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 […]

THE United Nations on Friday appealed for $190-million to avert another major humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia. “If adequate assistance is slow in arriving, the crisis (of 1999) will not only return but will be much larger in magnitude and severity and certainly more costly to mitigate,” according to a statement released by the UN country […]

A SENEGALESE judge began hearing harrowing testimony of torture and killings against exiled former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre in a landmark human rights case in Africa. Lawyers said four Chadians who say they were tortured by Habre’s henchmen during his 1982-90 rule filed into the chambers of Judge Boucounca Diallo of the Regional Court in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 4.00pm. HITCHES in South Africa’s free trade deal with the European Union over the use of the terms grappa and ouzo are unacceptable, Britain’s visiting minister for Africa Peter Hain has told The Sunday Independent. “I share South Africa’s intense frustration with the way in which all our interests are […]

ANGLOVAAL Mining (Avmin) has signalled its intention to dispose of its stake in the Saturn diamond partnership to De Beers in a deal that could net it close to R40-billion. The Saturn Partnership is a 50% stakeholder in the pretax profit of Venetia Diamond mine, the richest diamond mine in SA. De Beers receives the […]