OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 9.30am. SUNDOWNS kept their hopes very much alive of retaining the Castle Premier League title when they outplayed AmaZulu 3-1 at the King’s Park Rugby Stadium in Durban on Wednesday night. Kaizer Chiefs must play Dynamos, and Sundowns have two games in hand to make up the six points separating […]
DURBAN Roodeport Deep plans to sharply accelerate its merger and acquisition strategy in Australia, CE Mike Prinsloo said on Tuesday. A target list of six stocks has been refined from an initial register of 38 stocks examined. Prinsloo, declined to name his preferred six, but said that early moves might be made on lifting his […]
THE African National Congress on Wednesday reacted with anger to an announcement by the Independent Broadcasting Authority allocating times for political party election broadcasts. The broadcasts — prepared by political parties to inform voters of their policies — will be run unedited between May 19 and 31. The ANC was allocated the most broadcast time […]
SUN International Hotels annouced on Tuesday that it is to buy the Desert Inn hotel and casino in Las Vegas from Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide for $275-million. The complex has 715 rooms, an 18-hole golf course and 32 acres of undeveloped land. Starwood owns the Sheraton and Westin hotel chains.
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Thursday 1.30pm. JUST one and a half months after the Libyan sanctions were suspended following the handover of the Lockerbie bombing suspects, Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin will lead a ministerial delegation to the mineral rich country in pursuit of closer economic ties. Both state oil company Soekor and private […]
JAPAN has given both the Zambian and Zimbabwean governments 1,7-billion to facilitate the construction of a modern bridge at Chirundu border post. Zambian daily The Post reports that finance and economic development minister Edith Nawakwi, signing on behalf of the Zambian government, hailed the funding as it will help improve the vital link to Southern […]
THE second of five toll gates on the multi-billion rand Maputo Development Corridor was opened on Tuesday. Trans-African Concessions (Trac) CEO Trevor Jackson said that the company has implemented a comprehensive incident management system along most of the route. He said the system integrated the services of Trac patrol vehicles, local emergency services, and protection […]
THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee hearing into the 1992 Boipatong massacre was thrown into disarray on Wednesday when a woman who was sexually assaulted in the attack queried the manner of her cross-examination and refused to answer questions. Attorney Rian Strydom fell foul of the committee as he questioned Molete about her sister’s […]
AN inspector stationed at the Hout Bay police station was on Wednesday arrested by the Independent Complaints Directorate and will face charges of murder, defeating the ends of justice and perjury, according to ICD regional director Riaz Saloojee. Saloojee said the policeman allegedly shot and killed a man said to have been involved in a […]
LUCIA MUTIKANI, Johannesburg | Thursday 10.40am THE building industry, mired in the industry’s worst recession in decades, will suffer a 6% contraction and shed 30000 jobs this year, an industry official said on Wednesday. Building Industries Federation of South Africa (Bifsa) executive director Ian Robinson said that harsh economic conditions and nervousness ahead of elections […]