THE former boyfriend of television presenter Tracy Going, Richard Latham, has been fined R5000 in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court. Latham assaulted Going during their relationship and maliciously damaged her car. Latham also received a five-year suspended sentenceon condition that he agrees to drug rehabilitation and periodic urine tests. In one particular incident that was widely […]

SOME 60 National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa members downed tools at Amplats’ Rustenburg base metal refinery on Thursday, mine spokesman Johan Adler said. The strike follows a deadlock in salary negotiations between mine management and the 291 Numsa members at the refinery. Adler said the mine offered an 8% increase but Numsa demanded […]

SCORES of Egyptian girls in Kano, northern Nigeria, on Monday continued their seige of the hotel housing the Egyptian football team. The girls, autograph hunters in their teens and early twenties, lurked around the hotel’s reception hall with the hope of getting the players’ attention. Some of the Egyptian players not only granted autographs but […]

AMPLATS announced on Tuesday that it has resolved a wage dispute at its Rustenburg Base Metals Refiners with the National Union of Mineworkers but that the dispute with the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) continues. The company and NUM agreed on Monday afternoon to an 8% wage increase, backdated to January 1, Amplats senior manager […]

BANKS could nearly double profits and cut bank charges by 15% if they could win the battle against bank crime, The Star reports. In 1999, R68-million was stolen in bank robberies. According to the paper, crime committed at ATMs cost R55-million and fraud estimated to cost about R4-billion a year. In 1998, banks made a […]

MORE than 400 lecturers and researchers at Zambia’s largest state-run university have gone on an indefinite strike in protest against the non-payment of their January salaries, a senior union official said on Thursday. University of Zambia lecturers and researchers union vice-president Douglas Syakalima, said, that academic staff at the institution decided to strike late on […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Tuesday 9.35am. TEENAGER Julius Aghahowa was the two-goal hero as title favourites Nigeria overcame outsiders Senegal 2-1 after extra time on Monday in the last African Nations Cup quarter-final. This sets up Bafana Bafana with a semi-final showdown on Thursday against Nigeria, who refused to defend the cup they lifted the […]

THE head of the Nigerian government agency responsible for overseeing the troubled telecommunications sector has been suspended, the newspaper This Day reported on Thursday. Emma Nnama, who is chief executive officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) was questioned by security agents for 30 minutes in his office Wednesday after his suspension, the paper said. […]

MOROCCAN coach Henri Michel resigned on Monday after his team’s disappointing showing in the African Nations Cup. Michel, the former French coach who steered Morocco in the 1998 World Cup, has been vilified by the Moroccan media for the Atlas Lion’s disappointing showing, and their elimination in the group stages. They narrowly beat lowly Congo […]

ZIMBABWE exported minerals worth Z$11,4-billion in 1999, up by 62,8% on the previous year’s total earnings of Z$7-billion, state-run Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe said. The figure excludes earnings from gold, whose sale was handled by the central bank, and asbestos which was marketed independently by a company which mined it. Total mineral earnings in […]