LEISURE consortium SunWest on Thursday said it has awarded a R362,5-million casino construction contract to joint venture partners WBHO Grinaker Rainbow Boshard. SunWest last year was awarded the Cape Metropolitan Casino licence. SunWest said in a statement that its total investment in the project is R1,56-billion. SunWest is 49% owned by Sun International.

AS cars, bikes and lorries sped through the Egyptian desert on the home stretch of the Dakar 2000 rally, thousands of people from around the world gathered here ahead of Sunday’s finish at the Giza pyramids. More than 3000 rally fans have already arrived in the Egyptian capital whose pharoanic monuments will watch over the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Gabon | Saturday 6.30pm. NO qualifiers for the 16-team African Nations Cup know each other better than former champions SA and Gabon, who set Group B rolling on Sunday at Asokwa Stadium. SA triumphed 4-1 at home and lost 1-0 away in qualifiers for the 2000 finals, and the manner of the defeat […]

A HOTEL manager in Democratic Republic of Congo has filed a lawsuit against a rebel group based there over unpaid bills totalling some $31750 dollars, the plaintiff’s lawyers announced on Friday. A Ugandan-backed wing of the Congolese Rally for Democracy allegedly ran up the bills between June and July at the Palm Beach Hotel in […]

RED-HOT oil prices sizzled near nine-year highs on Thursday as the West’s energy watchdog warned that Opec supply curbs will leave the world perilously short of oil in coming months. World benchmark Brent crude for March delivery was up 16 cents at $26,00 a barrel, near the $26.30 nine-year high struck briefly on Wednesday. Forecasts […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Saturday 6.30pm. THE opening game in the African Nations Cup ‘Group of Death’ on Sunday pits Nigeria against Tunisia — teams considered strong enough to go all the way and win the biennial tournament. It will be a Group D match of contrasts with poorly-prepared, Europe-based Nigerians opposing perfectly-conditioned, home-based Tunisians […]

THE Financial Services Board has taken the unusual step of inviting investors who may have been prejudiced by insider trading to claim compensation from its arsenal of funds from fines imposed. The Insider Trading Directorate of the FSB, which was set up a year ago to stamp out the crime of profiting from privileged information, […]

THE average room and bed occupancy rates of South African hotels for November 1999 decreased by 12% and 6,7% respectively, compared with November 1998, according to figures released Thursday by Statistics South Africa. Stats SA said decreases in room and bed occupancy rates were reported in 4 of the 9 provinces. North West province recorded […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 11.00pm. HANSIE Cronje wrote himself into one-day cricket history as he led South Africa to a six-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the triangular series-opener on Friday. Cronje’s unbeaten 83 off 112 balls made him only the fourth player after West Indies’ Viv Richards, Australia’s Steve Waugh and Sri Lanka’s Sanath […]