THE total turnover of institutions increased by 3,0% in fourth quarter 1999 to R362,62-billion from the fourth quarter 1998 level of R351,99-billion, according to figures released Tuesday by Statistics South Africa. However, Stats SA said fourth quarter 1999 turnover was 12,8% down on the R416,07-billion recorded in third quarter 1999. It said Gauteng contributed 44,7% […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has congratulated Vladimir Putin on his election as Russian president, saying he believed Russia would continue to play a major role in international affairs. Mbeki said South Africa and Russia had both gone through momentous change during the past decade but that many great challenges still lay ahead for both countries and […]
JAMES Loughnane, the Cape Town professional who plays under the Irish flag, won the R500000 Zambia Open for the second time in three years after clawing his way past overnight leader Bradford Vaughan at the very last hole of the tournament. Loughnane finished on 18 under-par after a fourth sub-70 round in a row, with […]
AN unofficial report alleging Rwandan strongman Paul Kagame’s involvement in the 1994 assassination of his country’s president has been found in United Nations files, a UN source said on Monday. The source says “the so-called report” had been written by Michael Hourigan, a former investigator for the international Rwandan war-crimes tribunal in Arusha, and was […]
THE Finance Ministry reported “enthusiastic demand” on onday for a further $750-million in 9,125% global dollar bonds maturing in 2009. The total issue now stands at $1,25-million. Lead managers are Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. “The department of finance is very pleased with the enthusiastic demand for the bond,” it said in a […]
ALAN FINLAY & Reuters, Johannesburg | Monday 4.45pm. THE JSE ended firmer on Monday with only resources taking a bit of knock finishing 0,22% or 11 points down. Overall share prices held onto last week’s gains, ending 0,42% or 34 points up. Dealers said the market moved against the trend of softer key European bourses, […]
UGANDAN forensic experts extended a gruesome investigation on Tuesday into a doomsday sect which appears to have murdered more than 500 people in a church blaze and other mass killings in Uganda. Police in Mbarara in the south west of the country said that doctors and criminal investigators are to inspect three new sites on […]
THE government said on Monday it plans to privatise its special risk insurer, Sasria, and invited tenders for advisers for the transaction. The government, working on a tight programme to wrap-up the privatisation of R170-billion worth of state assets by 2004, said in a newspaper advertisment it has resolved to dispose of its entire interest […]
ANGLICAN Archbishop Desmond Tutu will meet Norway’s King Harald and its new prime minister while a guest of the Lutheran Church in Oslo next month. Tutu, the 1984 Nobel peace prizewinner and former Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which has investigated crimes under Apartheid, will be visiting Norway from April 1 to 4. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 3.00pm. BAFANA Bafana coach Trott Moloto left out key European-based players and called up five new faces when he named his squad on Tuesday for next week’s World Cup qualifier against Lesotho. Moloto said he wants to concentrate on developing domestic-based talent for a heavy schedule of matches in […]