INTERNET service provider M-Web Holdings Limited announced on Sunday that its revenue for the six months to September 30 grew by over 130% to R92-million. A combination of agressive marketing and its growing internet branding saw after-tax losses fall from R189-million in its year-end to March, to R133-million for the six months to September. The […]

GOLD moved towards $300 an ounce on Thursday in Europe, with dealers predicting prices could reach this level by Friday. The $300 level is the strike price for a large number of call options. Platinum and palladium continued to move higher driven by ongoing supply concerns from Russia a major producer of both precious metals […]

MICHAEL FINCH, Bloemfontein | Monday 9.00pm. SPINNERS Phil Tufnell and Michael Vaughan shared five wickets as England beat a Free State/Griqualand West combined XI by 153 runs on Monday for the second win of their South African tour. Left-arm spinner Tufnell captured three for 27 and Vaughan showed his off breaks are a useful addition […]

GABON is to send 1200 tons of niobium to Finland for tests that the authorities hope will confirm the viability of mining the metal in the Central African country, officials said. A company called Societe Miniere de Mabounie has been set up to mine the metal, with Gabonese interests controlling 30% of the shares and […]

FORMER Correctional Services Director-General Khulekani Sitole will leave for the United States on Monday afternoon to discuss a possible lectureship post at the Jackson State University in Mississipi, SABC reported. Sitole resigned his post at the correctional services last month after he was found guilty of mismanagement and misuse of funds. Earlier the parliamentary public […]

TAXI ranks in Soshanguve, north-west of Pretoria will remain closed, a judge investigating taxi violence in the area said on Monday. In a statement in Pretoria, Judge Dumisa Ntsebeza said although some progress was made over the weekend in Soshanguve, the two main taxi associations remained at logger-heads. “Taxi ranks will remain closed for the […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Sunday 2.00pm. Orlando Pirates(1) 1 (Mkhize 35-pen) Sundowns(1) 3 (Shai 30, 55, Motlohi 89) Sundowns qualify 3-2 on aggregate UTILITY player Isaac Shai celebrated his return to the national squad with a couple of goals as Sundowns reached their third consecutive Rothmans Cup final on a scorching afternoon in Johannesburg. Shai […]

ZAMBIA has called in British detectives to probe the murder of Wezi Kaunda, son and political heir of founding president and chief opposition leader Kenneth Kaunda, the government said on Saturday. “The British government has agreed to send a small team of investigators from Scotland Yard to participate in the ongoing investigations into the mysterious […]

QUEEN Elizabeth arrived in Maputo on Monday for a visit aimed at developing commercial and cultural ties with Mozambique, which, though not a British colony, has a long and colourful history of British intrigue. The 10-hour stopover at the end of an African tour marks the queen’s first visit to the former Portuguese colony. Her […]

WESTERN Cape police on Thursday arrested a school principal and a second man after matric mathematics exam papers were allegedly stolen and sold to pupils at the Hector Peterson High School in Kraaifontein last month. The papers were reportedly sold for R150 at the school on October 31, a day before the exams started. Police […]