investors Donna Block President-elect Thabo Mbeki is frequently quoted saying, ”It’s time to get to work,” and foreign investors are keen to see he if keeps his word. Most economists and Africa watchers agree that direct foreign investment – investment in resident enterprises – will stay on the sidelines as investors take a wait-and-see attitude […]
World music’s latest folk music craze makes it to Grahamstown. Peter Makarube reports.
PAKISTAN captain Wasim Akram has rapped young pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar over the knuckles for his part in their World Cup defeat by South Africa. He told the Sunday Telegraph that Shoaib, the fastest bowler in the tournament, had not bowled “according to the plan”. “At the death the best policy is to bowl full […]
THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee is considering reopening the amnesty application hearing by security policemen who killed Matthew Goniwe and three other Eastern Cape activists known as the Cradock Four in 1985, TRC spokesman Phila Nqgumba said on Thursday. This comes after George Bizos SC, who appeared for the families of the four […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.20pm BAFANA Bafana coach Trott Moloto on Wednesday kept the essence of the team who played against Mauritius last weekend in Durban, but recalled five players to a 21-man squad for next week’s double-header against Zimbabwe and Angola. South Africa meet Zimbabwe in a challenge match at the FNB Stadium […]
A GANG of robbers escaped with more than R1-million when they hit a cash transporter at Pretoria’s Centurion shopping mall on Wednesday. Police spokesperson Inspector Gideon Thessner said two armed men hijacked the Khulani Springbok Patrols van at the mall while it was occupied by a single guard, and ordered him to drive to Clubview, […]
FIERCE fighting was reported on Wednesday in Angola’s northern Vije province, where UNITA rebels have taken the Ambuila district. According to humanitarian aid sources, clashes in the region have intensified since the end of last month in western and southwestern parts of the province. Aid workers say delivering relief to victims of the fighting is […]
POLAND’S ambassador to South Africa, Zofia Kuratowska, has died of cancer, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. Kuratowska, who had been posted in South Africa for 18 months, died in the Pretoria Heart Hospital on Tuesday, ministry spokesman Marco Boni said. Kuratowska had previously been a deputy speaker of the Polish parliament and was […]
JOCKEY Jacob Mutemararo died on Tuesday after falling from his horse during the seventh race at Borrowdale Park on Sunday. Mutemararo fell at the 1400m mark while leading the field on Ancient Glory. He was ahead of 18 runners when his left stirrup iron broke, causing him to fall. Several of the horses following were […]
THE Mpumalanga education department is expected to announce the results of its probe into last year’s matric results scandal later on Thursday. There has been no word yet on whether any officials will be dismissed. The claimed pass rate was 72%, but the SA Certification Council dropped it to 52%, and Judge Eberhard Bertelsmann found […]