INTERNET-based media company Moneyweb had a successful listing on the JSE’s Development Capital board on Thursday. The share opened at 180 cents (issue price 100 cents), reached a high of 208 cents and a low of 168 cents. A total of 10-million ordinary shares were issued of which 1,5-million were allocated to Moneyweb subscribers. The […]
A UNITED STATES-based technology research firm ranks South Africa’s cellular phone service as amongst the world’s most expensive, along with Brazil, Colombia, India and Mexico. The Yankee Group’s finding is based on a comparison of purchasing power, or how expensive cellular service is compared to other standard goods and services in any particular country, rather […]
A GIANT portrait of an Egyptian Islamic militant executed for the 1981 assassination of president Anwar Sadat will be unveiled in the Iranian capital on Friday. The picture of the “great al-Islambuli martyr” — Khaled al-Islambuli — is being painted by fundamentalists in a residential street named after the assassin by Iranian authorities angry over […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Sunday 3.00pm. MZUKISI Sikali lost his World Boxing Union junior bantamweight world title on a split decision in Italy on Saturday night. “Sikali practically killed their guy,” said Michau Hazleman, Sikali’s manager. “One of the judges gave the fight to Sikali by eight points and the other two gave it to […]
AT LEAST 200000 people regularly use the Internet in Nigeria, Nigerian Communications Commission chair, one OC Iromantu, said on Friday. Twenty-two internet service providers are active in the country, and many people access providers based outside the country, he said. Iromantu said Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, is already the Internet gateway into West Africa […]
DAVID MAGERIA, Nairobi | Friday 2.45pm SOUTH Africa faces a bitter trade war with its Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) neighbours over its aggressive sale of products on the continent while closing its own market, a Kenyan minister said. Kenyan Trade Minister Joseph Kamotho said on Thursday the 21-member Comesa will block […]
AFRICAN Olympic chief Jean-Claude Ganga will lose his position as chief of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa, following a change of rules made by the International Olympic Committee on Thursday. Ganga has been implicated in the recent scandals over bribery of Olympic officials.
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | day 11.00m. MZUKISI Sikali, South Africa’s World Boxing Union Junior Bantamweight world champion makes the second defence of his title in Italy on Saturday night. The gutsy South African Southpaw will be facing Luigi Castiglione, the man he dethroned for the title last year. Although Sikali who’s record now stands on […]
GRIQUALAND West beat the Natal Sharks 29-23 in the Bankfin Currie Cup match played at Kimberley on Friday. Griquas led 14-5 at half-time.
LANCE Klusener’s heavyweight bat and cavalier approach have combined to make him the World Cup’s leading six hitter after the first two rounds. Klusener, whose ferocious late order hitting has been a vital ingredient of South Africa’s smooth passage into the semifinals, has cleared the boundary nine times. He leads by one from India’s Saurav […]