ANGLO American Platinum Corporation — the world’s biggest platinum producer — on Monday said it has “as a last resort” retrenched 415 employees at its Lebowa mine in Northern Province. Amplats spokesperson Johan Adler said Lebowa has not been performing well for “quite a few years”. “We explored everything as required by the Labour Relations […]
KENYA’S Andrew Musuva outdueled Ethiopia’s Tesfaye Bekele and won the Grandma’s Marathon by four seconds in 2 hours, 13 minutes, 21 seconds on Saturday. Russian Fedro Ryjov was third at 2:13:32. Elena Makolova of Belarus set a course record in winning the women’s division in 2:29:12. Russian Albina Galliamova was runner-up at 2:30:02.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Colombo | Wednesday 9.15am. SRI Lanka’s Tamil Tiger guerrillas are planning to send a top leader to South Africa to seek Pretoria’s help in ending the island’s separatist war, a press report in the capital Colombo said on Wednesday. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) plann to send the group’s ideologue, Anton […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.00pm. MARIAAN DE SWARDT has no fear of Steffi Graf in their second-round bout at Wimbledon, and actually fancies her chances of an upset. The two are tied one-all after two previous matches. In 1992, Graf beat de Swardt 7-5 in a tight third set at Wimbledon, and in 1995 […]
UNITED States oil giant Texaco has suspended production activities in Nigeria’s Niger delta region after an attack by armed youths demanding compensation for an oil spill, a company official said on Tuesday. “We have suspended scheduled loadings for the week,” the official, who did not want to be named, blaming the decision on the attack […]
SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Tuesday 4.45pm THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange lost some ground on Tuesday on a combination of profit taking after Monday’s strong run and generally lacklustre international markets. Banking and financial stock continued to ride out goodwill spurred by Monday’s prime rate cut, with the index rising 0,53%. The overall market ended […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Wednesday 4.15pm. MPUMALANGA Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu owes the public a detailed explanation outlining why he appointed leaders to his cabinet who are admitted liars, the presiding bishop of the Methodist Church, Mvume Dandala, said on Wednesday. Dandala said Mahlangu’s planned apology for attempts to defend new finance MEC Jacques Modipane’s breach […]
AN acute shortage of bread looms in Zimbabwe following threats by major bakers to stop production in protest at new prices imposed by government last week. According to press reports, Eddie Cross, chairperson of the Bakers Association of Zimbabwe, said the price of bread fixed by government, of 28 US cents per loaf, would be […]
THERE are three newcomers to Northern Province’s reshuffled provincial cabinet, which was unveiled by Premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi on Tuesday four days after his inauguration last week. They include Catherine Mabuza and Joe Maswangani as MECs in two new departments created by a partial restructuring of the provincial government. Mabuza previously served in the National Council […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.45pm AUDITOR GENERAL Henri Kluever, South Africa’s widely respected watchdog of public accounts, announced on Wednesday that he is to step down from his post at the end of the year when his seven-year contract expires. He said that the Constitution does not allow him to serve a second term […]