ANGLO American Platinum Corp (Amplats) said late on Wednesday that strike action at its Rustenburg and Union sections will have no immediate impact on its output. Amplats, the world’s biggest platinum producer, said some 18000 workers were affected by the strike action at the two operations which account for some 40% of the company’s platinum […]
A NIGERIAN oil firm, Petrogas and Energy plc, is suing the military government over the controversial allocation last month of 11 oil prospecting licences, a report said on Wednesday. Petrogas lawyer Peresuo Isaac-Dema said military ruler General Abdulsalami Abubakar and other top officials have been named as respondents in the case, the newspaper This Day […]
BRETT Liddle ended a two-year win drought with his one-shot victory in the Vodacom Tour’s Lombard Tyres Classic at the Krugersdorp Golf Club on Saturday. A final round 69 saw him finish the 72-hole tournament on 19-under-par 269. Hennie Otto took second place a shot back after his 67, while Roger Wessels finished third on […]
ANGOLAN separatist rebels of the Cabinda Enclave Liberation Front said on Tuesday they urgently want to negotiate with Paris the release of two French hostages abducted in March, together with two Portuguese.On March 10, a French employee of oil company LPF and another from Boyangol — the Angolan subsidiary of the French Bouygues group — […]
SEVEN Stars continued their winning streak with a 4-1 win over Bush Bucks in a Castle Premier League match at the Independence Stadium in Umtata on Sunday. Veteran striker Bennett Masinga opened the score in the third minute for the Cape Town team with a header and Junaid Hartley scored two more (in the 35th […]
UGANDA drew 0-0 with Kenya in the second round return leg of the All Africa Games under-23 qualifying match played here on Saturday. Uganda qualified for the third round on a 2-0 goal aggregate, having won the first leg 2-0 in Kampala two weeks ago. Uganda now meets in the third round in July the […]
THE Democratic Republic of Congo have been disqualified from the All-Africa Games qualifiers, the African Football Confederation (CAF) announced Tuesday. DR Congo failed to arrive in the Central African Republic for a second-round match this month and their opponents face Cameroon during July for a place at the finals. CAF said Senegal would stage the […]
MOZAMBICAN President Joaquim Chissano arrived in the Portuguese capital on Tuesday at the start of a six-day state visit aimed at strengthening economic ties between Lisbon and its former colony. Chissano is scheduled to hold talks with his Portuguese counterpart, Jorge Sampaio, who met his guest on his arrival, and Prime Minister Antonio Guterres.He is […]
SOME 18000 Anglo American Platinum Corporation (Amplats) workers embarked on strike action at two if its mines on Wednesday. Striking workers, organised by the Mouthpeace Workers Union, came out on strike at the Rustenburg and Union platinum mines, to protest management’s insistence that National Union of Mineworkers be included in a task team to investigate […]
THE Democratic Party has called on government to unilaterally deduct money from the salaries of all officials and politicians who refuse to pay child maintenance. The call follows revelations that a string of senior Mpumalanga leaders have dodged paying child maintenance for up to ten months at a time. DP spokesman Manny De Camara said […]