OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 2.00pm. ATHLETICS South Africa has hit back at the National Olympic Committee of South Africa after a weekend report, quoting Nocsa secretary-general Dan Moyo, claimed financial mismanagement within ASA. Banele Sindani, ASA chief executive, responded to the claims by saying that Nocsa is attempting to discredit his organisation, and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.30pm NEDCOR Investment Bank on Wednesday posted a 25% rise in earnings, helped in part by a lower tax charge, but suggested that plans to find an international partner might have been put on the back burner. NIB, whose parent Nedcor Ltd listed 15% of its shares on the Johannesburg […]

MOZAMBICAN President Joaquim Chissano appointed two new cabinet ministers and 15 deputy ministers on Tuesday. The appointments follow Chissano’s election victory in December, when his Frelimo party narrowly beat the opposition Renamo with 133 to 117 parliamentary seats. Chissano himself only narrowly managed to retain the presidency after winning 52.3% of the presidential vote against […]

INFORMATION technology firm Spicer Holdings Ltd on Tuesday warned that its first half earnings had been adversely affected by a number of factors, including the discovery of management misconduct. “Gross management irregularities at a senior management level, the precise nature of which is currently under investigation, have been discovered in MIS-CDS Group Holdings Ltd and […]

TWO weeks after a Kenya Airways jet plunged into the sea off Cote d’Ivoire, the cause of the crash remains a mystery as the plane’s black box sits in a sealed container in Abidjan. Director of Cote d’Ivoire’s civil aviation authority Jean Kouassi Abonoua said that the flight data recorder, retrieved from the debris in […]

THE World’s best fielder, Jonty Rhodes, has made himself available for his home KwaZulu-Natal province in this weekend’s Standard Bank Cup game at Kingsmead. The mercurial cricketer chose to stay at home to be with his wife when their first child is born instead of joining the two-Test tour to India. While he said he’ll […]

KENYA has sent out an emergency appeal for food aid, saying that it needs about 4,5-billion shillings to combat a looming food shortage. According to a document signed by the head of public service and secretary to the cabinet, Richard Leakey, an average of 20000 metric tons of food are now required in the affected […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 12.30pm. BAFANA and Bolton Wanderers defender Mark Fish says he quit because he was accused of being a rascist. Fish said on Monday that a number of journalists launched a campaign to label him a racist after he allegedly had words with Bafana coach Trott Moloto. The multi-capped player told […]

FORMER South African Test paceman Tertius Bosch died in a Durban hospital on Sunday after a long illness. He was a month short of his 34th birthday. Bosch played in one test, against West Indies in Bridgetown in 1992, which marked South Africa’s return to the test arena after the dismantling of apartheid. He returned […]

FORMER Mpumalanga premier Mathews Phosa has withdrawn a R1-million civil defamation suit against his successor Ndaweni Mahlangu at the urging of senior African National Congress leaders. The two antagonists confirmed they buried the hatchet in a joint statement on Tuesday after a weekend meeting chaired by ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe. Phosa lodged the defamation […]