THE Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee meeting kicked off in Pretoria on Wednesday with a committment by Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni that the committee will provide more information later in the day on how it calculates its monetary policy stance. At its meeting last month, the first since it assumed its new form, the […]

SWEDISH Prime Minister Goeran Persson arrived in South Africa on Sunday for an eight-day tour, also including Mozambique, aimed at rejuvenating Sweden’s business presence in the region, the foreign ministry said. Persson was due to meet Deputy President Jacob Zuma for bilateral talks later on Sunday before being the guest of honour at a dinner […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.00pm. MICHAEL Vaughan and Chris Adams are certain to make their Test debuts for England when they take on South Africa at the Wanderers on Thursday. Although a final decision will not be made until the captain Nasser Hussain has a look at the pitch in the morning, Gavin Hamilton […]

THE trial of Thomas Florin, a German citizen accused of the grisly murder of his wife, is due to start in the Nambian coastal town of Swakopmund on Wednesday. Florin, a one-time chef, stands accused of bludgeoning his wife, Monika to death at their Swakopmund home last year. He then allegedly dismembered her body by […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.15am SHARES in OpenTV, a subsidiary of television platform operator MIH Holdings’ international subsidiary MIH Limited (MIHL), made major gains following its listing on the Amsterdam and Nasdaq stock exchanges on Tuesday with a successful private placing by the group of 7,5-million shares at $20 per share. OpenTV’s share price […]

SOUTH African allrounder Jacques Kallis will not bowl in the first two Tests against England this summer. Kallis is suffering from severe tendonitis of the left knee, and will probably only bowl in the third Test at Kingsmead on Boxing Day. Kallis was advised not to bowl by specialist, Spike Eramsus, who examined him in […]

DENIS BARNETT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.00pm. WASHINGTON’s UN ambassador Richard Holbrooke will visit South Africa early next month as part of a multi-state African tour focusing on security and peacekeeping, diplomats said on Tuesday. Details of the trip are still being finalised but it will include visits to countries involved in the conflict in the […]

GHANA will meet Brazil in the semi-finals of the world under-17 soccer championship in New Zealand on Wednesday. Finalists in each of the last two tournaments, the two are facing off earlier this time because of the Brazilians’ unaccustomed second placing in Group C, won by a solid Australian team. In the other semi-final game […]

TURKEYS’s national oil and gas comany has sealed an agreement with its Libyan counterpart to explore and drill oil in the North African country. Under the agreement, the Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) will work in two of the 12 fields which Tripoli opened for exploration in 1995. The Libyan parliament is expected to ratify the […]

THE three rebel factions fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will meet next week in an effort to resolve their differences, the leader of one of the groups said.