SMALL-SCALE cattle farmers in Mpumalanga got a boost on Monday with the launch of a programme to combat soil erosion and degradation in communal grazing areas the province’s Lowveld region. The programme has targeted an initial 9170 hectares used by 42 subsistence farmers in the Mawewe tribal trust for improved soil conservation management. The project […]
THE number of civil summonses for debt recorded in the first quarter of the year increased by 12,9%, compared to the same period last year, Statistics South Africa reported on Monday. During March this year, 83258 civil judgments for debt were issued amounting to R725,6-million. The major contributors to the amount were civil judgments relating […]
TEN people were killed and several dozen were wounded when rebels from Sierra Leone attacked a village near Forecariah in southern Guinea at the weekend, Guinean television reported late on Monday. Villagers told television reporters that more than 200 men armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and machetes attacked the village of Tassin on the border […]
THE Chamber of Mines’ economics department said on Thursday that, owing to “a double counting error”, gold output for last year had been overstated by more than nine tons (9379,5kg). South Africa’s true gold production for 1998 was 464,4 tons which was 5,7% lower than the previous year’s output of 492,5 tons. During the first […]
BLACK empowerment consortium AfricaSpeaks — formerly Telecommunications Empowerment Corporation — announced on Thursday it is applying for the third cellular licence. The organisation describes itself as a broad consortium comprising some 100 groups — including the National Empowerment Corporation and the National Sports Council — drawn from all nine provinces. The group, chaired by businessman […]
PAPER and pulp group Sappi reported a ”strong” cashflow for the first six months of the year with cash generated by operations of R1,9-billion. Net finance costs were however up by some R50-million due to a reduction in interest capitalised. Although Sappi’s results in the six months to March,continued pressure on paper prices worldwide saw […]
A HIGH-LEVEL political row has broken out in Austria over the death of a Nigerian deportee, who suffocated to death on a plane on which he was held bound and gagged. Austrian President Thomas Klestil has called for a full inquiry into the death of Marcus Omafumo, who had worked abroad in Germany for many […]
HOUT Bay police officer Inspector Andre Ferreira will apply for bail on Monday afternoon at the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court after he was arrested by the Independent Complaints Directorate last Thursday in connection with charges of murder, perjury and attempting to defeat the ends of justice. Ferreira two weeks ago shot dead a suspect after […]
MPUMALANGA transport MEC Jackson Mthembu narrowly escaped death on Sunday morning when he lost control of his government issue Mercedes Benz and rolled the vehicle while on his way home.Police spokesman Sergeant Leonard Hlathi said on Monday that the vehicle was badly damaged when it hit two separate traffic signs on the Beatlaan Road in […]
LAWRENCE Dallaglio, captain of England’s rugby side, is quoted in the British tabloid News of the World saying he used to deal in drugs, and that he and unnamed England teammates celebrated the Lions’ 1997 2-1 Test series victory over South Africa with Ecstasy and cocaine. The Rugby Football Union has issued a statement saying […]