GAUTENG batsman Daryll Cullinan faces charges of bringing the game into disrepute when he appears before a disciplinary tribunal at the United Cricket Board headquarters in Johannesburg on Tuesday evening. The hearing comes after UCB managing director Ali Bacher lodged a report on an incident involving Border paceman Makhaya Ntini and Cullinan during the Supersport […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.00pm. SHARES on the JSE continued to power higher in afternoon dealings alongside stronger world markets and after two weeks of sustained weakness. Banking, financial services and information technolgy stocks rallied the highest after being hit the hardest. The overall ended a whopping 3,40% or 288 points up, with financials […]

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Monday 4.25pm. ALTHOUGH it will be just over a year since Vuyani “The Beast” Bungu last climbed into the ring, when he faces “Prince” Naseem Hamed on 11 March, he is confident of victory. “Hamed isn’t invincible,” says Bungu “He can have all his fanfare, but he’s still only a man. […]

THE Indian government has agreed to send a team of industrial experts to help Nigeria in drawing up policies to boost small-scale industry. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, accompanied by Industry Minister Iyorcha Ayu, met the Indian Minister for Small Scale Industries Vasundhana Raji for talks on policy when he visited India last week, Obasanjo’s spokesman […]

ENGLISHMAN Lee Westwood won the Dimension Data Pro-Am on Sunday by five shots to claim the R2-milion prize. Westwood’s win at Sun City — his first win in this part of the world and his 18th pro win — follows his 10th joint placing at last week’s SA Open in Randburg and was “a nice […]

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Monday 4.25pm. ALTHOUGH it will be just over a year since Vuyani “The Beast” Bungu last climbed into the ring, when he faces “Prince” Naseem Hamed on 11 March, he is confident of victory. “Hamed isn’t invincible,” says Bungu “He can have all his fanfare, but he’s still only a man. […]

SUGAR and aluminium firm Tongaat-Hulett Group Ltd is in talks to acquire Transvaal Sugar from Hunt Leuchars & Hepburn Holdings for R900-million, the companies said on Friday. Shares in HL&H jumped 11,3% or 74 cents to 730 cents, while Tongaat traded flat at R45,00 a share. HL&H separately said the deal needs the approval of […]

TWENTY-ONE people were killed on Sunday in landmine explosions and gun battles in the Hiran region of central Somalia. On Sunday, five escorts of a food convoy were killed and six wounded when their vehicle went over a landmine near El-Ali. After the convoy turned back, it was attacked again, according to an eyewitness, who […]

Dealers said the currency’s weakness, after a period of relative stability, has little to do with South Africa’s economic fundamentals and was mainly the result of the strength of the US dollar, particularly against the euro.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Accra | Monday 9.20pm. CAMEROON and co-hosts Ghana scraped into the African Nations Cup quarter-finals on Monday despite both losing in a thrilling finish to Group A. Cte d’Ivoire defeated Ghana 2-0 in Accra through goals from Bonaventure Kalou and Donald Olivier Sie while an early Massamesso Tchangai goal gave outsiders Togo a […]