LIFE assurer Sanlam plans to establish an online health insurance business. The company said in a statement that its new 100%-owned business unit, Cura, will offer insurance cover for medical risks over the internet. It said it is a first for SA. “The nature of the product will be of strong interest both to the […]
THE member states of the Economic Community of West African States plan to create a regional airline in the near future, a senior official said. The new company will be called Eco Air, Ecowas Executive Secretary Lassana Kouyate said on Sunday after meeting Malian President Alpha Oumar Konare, the current president of the economic bloc.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 10.45am. NCHANGA Rangers of Zambia snatched an early goal to defeat Domoina Soavino Atsimondrano 1-0 in Madagascar and reach the second round of the African Football Confederation Cup at the weekend. The intriguing clash was staged before a capacity 40000 crowd at the National Stadium in Antananarivo and settled […]
RICHARD Kaplan produced one of the Vodacom Tour’s most impressive final day comebacks to wipe out a five shot deficit on overnight leader Callie Swart and win the FNB Botswana Open, and a cheque for R28260, at the Gaborone Sun on Saturday. Kaplan began the day in joint 15th place on four-under par 138 and, […]
DOUBLE Olympic champion Michael Johnson ran a sparkling hand-timed 43,9 seconds for 400m to complete his spectacularly successful three-meet tour of South Africa on Friday. Johnson, world record-holder over 200 meters, 300 meters and 400 meters, started easily, and finished fast to reach his goal of a sub-44 second 400, even if it was a […]
DEPUTY President Jacob Zuma is attending the opening of the 17th world congress of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions’ in Durban. The confederation, with its 125 million members, has drawn over a 1000 trade union leaders for the congress titled “Globalising Social Justice in the 21st Century”. The participants will spend the week […]
DOUBLE Olympic champion Penny Heyns clocked the third-best time of her career in South Africa when she blitzed the 100m breaststroke heats at the Telkom national championships in Durban in 1min 07,84 seconds on Monday morning. The time is a second outside her world record. Julia Russell threw down the gauntlet to Sarah Poewe as […]
POLICE in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar and Pemba on Monday briefly detained opposition leader Seif Shariff Hamad. The privately-owned Alasiri tabloid reported that Hamad, secretary general of Zanzibar’s main opposition party, the Civic United Front, was detained shortly after the high court here adjourned the trial of 18 CUF members charged with treason. It […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Sydney | Tuesday 1.15pm. THE South African men’s field hockey team has a fortnight to try to convince the National Olympic Committtee of South Africa to reinstate the them in the Sydney Games. Captain Craig Jackson is not confident, coach Giles Bonnet is more upbeat and Australian coach Terry Walsh is wary. The […]
THE country’s wine crop is expected to dip 5,4% this year due to fires and unusually hot weather, but the percentage of sought-after reds is expected to increase, industry officials said on Monday. Yvette van der Merwe of the South African Wine Industry Information and Systems said she expects an 8,5% increase in the red […]