MEMBERS of the advertising industry said on Thursday that they expect clients to spend around R8,5-billion this year, up 10% from last year, in accordance with hopes for an upturn in the economy. Although the final numbers are not in, the industry estimates between R7,5-billion and R8-billion was spent on advertising in 1999 when the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.30pm INVESTORS piled into South African markets on Monday, pushing equities to fresh record highs and bond yields down to levels not seen since the emerging markets crisis of 1998, as economists predict a rosy 2000. In a massive rally that swept across the market, the financial index rocketed over […]

EMMA THOMASSON, Johannesburg | Monday 4.30pm INVESTORS piled into the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Monday, pushing equities to fresh record highs and bond yields down to levels not seen since the emerging markets crisis of 1998, as economists predicted a rosy 2000. The Johannesburg All-Share index ended up 3,58% at 8963 points after briefly breaching […]

ENIWOKE IBAGERE, Lagos | Monday 5.30pm. NIGERIA’s national soccer team captain and Turkey-based striker Daniel Amokachi will not make the final squad for the African Nations’ Cup tournament because of injury, assistant team coach Amodu Shaibu said. Shaibu said injuries and lack of form among key players had significantly weakened the side before the contest […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 3.00pm. ERNIE Els found himself on the receiving end of yet another Tiger Woods PGA Tour blitz when he lost the season-opening Mercedes Championship played at Kapalua, Hawaii in a playoff on Sunday. Woods birdied the second extra hole to beat the South Arican after a riveting final-round head-to-head […]

PEOPLE Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) is running out of money and battling to fund legal representation for 23 members facing criminal charges. In an interview with Sunday Argus Ebrahim Francis admitted Pagad is in dire financial straits. “Our people are being arrested under scheduled offences, which means they have to prove why they should […]

FOREIGN affairs media director Marco Boni on Friday lost his bid in the Pretoria High Court to order his minister, Nkosazana Zuma, to grant him a voluntary severance package worth more than R800000. Boni had claimed that deputy foreign minister Aziz Pahad approved the package on November 1 last year. On November 29, Boni received […]

ABOUT 1000 members of the extremist Islamic group Qibla staged a peaceful protest in the streets of Cape Town on Friday, burning American, Israeli and Russian flags. Chanting “One Zionist, one bullet,” and “Death to America,” the protestors marched through the center of town first to the Russian consulate, and then to the American consulate, […]

THE ANC headquarters in central Johannesburg were evacuated on Friday morning following a bomb-scare. ANC Chief Information Officer Smuts Ngonyama said security personnel were told that there was an explosive device in the building and relayed the information to the authorities. The bomb incident comes a day before the party celebrates its 88th anniversary on […]

LAZARUS Zim, Managing Director of M-Net has joined the board of Supersport United Football Club, serving as Vice Chairman. The announcement was made at the team’s headquarters by SuperSport United Chairman Khulu Sibiya. Zim is no stranger to football administration, having served as a director and secretary of Free State Stars in the late 80’s […]