ORGANISERS of ticket sales for African Nations Cup matches in northern Nigeria downed tools in Kano on Tuesday in protest at ongoing distribution problems. Just hours ahead of Tuesday’s match between Burkina Faso and Senegal, the Kano section of the event’s Nigerian organising committee told reporters they are pulling out in exasperation at the national […]

A SPONSORSHIP deal worth R500000 from Harmony Gold Mining could see gold bars handed out on Comrades Marathon race day on June 16. Apart from producing the regular 20 gold medals for the first 10 men and women across the line, the company will also donate two gold bars of 20 ounces with an estimated […]

A STUDY released by the Commission on Gender Equality on Tuesday shows that women still earn less than men, continue to occupy female-stereotypical jobs and are not being trained to take up top management positions. This is despite laws aimed at ensuring equality in the workplace and in spite of the fact that more than […]

THe escape of 25 dangerous prisoners from police holding cells in northern KwaZulu Natal on Tuesday has prompted an urgent review of police holding facilities in the region. Provincial police commissioner Chris Serfontein has ordered all police stations with high escape rates to immediately compile reports explaining the phenomena. The first 17 prisoners escaped from […]

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Wednesday 2.30pm. World Boxing Organisation featherweight kingpin Naseem Hamed and International Boxing Federation (IBF) featherweight world champion; Paul Ingle are both seeking replacement challengers for their respective titles on March 11 in London. Vuyani Bungu, the current number one IBF contender has been mentioned as a possible for the Ingle fight. […]

VOLKSWAGAEN South Africa announced on Monday evening that it has closed its Uitenhage plant in the Eastern Cape indefinitely following a three-day strike by workers. Spokesman Matt Gennrich said it is impossible for the company to continue production without its workforce, especially when there are concerns of intimidation by a few employees. Workers embarked on […]

THE Northern Province will need at least an extra R7m to fix roads and bridges damaged by recent storms, but there is no indication that the cash-strapped province has the money for this. On Monday premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi toured some of the affected areas by helicopter with public works MEC Collins Chabane, and said repairing […]

VIRGIN Atlantic Airways has been forced to suspend its heavily booked second weekly flight between Cape Town and London because of an appeal by British Airways (BA) to the British civil aviation authorities, according to the Business Report. Until the matter is resolved, the British civil aviation authorities have forbidden Virgin to introduce its second […]

THE Northern Province government presented three game reserves to potential investors on Tuesday in a bid to secure R70 million in investment. Provincial MEC for finance, trade, industry and tourism, Thaba Mufamadi, urged investors at a special conference to take ownership of tourist facilities at the Manyaleti, Letaba and Andover game reserves on the border […]

THE United States will provide $300 million to owners of buildings destroyed by the bomb blast in Kenya’s capital Nairobi on August 7, 1998. The US says the grant will fund work on 60 buildings damaged by the bomb. The funds will be channelled through the US Agency for International Development. In January last year, […]