THE World Bank said on Thursday that it plans to sell a $3-billion global bond offering over the internet, allowing individual investors to invest in the bank which provides loans to developing nations. Syndicate leaders Goldman Sachs & Company and Lehman Brothers will offer the bonds online while individuals can buy into the offering online […]

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 […]

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 […]

THE rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) on Sunday denied involvement in an attack in southern Sudan which two Sudanese aid workers died and two other went missing. SPLM/A spokesman Samson Kwaje said that his rebel group has no forces operating in Western Upper Nile, where the incident occurred, and that most of the rebel […]

LISTENERS of the pan-African radio station Africa No 1 have voted Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi the most notable African of 1999, the station announced on Saturday. He beat out former South African president Nelson Mandela. The station said 35 million listeners voted for either Gaddafi or Mandela, but did not specify how big the gap […]

SOUTH Africa’s selectors have retained the squad that defeated England at Newlands for the fifth and final Test next week and have included Border captain Pieter Strydom to “cover” for injuries. “Both Jonty Rhodes and Daryll Cullinan are carrying minor hamstring injuries, so we thought it best to cover ourselves by adding Strydom to the […]

MODESTE Eta scored after 84 minutes to give Congo a 1-0 victory over French first division club Lyon. Some Congolese observers believe Eta will be the only local player in the starting line-up for their first African Nations Cup Group D match on January 25 against Morocco in Lagos.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday 4.30pm. SOUTH Africa will back incumbent Issa Hayatou of Cameroon in the African Football Confederation presidential election in Ghana this month. National football association president Molefi Oliphant announced Friday that his organisation favoured Hayatou ahead of lone challenger Armando Machado from Angola. “We believe Hayatou has displayed great leadership, uplifted […]