VETERAN television personality Michael de Morgan died in Cape Town on Monday after a short illness. De Morgan (72) was a broadcaster with the British Broadcasting Corporation for 13 years before joining the SABC in 1974. He spent another 13 years with the SABC and joined the South African Foreign Affairs department in 1987. In […]
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.
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. […]
Alex Dodd explores the similarities between Dark Continent and Lars von Trier’s Element of Crime.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Glasgow | Monday 1.00pm. NAMIBIAN international Quinton Jacobs says he will keep his word to join lowly Partick Thistle, despite interest in the midfielder from Dutch giants Ajax and Belgian outfit Anderlecht. Jacobs, 20, is set for a debut in the Scottish League Cup tie against Alloa after refusing to go back on […]
THE National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa said on Sunday that vehicle sales for June have declined slightly, compared with the sales in the same period last year. The overall June sales stand at 24367 units sold, compared with 24657 units sold in May — a 1,2% decline. This is a 13,2% fall […]
PORTUGUESE finance minister Sousa Franco is scheduled to arrive in Maputo on Sunday for a four-day visit to discuss the country’s foreign debt and electricity tariffs charged by the Cabora Bassa Dam. Government officials said he would discuss a possible rescheduling of Mozambique’s debt to Portugal. Portugal has already rescheduled Mozambique’s debt four times to […]
THE head of the military junta on Grande Comore and the leader of the separatists on the island of Anjouan pledged on Saturday to work together for peace.
DENIS BARNETT, Durban | Monday 1.00pm THE United States government’s Overseas Private Investment Corporation on Monday announced a $350-million fund for infrastructural development in sub-Saharan Africa. “We hope this will launch in this part of the world a tremendous infrastructure-building that will further attract foreign direct investment,” OPIC chief executive George Munoz told a press […]