WEDNESDAY, 10.30PM: ON-GOING trade talks between South Africa and the European Union, now into the 20th round, look to be hitting similar stumbling blocks that held back the previous round. Head of the South African delegation Elias Links said on Wednesday: “We will not be able to cover everyone’s ambition, and will have to have […]
THE Johannesburg Regional Court on on Tuesday refused another postponement for further investigation in the trial of the 26-year-old man who allegedly raped journalist Charlene Smith. Magistrate JD Pretorius refused to grant another postponement after strong objections from the legal representative of Johannes Zinto, who argued that his client is entitled to a speedy trial. […]
SOUTH Africa and Nigeria are to set up a joint commission co-chaired by their respective deputy presidents to promote economic cooperation between the two countries, a top official said Monday. The commission, to sit alternately in Nigeria and South Africa, will work on cooperation in economic matters, notably energy and industrial needs, number two in […]
CASINO stock Moribo Leisure Ltd plunged through its year low price of 150c to 120c on Monday as investors ditched the stock after a failed bid for the national lottery, analysts said. The share has retraced gains made on speculation that it would get South Africa’s first lottery licence, and it has slipped from a […]
SOUTH African Airways said on Tuesday that its return to profit for the first time since 1995 has boosted plans to list on the Johannesburg bourse. Chairman Mafika Mkhwanazi said the airline also expects to report substantial growth in its earnings in the current financial year as benefits from its recent tie-up with Swissair start […]
BORDER upset Currie Cup champions Blue Bulls by beating them 20-15 on Tuesday in East London, after leading 13-3 at the break. Border’s eighthman, Graham Carlson, scored a sensational 40-metre solo try, adding to a try by flyhalf Kobus van der Merwe, both of which fullback Wayne Weyer converted and added two two penalties. This […]
SEVERAL former security policemen claim ex-president PW Botha approved the murder of eight anti-apartheid activists when he was head of state in 1985, the Truth Commission said Thursday. Some of 12 former security policemen who will appear before the TRC next week will testify that Botha, now 83, and his cabinet approved the killings, the […]
TUESDAY, 11.30AM: THE South African sugar industry may grow quite easily after two seasons of record harvests, according to Dan MacLeod, South African Sugar Association chairman. The 1997/98 season produced a record 2404-million tons of the sweetener, and the 1998/99 harvest has been estimated to be about 2,7-million tons. A normal crop is at present […]
A once-off reparations tax should be levied on people of a certain income bracket to assist the victims of apartheid, the Archbishop of Cape Town, the Reverend Njongonkulu Ndungane, said on Tuesday. He was speaking in Durban at the 29th session of Provincial Synod of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa. This tax […]
TUESDAY, 5.30PM: THE National Productivity Institute on Tuesday said South African companies have been slow in taking advantage of the open South African economy, preferring an inward focus on the domestic market. According to National Productivity Institute marketing management manager Grey van der Hoff, South African firms are inclined to “continue focusing on the local […]