THE town of Sutherland in the Karoo is to play host of a R100-million telescope due to scan the galaxies, Arts, Culture, Science and Technology Minister Ben Ngubane announced on Thursday. Ngubane said the telescope will be the largest of its kind in the southern hemisphere, and will enable the country to remain internationally competitive […]

SOUTH African Fulton Allem will not be making a return to South African golf as anticipated by his fans and fellow golfers. Allem, who was due to start the Vodacom Tour summer leg at Royal Cape Golf Club in the Vodacom Players Championship in December, has had to withdraw due to injury. Allem announced on […]

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 […]

SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Thursday 4.45pm THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange fell victim to a bought of cold feet on Thursday after the Reserve Bank’s announcement that it will freeze the repo rate at 12% as a Y2K precaution. By close of trade the all share index was down 0,28%, with a 0,60% fall in […]

GAMBIA has signed a deal with South Africa’s state-owned power utility, Eskom, with a view to ending electricity shortages, Reuters quoted Gambian officials as saying on Saturday. The officials said that under the deal Eskom would bring equipment to the north western country to help it generate additional electricity. Gambia has been suffering shortages of […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 3.25pm. BAFANA Bafana have won a number of skirmishes with European clubs over the past few days to enable them to field as strong a team as possible for their friendly against Sweden on Saturday. Officials insisted on calling up the majority of their European-based players for the Nelson […]

THE bronze statue of statesman Louis Botha outside the gates of Parliament in Cape Town is strewn with flowers after a demonstration earlier on Thursday to mark international day against violence against women. Scores of women and men, including Speaker of Parliament Dr Frene Ginwala and Pan Africanist Congress member Patricia de Lille joined the […]