A HIGH level intelligence agency and police investigation has found that Hyundai Motor Distributors managing director Billy Rautenbach was allegedly involved in the murder of Daewoo SA president Yong Koo Kwon in February this year. SABC3 news reports that this is alleged in an affidavit filed in the Pretoria High Court by senior state advocate […]

JUDGMENT was reserved on Monday in the kidnapping trial of Lawrie Fraser. Magistrate JD Pretorius said judgment will be delivered on February 28 in the trial, in which Fraser is accused of kidnapping his biological son Timothy Funnell from the baby’s adoptive parents in Malawi on February 15 1997.

MPMALANGA’S controversial former finance head, Shadrack Mashele, appeared briefly in the Nelspruit Regional court on fraud charges on Monday after allegedly using State funds to settle personal business debts. Mashele appeared along with his former colleague and Mpumalanga’s current assistant finance director, Sellion Maseko. They were not asked to plead and were released on their […]

ZIMBABWE’s dry foreign exchange market continued struggling on Tuesday to cope with importer demand largely from state companies, dealers said. “We are still struggling and most of the money is going to Noczim as per the central bank directive, which came at a time when the market was already too short,” one dealer said. He […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Monday 7.00pm. WICKET KEEPER Mark Boucher had most to gain when his captain Hansie Cronje chose to prolong the second test against England on Monday despite a positive result looking almost impossible. Boucher had 99 test dismissals when the captains first had the opportunity to call the match off half […]

MALAWI and Rwanda drew 1-1 in Blantyre on Monday in a friendly match intended to prepare the teams for World Cup qualifiers next year. The two countries also drew 1-1 on Saturday in Lilongwe. Rwanda meet Cote d’Ivoire and Malawi play Kenya during April in two-leg World Cup ties.

THE National Union of Mineworkers on Monday called on the government to suspend the liquidators of East Rand Proprietary Mines and launch a full investigation into their activities, according to the Business Report. ERPM was placed in liquidation in July this year. Last week it was sold to a black-owned mining company, Khumo Bathong. NUM […]

INTERNET service provider M-Web has announced that it is on track to break the 200000 subscriber mark before Christmas. M-Web said on Friday that the recent deal with ITI (which saw M-Web take on subscriber management services for ITI’s Club Internet subscribers) has contributed to additional growth, as has the acquisition of Cyberhost’s subscriber base […]

RESIDENTS of Thohoyandou in the former Venda homeland are preparing for a black Christmas and new millennium, with no Christmas lights, no street lights and no traffic lights. Eskom has cut off electricity to the town because of a dispute with the town council over the payment of a R1,8-million bill. The last time street […]

SOUTH African striker Phil “Chippa” Masinga, who plays for Bari, will undergo surgery on a knee injury which will virtually rule him out of the rest of the Italian season. Masinga twisted his knee during training last week but a fresh examination on Monday has shown the injury to be more serious than first thought, […]