A LEADING drink distributor is combining canny marketing with a sombre message about drinking and driving over Christmas and the millennium, offering a free breathalyser with every bottle of its spirits. The free kit, bearing the message “celebrate wisely”, will be hung round the neck of every bottle of Gilbey’s Bells, Johnnie Walker and J&B […]

BANKING and financial services shares, which analysts say have languished in deeply oversold territory, are expected to launch a comeback next week,but the wider market is harder to call. Analysts said on Friday that the approach of the millennium date change and its attendant uncertainties, perceived to be more acute in emerging markets, would sap […]

ANGLOGOLD said on Friday that it has already been offered 24,6% of the issued capital of Australian gold miner Acacia Resources in terms of its takeover offer. “We are delighted with this positive early response from the Acacia shareholders,” AngloGold CEO Bobby Godsell said in a statement. AngloGold has offered 3,5 of its shares for […]

TELFORD VICE, Harare | Friday 6.15pm. ZIMBABWE crawled to a painstaking 163 for nine after Sri Lankan left-arm paceman Nuwan Zoysa rocked them with a hat-trick off his first three deliveries on the opening day of the second test on Friday. Zoysa shattered Zimbabwe’s top order when he removed Trevor Gripper, Murray Goodwin and Neil […]

MICHAEL FINCH, Wanderers | Friday 6.15pm. DARYLL Cullinan equalled his country’s record for the most Test centuries as South Africa rubbed salt in England’s wounds on the second day of the first Test at the Wanderers on Friday. Cullinan’s 108, the ninth 100 of his career, helped South Africa reach 386 for six in their […]

THE summit of Kilimanjaro is, at 5891,77 metres, some three metres lower than previously supposed, Eberhard Messner, member of a German-Tanzanian geological expedition, said on Thursday. The highest mountain on the African continent, in northern Tanzania, it had previously been put at 5985 metres. A 21-member team of researchers from Germany and Tanzania measured the […]

VIRGIN Atlantic airlines boss Richard Branson blew into Cape Town on Thursday to launch his first flights to the tourist mecca. ”It has taken us 15 years to get permission to fly to Cape Town,” he told a media conference before a launch party on the city’s Camps Bay beach. ”Once a week means we […]

THE World Bank has promised a loan of $100-million to help finance the reconstruction of the railway linking Mozambique’s port city of Beira, in the central province of Sofala, to Malawi and to the coal mines of Moatize, in the western province of Tete. Chairman of the board of directors of the publicly-owned Mozambican railway […]

THE Cape High Court on Tuesday reserved judgment in a bid by Sprockets Productions Limited, trading as Deadtime, to liquidate Midi Television, the owner of e-tv. Judge D van Reenen said he will try to deliver judgment early next week. Midi TV is defending an application by production company Sprockets to have it provisionally liquidated […]

NEVILLE Sing, executive producer at Primedia Pictures, and an architect of South Africa’s film legislation, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, aged 40. Before joining Primedia Pictures, Sing spent two years at the department of arts, culture, science and technology as deputy director of film. In this capacity, he drafted the department’s White Paper on the […]