PAUL RICHARDSON, Johannesburg | Thursday 6.00pm The Reserve Bank on Thursday signalled its discomfort with the current volatility on domestic financial markets by tightening its monetary policy stance for the first time in six months. But Bank deputy governor James Cross said it did not intend to steer the country’s interest rates — which have […]

TERMS of reference for the SABC’s investigative committee were laid out on Wednesday. The five-member comittee was set up to investigate allegations of interference with editorial independence, and will look at management practices regarding the free flow of ideas at the SABC. SABC spokeswoman Thaninga Shope said in a statement that the committee will consist […]

CLARE LOVELL, Hove | Thursday 12.30pm. SOUTH Africa have an enviable one-day record coming into the World Cup but the pressure will be on Hansie Cronje’s side when they play India in their group A opener on Saturday. Boasting the all-round skills of Jacques Kallis, Shaun Pollock and Lance Kluesner, the acrobatic fielding of Jonty […]

A MILITANT white right-wing group has offered to send a 100-strong force of volunteer soldiers to Yugoslavia to help Serbia in its defence against Nato attacks, its leader said on Tuesday. Andrew Ford, leader of the extreme right-wing Boere Weerstand Beweging (Boer Resistance Movement), said he had sent a letter to the Yugoslavian embassy and […]

THERE is fewer than one anaesthetist operating in Nigeria for every 1,2-million citizens, a top official from the Society of Anaesthetists of West Africa said on Monday. Navy Surgeon Olaniyi Oladapo said there are fewer than 100 trained anaesthetists in the country whose population is put by the United Nations at 121,8-million. “We have more […]

TUESDAY, 7.00PM: THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s buoyant start to the week ended swiftly on Tuesday, with only the all gold index closing in positive territory as all share, industrial and financial indices lost almost 2%. Much of the slump was ascribed to the disappointing figures released by South African Breweries’ annual results presentation. Again, the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, | Kigali 10.00am AN air raid on the rebel stronghold of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, late on Tuesday night killed 28 people and wounded 15, rebel sources contacted in Goma by telephone said. The sources said the plane belonged to forces backing DRC leader Laurent-Desire Kabila. “I can tell you […]

MOZAMBIQUE will allow hunting of wild elephants and buffalo should an international tender to be held later this month prove successful, a provincial governor said late last week. Governor Aires Aly of the northern Niassa province said the tender will aim to select a company or organisation that can successfully organise the safaris. A recent […]

THE African National Congress and the rival Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party on Tuesday agreed to sign a peace pact in the country’s volatile KwaZulu-Natal province. The peace deal — designed to bring an end to more than a decade of bloody feuding between supporters of the two parties — will be signed in the east […]

RWANDA and Uganda are engaged in new moves to mediate in the year-old border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, it has been learned in Addis Ababa. According to diplomatic sources in Addis Ababa, president Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has sent a special message to the Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi to indicate the two countries’ […]