OWN CORRESPONDENT, Brisbane | Tuesday 2.30pm. THE selection of former Springbok skipper Tiaan Strauss in the Wallaby team has been criticised by a powerful Australian rugby club as sending a mixed message to local players. Strauss was on Monday named as a reserve forward in the Australian team to play Ireland in Brisbane on June […]
SOUTH Africa’s trade policies toward Africa came under fire at the fourth summit of the Common Markets of Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) in Nairobi on Monday. Daniel arap Moi, incoming head of Comesa, said Kenya will be forced to review its trade with South Africa if current practices continue. Moi claimed existing bilateral trade […]
STUDENTS at a teachers’ college in Mpumalanga who boycotted campus food last week have rejected proposals by the provincial education department to monitor the caterers while they prepare meals. Students at Mgwenya College of Education near Nelspruit insist that Don Catering Club be dismissed outright and resumed the food boycott on Monday. The 240 students […]
FOUR days ahead of the handover to a civilian government in Nigeria, bank workers began strike actions demanding better pay and conditions, union officials said. “We have sent out circulars to all our members nationwide. It is a stay-at-home order,” Shuaib Ibrahim, the general secretary of the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Amstelveen | Wednesday 6.00pm. 5.30pm: SOUTH Africa’s relaxed approach to the Kenya match did not fail them as they comfortably won in 34 overs, reaching the 153 total with ease. The Proteas gave up only three wickets during their innings. South Africa needed batting only from Gibbs, Kirsten, Boucher, Kllis and Cullinan to […]
TUESDAY, 1.30PM: A R2,4-billion merger is on the cards for Sasol, which is about to buy a 52,6% share in chemicals group AECI from Anglo American Industrial Corporation for around R29 a share. The companies’ cautionary period has been extended by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange until Wednesday. Negotiations have been delayed, despite the exchange of […]
TUESDAY, 1.30PM: ECONOMIC growth managed to hit just 0,7% in the first quarter, short of the levels required to meet Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s annual target of 2,5%. Manuel’s budget projections, which hoped for healthy growth, were based in part on optimism that there would be growth stimulated by an interest-rate cut this year. But […]
A WARRANT has been drawn up for Trevor Tutu, the wayward son of Truth and Reconciliation Commission chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, for failing to pay a R8000 fine. Tutu could spend a year in jail as a result. He was fined R10000 earlier this year after being convicted for reckless driving, of which R2000 was […]
THE European Union and Rwanda have signed a 68-million-euro finance package deal, according to an EU statement received here on Thursday. The bulk of the package, worth some 66 million euros will take the form of direct budget support and constitutes the EU’s contribution to a structural adjustment plan and the economic reforms undertaken by […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 2.30pm FW DE KLERK’s court case against the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was postponed on Tuesday in the Cape High Court. Judge Jeffery Immerman agreed to postpone the case in order to allow both sides to better prepare. No date for another hearing was set. The former president, who […]