WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: THE winelands of the Cape will play host to the European golf tour for the first time when the 1999 Mercedes-Benz Vodacom SA Open is staged at Stellenbosch Golf Club. The South African Open forms part of the European Tour and will see world number two Ernie Els defending his home title, an […]
THE Tanzanian government is looking for potential buyers worldwide of the state-owned Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited, PSRC (privatisation authority) Executive Chairman John Rubambe declared in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday. The TTCL currently has only 127000 lines connecting its customers and has been offering telephone services to about 2% of Tanzanian families, he stated. He […]
SHARON HAMMOND, Nelspruit | Thursday 2.45pm. MOZAMBIQUE will lift its ban on elephant hunting in the next month and start selling off 1,8 tonnes of ivory seized from poachers. The ban was introduced in 1990 after the government signed the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species. The convention was amended this year to […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.00pm. SIGNIFICANT over-provision of the daily tender by the South African Reserve Bank sent a positive signal to the markets on Wednesday, boosting the JSE, bonds, and the rand. The good news came on top of yesterday’s current account surplus release. While the current account surplus demonstrates SA’s fundamentals are […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 7.00pm. DEMOCRATIC Party leader Tony Leon on Wednesday said he will ask Public Protector Selby Baqwa to widen his investigation into Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu to include two controversial MECs. Leon also called on President Thabo Mbeki to shore up corruption regulations and clearly define “abuse of public office” […]
A FINAL decision on where to construct the Epupa hydropower project is being delayed by the ongoing war in Angola which has prevented officials from Luanda attending a key meeting in Windhoek. Namibia and Angola are already at loggerheads over which site on the Kunene river to choose with the Angolans favouring a smaller dam […]
BRYAN PEARSON, Cape Town | Tuesday 1.00pm. 8.00pm: TALKS to find a peace deal for the 11-month war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) stalled on Wednesday when the DRC government delegation objected to rebels signing a cesefire agreement, a Zambian private radio station said on Wednesday. Radio Phoenix quoted diplomatic sources saying President […]
THE Amnesty Committee of the Truth Commission on Tuesday granted amnesty to a former member of the African National Congress convicted of killing 21 people and attempting to murder another 16. Michael Phama has been serving a sentence of a total 195 years in prison for his crimes. The amnesty committee said it believes Phama […]
TRADE and investment between Mpumalanga and Britain will be boosted with the opening of a major British exhibition in Nelspruit next month. The exhibition will be opened by Nick Mclnnes, British consul-general, on July 6 at the Nelspruit civic centre. The exhibition is part of a three-year “partners in opportunity” campaign in South Africa, and […]
TUESDAY, 1.00PM: SOUTH Africa and its Southern African Customs Union partners meet in Gaborone, Botswana on Tuesday in a bid to restart failed talks over a revamped customs union. The talks, initiated in 1994 by the South African government, collapsed after members failed to agree on the institutional framework and polices which would form the […]