PRIVATE companies in Zimbabwe have stepped in to raise finance for fuel imports to avert economic disaster as national supplies verge on drying up. The companies have raised $7-million for a further two-weeks’ fuel supply after the bankrupt National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (Noczim) said the country has a few days’ supply left. Noczim’s regular […]

THE head of Hyundai Motor Distributors in South Africa, Billy Rautenbach, was involved in the murder of Daewoo South Africa president Yong Koo Kwon in February, prosecutors alleged in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday. An affidavit by senior prosecutor Thembakazi Burhali claimed that Rautenbach’s link to the murder had been shown during an investigation […]

MOFOLO Park in Soweto will soon boast a tartan athletics track after an International Amateur Athletic Federation grant of R18-million was secured by Johannesburg’s Southern Metropolitan Local Council. The track will comply with international stadards after it’s completion in December 2000.

MANOAH ESIPISU, Lusaka | day 11.00m. MINING giant Anglo American on Wednesday signed a deal to acquire several big copper mines in Zambia in a pact crucial for the country’s mine privatisation programme. “Our signing shows that Anglo is committed to the completion of this deal. We intend to keep to the January 31 deadline,” […]

ANDY COLQUHOUN, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.50pm. SOUTH Africa’s first black test cricketer Makhaya Ntini, cleared of rape on appeal in October, has boosted his chances of a test return by being named to play England in two tour matches. The 22-year-old pace bowler will spearhead a combined Border/Eastern Province attack in a limited-overs game on […]

ALISTER BULL, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.15pm SOUTH Africa looks set to round off 1999 with a batch of economic indicators confirming bright prospects for the year ahead as the country grapples with daunting levels of poverty and unemployment. Economists polled by Reuters forecast benign inflation and money supply data that should not disturb mounting confidence […]

CLIVE Carker, former Bafana Bafana coach, has resigned from his position as coach of Durban Premier League club AmaZulu. Barker’s resignation follows a string of five consecutive defeats suffered by AmaZulu over the past weeks. The club has only won four times this season. According to AmaZulu managing director Adriaan Muller, Barker’s resignation is a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Tuesday 11.00am. CAPTAIN Hansie Cronje paid tribute to the quality of England’s fightback in the second Test which ended in a draw at St George’s Park on Monday. ”The way their middle and lower order batted slowed us up a lot and we weren’t able to knock them over and […]

MITCH PHILLIPS, London | Tuesday 7.30pm. SOUTH African umpire Rudi Koertzen admitted on Tuesday that he may have made mistakes in the second test between South Africa and England but said he is honest and is determined to prove he is a good official. Koertzen was savaged in the English press after giving three English […]

CORRECTIONAL Services minister Ben Skosana said on Tuesday that prison overcrowding will remain a problem well into the next millennium, and that by 2008 the numer of prisoners awaiting trial is expected to outnumber those serving sentences. Skosana said that prisoners awaiting trial will be a majority in Gauteng in 2002. According to Skosana, South […]