THE African Champions League second-round, second leg match between Daring Club Motema Pembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Shooting Stars of Nigeria was abandoned at half-time on Sunday. Stars held Pembe goalless in the first half at the 80000-capacity Martyrs Stadium in Kinshasa to retain a 2-0 aggregate lead built in the first […]
AFRICA offers high returns on investment according to a focus on the continent initiated jointly by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, the United Nations Development Programme and the International Chamber of Commerce. The focus revealed that African affiliates of US transnational corporations had enjoyed average returns of […]
A BRAZILIAN journalist who was gang-raped by about ten attackers on Friday night near the Bruma Lake complex in Johannesburg received anti-Aids treatment, Johannesburg police said on Saturday. Inspector Mark Reynolds said the woman (28) had been rushed to the Sunninghill clinic in Sandton, which has a rape trauma centre, and was given anti-retroviral therapy, […]
THE African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday said it is shocked and angered by the murder of an ANC councillor in the midlands. In a statement ANC provincial secretary Sipho Gcabashe said a Georgedale ward councillor, Thulani Tetane, was shot and wounded while he was returning from a community meeting where he had reported […]
A STRIKE by 260 workers on a section of the R2-billion Maputo Corridor toll road continued over the weekend after they refused to accept an apology from a manager who called them ”kaffirs”. The man who made the remark is William Botha, a director of Stocks & Stocks, Basil Read and Bouygues (SBB) construction consortium. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Tuesday 9.30am. A LIBEL action by Seven Stars manager Bruce Grobbelaar against Britain’s Sun tabloid over match-fixing allegations when he was Liverpool goalkeeper got off to a slow start on Monday when the judge sent the jury home. The jury was dismissed minutes after being sworn in. Justice Gray said there […]
Retirement from the presidency is like being ”out of jail for the second time.
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SOUTHERN Africa has the world’s fastest accelerating Aids rate and is confronting debilitating human and economic devastation with 10% of its workforce infected, the Southern African Economic Summit in Durban heard on Sunday. Martin Harvey, head of a Zimbabwean insurance company, told delegates Zimbabwe had lost one million people to Aids in six years. In […]
FIVE thousand miners from ERPM gold mine on the East Rand are to be retrenched with immediate effect, SABC news reported on Monday. This follows government’s refusal to assist the mine with bridging finance of R18-million, the broadcaster said. ERPM has been in serious financial crisis since 1990 but the government has spent R450-million in […]