ORLANDO Pirates contnued their late-season surge with 3-0 drubbing of Bush Bucks at the FNB Stadium on Wednesday night. The Buccaneers move into third place in the Castle Premiership with the win. They have now been unbeaten in 8 outings. Pirates were 2-0 up at the break, and completely dominated the first half. They wandered […]
NTSIKI Biko, the widow of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, is in a stable condition at the St Dominic’s Hospital in East London after she was injured in a head-on collision on the N2 between Umtata and Idutywa in the Eastern Cape late on Saturday afternoon. A minibus taxi she was travelling in collided with another […]
INJURY-plagued Graham Thorpe and Neil Fairbrother gave World Cup hosts a boost here on Friday as both came through unscathed in a tournament warm-up game against county side Kent. Thorpe, who missed the end of the recent Ashes series with back trouble, scored 55 before chipping out to short mid-wicket. Fairbrother – whose career has […]
GOVERNMENT troops in Congo have killed dozens of hostile Ninja militiamen in fighting north of the capital, where army reinforcements have been deployed, a military source said on Monday from Brazzaville. A few civilians also died in Sunday’s fighting, which took place around the military training centre at Bilolo, 25km north of Brazzaville, and on […]
GOLD Fields, born from a merger of Gold Fields Ltd and Driefontein, made a dull debut in Johannesburg on Monday as investors held shy of bullion shares after the metal’s latest tumble. Shares in the new Gold Fields, the world’s second largest gold producer, opened at a below-expectation R24,25, feeling the weight of Friday’s news […]
FORMER Springbok Sevens No 8 Dion O’Cuinneagain will captain Ireland on a four-month tour of Australia late in May. The South African beat out former captains Paddy John and Keith Wood. O’Cuinneagain’s leadership skills make him a contender for Irish World Cup captaincy. He was born in South Africa, but qualifies fo rthe Irish team […]
EMPOWERMENT group NextCom, which is hoping to win the third cellular network licence, said Monday that, if successful, it will give business to small and medium-sized black contractors. These contractors, it said, will be responsible for building base stations across the country to run the network under an empowerment structure — Prov-Con. Sifiso Pretorius, chief […]
THE department of Home Affairs on Monday announced that it has completed the processing and issuing of ID books to people who registered for the June 2 elections using temporary registration certificates. The department said in a statement issued in Pretoria applications which have resulted in queries are still being completed. ID book applicants who […]
DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.00pm. GOLD shares made something of a dramatic recovery on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Tuesday, rising 22 points to 969, as bullion scratched back a dollar. Financials and industrials crept up, 12 points to 9954 and 45 points to 7345 respectively. The overall index however, suffered, dropping a […]
PICK ‘n Pay announced on Monday that it will sell its shareholding in 7-11 Stores back to 7-11, giving the Western Cape-based company total ownership. Pick ‘n Pay formed a joint venture with 7-11 Stores in February 1997 to form 7-11 Africa, which was designed to operate outside of the Western Cape. Pick ‘n Pay […]