SIMON Gopane, who plays for Jomo Cosmos, will replace Brian Baloyi in Bafana’s World Cup play-off match against Lesotho after Baloyi failed to pass a fitness test at a practise session in Johannesburg on Wednesday. The Kaizer Chiefs keeper is pulled out of Sunday’s crucial first leg qualifier in Maseru after sustaining injuring at his […]
ECONOMISTS have warned that political stability in Zimbabwe is vital for South African businesses. Zimbabwe is South Africa’s largest trading partner in the region. The Star quotes economist Majakathtata Mokoena saying it is crucial for the South African government to help resolve the crisis before it spirals out of control.”We can’t afford instability in that […]
OIL prices rebounded slightly in London trading on Thursday, following the weakened prices of recent sessions. The price of Brent North Sea quality oil for May delivery was 33 cents higher at $24,08 dollars a barrel. In New York on Wednesday, the price of light sweet crude benchmark oil for delivery in May closed 38 […]
A BABY shot in her mother’s womb is fighting for her life after undergoing emergency surgery, the Star newspaper reports. Twenty three-year-old Leslie Ellerbeck was shot during a botched car-jacking near Johannesburg. She was eight months pregnant, and underwent a Caesarian section delivery. The baby, a girl, was first thought to have only a minor […]
A subsidiary of the World Bank, The International Finance Corporation (IFC), has bought a 10% stake in SA Home Loans, the group that revolutionized the mortgage loans market with its concept of securitisation. The new source of finance means that SA Home Loans will now be able to to make home loans available at further […]
THE rand, should recover strongly by the end of 2002, which is the horizon for the government’s newly-introduced inflation targets, Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni said on Tuesday. “The inflation target is set for the period between now and the end of the calender year 2002,” he said during radio phone-in show.”So in between that […]
MINISTER of Public Enterprises Jeff Radebe announced on Tuesday that former Eskom deputy CEO Bongani Khumalo has joined the Office of the Presidency. Khumalo will join the Deputy-President’s office and will be in charge of a strategy for rural development and an HIV/Aids awareness programme.
MORE than 800 children are killed by gunfire in South Africa each year, an anti-gun activist told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday. “The equivalent of an entire school is wiped out by guns each year,” David Newby, Western Cape chairman of Gun Free South Africa, told the National Assembly’s portfolio committee on education, quoting police […]
ARMY Commanders on Tuesday started negotiations in Kampala in an attempt to find solutions to the violation of the ceasefire agreement that was launched to restore peace to the war-torn country. The negotiations are being run under the auspices of the Joint Military Commission — an umbrella body formed last year following a Zambian-mediated peace […]
ABOUT 3000 trade unionists are expected to march through the streets of Durban on Wednesday, as part of the World March of Women against poverty and violence. The march is being organised jointly by the International Confederation of Free Trade Union, which is holding its 17th World Congress in Durban, and its South African affiliates, […]