NEW South Wales have dumped former South African skipper Tiaan Strauss and Australian secondrower Tom Bowman for their Super 12 rugby union match against Canterbury in Christchurch on Friday. Strauss was named on the bench when the team was announced on Wednesday while Bowman’s manager John Fordham has threatened Bowman may look elsewhere for a […]
MOZAMBIQUE police arrested four people who allegedly stole about 8,5km of electric cables that feed power to the Mozal smelter south-west of Maputo. The cables were stolen last week and not all of them have been recovered, Maputo provincial police spokesperson, Joao Machava said on Wednesday. He said that police seized some highly sophisticated equipment […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday 2.00pm. ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe issued a sharp warning to whites on Wednesday that war veterans occupying their farms are there to stay, as he launched the election manifesto of his ruling Zanu-PF party. He has also declared that his government wants to seize half of the country’s white-owned farmland. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.40pm GOLD and resources stock stole the limelight on the markets on Wednesday, ending with sturdy gains in an otherwise softer market, troubled by a fall in the rand to near all-time lows on the dollar and softer international equity markets. Commodity counters clock up hefty gains thanks to healthy […]
JOHN MEHAFFEY, London | Wednesday 1.20pm INTERNATIONAL Cricket Council delegates dismissed corruption allegations against their president Jagmohan Dalmiya at the start of a two-day meeting on Tuesday to discuss the match-fixing crisis rocking the sport. At a media briefing after the first day of the emergency meeting, ICC chief executive David Richards said Dalmiya played […]
SHAREHOLDERS of financial group Liberty Life on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for its name to be changed to Liberty Group. The company said this will better reflect the broader financial services business mix it offers. The name change will come into effect after JSE approval.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Tuesday 5.40pm THE Reserve Bank said it hopes to hand over a report outlining its recommendation on Nedcor’s hostile takeover bid for Standard Bank to Finance Minister Trevor Manuel this week. ”We have after consultation with the Competition Commission and input from the various banks concerned…written a report making our recommendation,” […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Tuesday 8.00pm. MILITANT self-styled war veterans waited in their hundreds outside the High Court in Harare the entire day on Tuesday, while their leader, Chenjerai Hitler Hunzvi, stood trial for alleged fraud. The veterans, joined by youths dressed in T-shirts of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party, cheered […]
FIVE Kenyan soldiers with the UN peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone were abducted on Tuesday from the eastern town of Magburaka by former rebels, UN officials in Freetown said, after announcing an unspecified number of UN soldiers had been kidnapped in two other attacks. Force commander Vijay Jetley said in a statement on the other […]
ZIMBABWE’S premier trade show opened on Monday in Bulawayo, the country’s second largest city, with almost half of its usual foreign exhibitors absent this year. The number of foreign countries whose firms are represented has dropped from 28 last year to 17 this year, Graham Rowe, the general manager of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair […]