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 […]

CELLPHONE network Vodacom on Sunday announced it is slashing the tariffs of its pre-paid package, Vodago, by almost half for calls made between 8pm and 7am — with immediate effect. “Some 1,1-million active Vodago users stand to benefit from the longest pre-paid off-peak hours in South Africa,” said Vodacom’s managing director Andrew Mthembu. The Vodago […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Tuesday 7.20pm BRITISH gay activist Peter Thatchell was on Tuesday charged for threatening Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe during a private visit to London late last month, Scotland Yard said. Tatchell (47) of the gay rights association OutRage! jumped in front of Mugabe’s limousine as he was leaving his hotel on October […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

SWAZILAND has ruled out insurance for rape victims, despite an alarming rise in rape cases. Recent research reported 350 ‘official’ rape cases in the country between January and May this year, as against 649 cases reported for the whole of 1998 and 588 cases in 1995. But the Royal Swaziland Insurance Corporation says it is […]

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 […]