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Kisangani. In a joint statement, read to the media by Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa at the end of a one-day summit in the Lake […]