DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Friday 5.00pm. THE gold index was the top performer on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Friday, after a sudden surge in the gold price, gaining 37 points and climbing to 1020. The financial index climbed to 34 points to 9705 while the industrial index climbed 18 points to 7480. The […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 11.00am. HOLDERS ASEC of Cote d’Ivoire scored two late goals to crush Al-Harrach of Algeria 4-0 in an African Champions League second-round, first-leg clash in Abidjan on Sunday. The youthful Ivorian team went ahead midway through the first half through Venance Zeze and Aruna Dindane added a second after 69 […]
JEAN-CLAUDE Ganga, one of the six International Olympic Committee (IOC) members expelled in the Salt Lake City corruption scandal, was ousted as president from the Congolese National Olympic Committee (CNOC) on Friday. CNOC president for the past 10 years, Ganga will be replaced by current vice-president Raymond Ibata. Ganga’s position as head of Africa’s association […]
ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba on Wednesday dismissed a peace agreement for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) brokered in Libya, telling a press conference in Kigali that it ”amounts to nothing.” Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia and Chad are supporting President Laurent Kabila’s forces in the DRC — although Chad announced Friday it was withdrawing its 1,000 […]
ANDY COLQUHOUN, Cape Town | Monday 2.00pm. THE Otago Highlanders assured themselves of a place in the Super 12 semi-finals and South Africa’s Stormers are almost there although five other teams are still in the hunt for the final two places. The Highlanders’ fortuitous 9-8 victory over the ACT Brumbies put them onto 34 points […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday 8.00pm. SUPERSPORT United displayed character when they beat Bloemfontein Celtic 2-1 in a Castle Premier League soccer fixture at the Caledonian Stadium on Friday night, despite finishing a man down. The Bob Save Super Bowl finalists were reduced to 10 men in the 49th minute when national defender Clyde Mahlangu […]
FEARS that new Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni will adopt populist policies are fading, Old Mutual Asset Management head of economic research Rian le Roux said on Thursday. “Financial markets are taking the view that little change is likely given the realities of the economic situation. This is reflected in the stable bond and currency […]
THE Canterbury Crusaders came back from a 31-6 deficit after 30 minutes on Sunday to beat South Africa’s Golden Cats 58-38 in a 12-try Super 12 slugfest. Both teams treated the packed Trafalgar Park, Nelson, crowd to entertaining rugby. The Cats scored four of their five tries within 30 minutes with center Conrad Stoltz, who […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 4.00pm. OLD Mutual, which will list on the London stock exchange this year, said on Friday it is in talks to sell British-based Old Mutual Life Assurance and another unit based in the Isle of Man. The businesses are on the block because Old Mutual wants to move further into […]
MPUMALANGA MEC Luckson Mathebula appears in court again on Friday for allegedly beating his wife with a wooden elephant curio. Mathebula is charged with common assault for allegedly beating his common law wife, Rose Aletta Mnisi, 32, on May 29 last year. Mnisi claims she spent six weeks in hospital recovering from the alleged beating. […]