DUDU Nkosi, the lover of alleged cash-heist kingpin, Collin Chauke, pleaded not guilty in the Nelspruit Regional Court on Wednesday to defeating the ends of justice and to seven of 10 fraud charges against her. Nkosi told the court she was convinced Chauke was Max Shirhami Zikhale and that she had no reason to doubt […]

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.00pm. WORLD Boxing Organisation junior middleweight champion Harry Simon will have to defend his title against the WBO’s top-rated contender before embarking on his campaign to meet International Boxing Federation kingpin Fernando Vargas. It was announced on Tuesday that Simon will face Rodney Jones on 19 February in Dagenham, England. […]

CAPE Town dropped out of the running of the for the 2008 Summer Olympics, when they did not submit their preliminary bid application with the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday. Beijing is the early favourite of the ten cities which submitted bids, including Bangkok, Cairo, Havana, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, Osaka, Paris, Seville and Toronto. Buenos […]

BLACK empowerment group New Africa Investments Ltd (Nail), said on Monday that it has spun off its media assets into a separate entity as part of its ongoing restructuring. “New Africa Media (NAM), at this stage a wholly owned subsidiary of Nail, will assume control of all Nail’s media assets and hopes to list in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday 4.15pm. THE Southern African Develpment Community has warned that at least 200 people are dying of hunger each day in Angola, where fighting has disrupted farming activities. “An escalation in civil strife has made an already precarious food situation even worse,” the SADC said in a report released this week. […]

A FIRE broke out in the mountains above Cape Town’s plush Llandudno suburb on Wednesday afternoon, but was quickly bought under control. About six hectares of mountainside was burnt in the Suikerbossie area, but no property was threatened and all roads remained open, South Peninsula nunicipality officials said. Three helicopters were used to waterbomb the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.00pm. A POSITIVE finish on Wall Street and sturdier domestic bond and rand markets jacked up shares on the JSE for the second session in a row on Wednesday, but stocks soon gave away some opening gains. Diamond giant De Beers , the exchange’s third biggest stock by value, jumped […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.00am. THE suspended chief executive officer of the Premier Soccer League Joe Ndhlela allegedly bought clothing worth R1,3-million while appointing himself and the PSL accountant as signatories to a new PSL bank account. This is according to a charge sheet tabled at the PSL’s special tribunal on Tuesday, The Star […]

FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Phillipe Troussier says his future as Japan’s coach is in the balance. The ”white witchdoctor” began a two year contract in September 1998 and is preparing his team for a series of six matches in Hong Kong, Macua and Japan. He ruled out fellow Frenchman and Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger taking […]

GOVERNMENT is drafting a bill that will make a property’s market value the sole means of assessing property taxes. Business Day reports that the legislation will introduce a single formula for calculating property taxes, replacing the 14 disparate methods currently in use. The bill aims at bringing untaxed areas into the tax net, applying a […]