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 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 3.30pm. SOUTH African soccer officials have reacted with delight to Nigeria’s decision to withdraw their bid to host the World Cup finals in 2006 and instead support the South African bid. South Africa 2006 World Cup bid chairman Irvin Khoza said on Tuesday that the Nigerian decision comes as a […]
CALM returned to the Dukuduku forest in northern KwaZulu-Natal on the weekend after eight protesters were arrested during clashes with police on Thursday. On Friday morning police and the army were patrolling the road where protesters went on the rampage and opened fire on police on Thursday. After the skirmish with police the residents fled […]
JAPAN’S Nissan Motor Co Ltd will make vehicles for France’s Renault SA at its plants in South Africa and Thailand as part of production sharing following their capital tie-up. Nissan will start making Renault cars in SA as early as 2000, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said. Until now Renault has reached African markets mainly via […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela’s legal counsel on Monday said the High Court judgment which overturned the appointment of the Browde commission of inquiry into the affairs of the SA Rugby Football Union was ”riddled with bias”. Advocate Wim Trengove told the Constitutional Court there was a ”pattern of frequently wrong rulings” in the judgment made by […]
HOOKER James Dalton, only recently recovered from a groin injury, has re-injured his groin on the same side while kicking in a training session. Dalton has played a couple of club games for Rand Afrikaans, but has not suited up for a Super 12 match yet, and will miss tests against Italy and Wales. James […]
JONTY Rhodes is due to help South Africa wade through English county sides in preparation for the upcoming World Cup. REturning from a slight strain, Rhodes helped SA roll over Kent, and captain Hansie Cronje doesn’t see Middlesex as too much of a threat. The SA skipper does think it will be tougher than the […]
DIMENSION DATA, South Africa’s largest communication systems integration company, completed an excellent six months to end March 1999, with turnover increasing 54% to a record R2,7 billion. Headline earnings rose 90% to R176,9-million and headline earnings per share increasing 61% to 27,1 cents. The group ended the six months with a 178% increase in its […]
VISITING Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe held talks with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Khatami on Saturday on ways to promote political and economic ties, state radio said. Mugabe, who arrived here on Friday, said Zimbabwe was willing to expand cooperation in various sectors, including agriculture, mining and refining. During his three-day visit, Mugabe is also due […]
SIERRA Leone’s rebel movement will deliver its peace proposals to the chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Tuesday, a rebel spokesman in Lome said. “We will be delivering our document to Togo’s President Gnassingbe Eyadema tomorrow, who will then likely hand it over to the Sierra Leone government,” said Omrie […]