OWN CORRESPONDENT, Canberra | Monday 2.00pm. NEW Zealand rugby officials may consider using minders to keep leading players out of trouble following a weekend nightclub incident in the Australian capital Canberra. New Zealand A team management on Monday confirmed three players — All Blacks Craig Innes, Carlos Spencer and Walter Little — were held briefly […]
THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange announced on the weekend that it is extending the deadline for the introduction of the pilot phase of its new electronic settlement system, Strate, to the end of the third quarter of this year. The JSE said the extension will not impact on the Y2K projects of the JSE, or anyone […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
THE riddle of the Lowveld “bear”, sighted last week about 10km outside Nelspruit, was solved this week when the creature showed his bark was worse than his bite. The Lowvelder newspaper reports it was all a case of mistaken identity and the “bear” is a brown bouvier cross-labrador. The dog looks so much like a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Sunday 7.00pm. TRADE and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said on Sunday negotiations to create a regional free trade deal in Southern Africa are progressing but cautioned that difficulties still lay ahead. Erwin addressed the ninth annual Southern African economic summit in Durban this weekend following a meeting with Zimbabwean trade minister […]
WHILE out of the singles competitions at Wimbledon, South Africa has two standard-bearers in the women’s doubles draw quarterfinals. Mariaan de Swardt and Ukrainian Elena Tatarkova are ninth seeds, and quickly beat Spain’s Virginia Ruano Pascal and rgentina’s Paola Suarez 6-4 6-3. Liezel Horn and Slovenian partner Katarina Srebotnik disposed of sixth seeds Lisa Raymond […]