Homechoice Holdings Ltd said on Monday the South African Revenue Service (SARS) has demanded R31-million in customs duty and value added tax and fines from the retail group over an alleged breach of trade rules. Homechoice said in a note to its annual results that SARS had demanded a R10-million payment and that a further […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Tuesday 5.30pm ASHANTI Goldfields of Ghana said it has clinched a $100-million loan and extended an existing $270-million credit facility, resolving its cash crisis. Ashanti announced the signature of agreements covering a new $100-million debt facility to complete its Geita gold mining project in Tanzania, as well as extending a $270-million […]

GHANA on Saturday qualified for the Euro-Africa Zone three tournament when they took an unbeatable 2-0 lead over Andorra in the semi-finals of the Davis Cup Zone Four competition at the Accra Sports Stadium tennis courts. Frank Ofori beat Jean Baptiste Poux 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 while Gunther Darkey defeated Joan Jimenez 6-2, 6-4. In the […]

POLISH archeologists have found the ruins of a large Egyptian temple in Sudan dating from the New Kingdom era of 1580-1085 B.C. The ruins run for some 500 meters along the right bank of the Nile at Hudjeir Gubli, near El Arak, with walls 107 centimeters thick and fragments of columns measuring 200-250 centimeters in […]

GHANA’S Black Meteors football team beat Guinea 2-0 in their third group one match at the Accra Sports stadium on Saturday to stay in contention for a place in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Godwin Ablordey and substitute Nana Arhin-Dua scored for the Meteors in the fourth and 69th minutes respectively. The win gives Ghana […]

AJAX Cape Town showed their class at Greenpoint Stadium in Cape Town on Sunday when they steamrollered Classic 3-0 in a Castle Premiership match. Ajax lead 1-0 at half-time. Classic did not play to their best abilities, and were fortunate not to have conceded more goals. David Kannemeyer scored Ajax’s first goal in the 30th […]

IT seems unlikely that the state will be able to claim back more than R100000 from former Arts, Culture, Science and Technology deputy minister Winnie Madikizela-Mandela for unauthorised expenses relating to overseas travel, because too much time has lapsed. That’s according to chief parliamentary law adviser Anton Meyer, who explained the issue to the Standing […]

JOHNNY Jooste, suspected of killing his wife, two children and four other relatives on a farm in the Koue Bokkeveld in the Western Cape on Sunday morning, has apeared in the Ceres Magistrate’s Court. No charges were put to him and the hearing was postponed to March 13 for further investigation. Jooste, 35, handed himself […]

A WEEKEND health report on Southern Africa estimates that more than 36 million people in the region are HIV-positive. The report was released on Saturday and says one in five people in the region could be affected, including 25% of women going to antenatal clinics in the Southeren African Development Community. “By virtue of its […]

A TODDLER has been beaten to death by his mother’s lover on an Mpumalanga farm. Bancho Malepe, 3, died on his mother’s bed on Rietfontein 7 farm, near Lydenburg. She is a farm worker. Police say the the assaults began on Sunday afternoon. Then the man slapped the child several times after midnight. At about […]