SENIOR officials from the departments of Health and of Agriculture and Land Affairs are to meet in Pretoria on Wednesday to discuss a health scare caused by the importation of alleged cancer-causing Belgium food products. Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs director for food safety and veterinary public health, Gideon Bruckner said the meeting will […]
TROUBLED black empowerment group New Africa Investments Ltd (Nail) said on Thursday it has appointed Warburg Dillon Read to act as independent financial adviser on its restructuring. Nail said in a statement that Warburg will “provide advice to the board of Nail regarding its restructuring plans, with specific regard to reviewing its shareholder structure and […]
MOROCCO beat Guinea 1-0 in an African Nations’ Cup group two qualifier on Saturday night in Rabat. Morocco’s only goal, scored in the first half, wnet to Abdeljalil Hadda in the 6th minute — in front of a crowd of 70000.
LLEWELLYN Herbert won the 400m hurdles in 48.96 seconds at the Stuttgart international meeting on Sunday. An attempt to crack the 17-year-old world mark in the 4x800m relay race failed as a South African quartet missed the record by 7:04.70 by 0.89 seconds
A farm school teacher in the Mondeor area was shot and killed in a classroom on Thursday. Nandi Mhlongo, 31, was conducting classes at the Oliphantsvlei farm pre-school on the Eikenhof/Lenasia Road at about 9.15am. Two men entered the classroom and demanded the whereabouts of the principal. One of the men fired two shots at […]
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 African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party on Thursday agreed to form a coalition government in KwaZulu-Natal. In a joint statement the parties said that they commit themselves to a need for the formation of a coalition government between the ANC and IFP. They said they hope “to finalise the talks in due […]
THE Lions kicked off their Currie Cup campaign with a 22-16 win over Eastern Province on Sunday, seeing off a spirited fightback. The Vodacom Cup winners scored three tries to two against the Port Elizabeth team.
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 […]
WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: THE United States department of agriculture may consent to allow South African pineapples — banned from the US since 1986 — back into the country after deeming that no “pest of concern” lurks in the fruit, and that they pose no competition to US producers. This opens up the market for South Africa […]