SHELL South Africa has pledged R3800 to the Nelson Mandela Children’s fund after its Ultra City in Umtata inadvertently upped the price of petrol a day early. A technical error resulted in Wednesday’s 18 cents a litre price rise coming into effect at midnight on Monday. The mistake was rectified only eight hours later when […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
THE gold price dropped to below the $280,00 per ounce mark on Monday, its lowest point in eight months, following concern about the Bank of England’s decision to sell more than half of its gold reserves. In London, on Monday afternoon, the gold price was fixed at $278,00 compared with Friday’s fixing of $282,40 and […]
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 […]