SPAIN’S Alberto Martin captured his first ATP Tour tennis singles title on Sunday, winning the $215000 Casablanca Open with a 6-3 6-4 win over compatriot Fernando Vicente. The 20-year-old Barcelona-born Martin, ranked 94th in the world, saw off Vicente, two years his senior and the world number 54 in an hour and 18 minutes. Like […]
SOUTH Africa’s poultry industry will apply for anti-dumping measures to be taken against the United States following the apparent failure of tariff adjustments to various imports, says the Southern African Poultry Association. The association claims that adjusted tariffs have not slowed imports from the US, as much as 11000 tons of leg quarters between November […]
THE United Nations Rwandan war crimes tribunal on Monday freed an ex-army officer accused of killing Rwanda’s prime minister in 1994 and currently wanted for trial in Belgium on murder charges. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, sitting in Arusha Tanzania, rejected a demand that Major Bernard Ntuyahaga, who is charged with the murder of […]
ORGANISED crime, drug abuse, domestic violence and corruption are the most serious non-political threat to the political stability of nations, United Nations under secretary-general Pino Arlacchi said in Pretoria on Monday. Arlacchi, who is on a five-day visit to South Africa, said in a speech in Pretoria that these problems threaten to undermine nation-building and […]
CASH-in-transit heist suspect Collin Chauke and four of his fellow prison inmates embarked on a hunger strike in Pretoria’s C-Max prison over the weekend. Correctional Services spokesperson Rudi Potgieter says that Chauke is dissatisfied with both the quality and the quantity of the prison’s food. Asked whether prisoners were adequately fed, Potgieter said that all […]
SHARES in sport television company SuperSport International Holdings gained more than 3% on Monday after it announced it was to acquire a stake in the Natal Rugby Union. By 12:30pm, the share had gained 10 cents or 3,03% to 340 cents in thin volume. SuperSport advised its shareholders in a cautionary notice that the company […]
HUNDREDS of Zulu’s gathered at at the King Zwelithini Stadium in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, on Sunday morning to commemorate the 1994 Shell House massacre. In 1994 eight Zulu marchers were shot dead in front of the African National Congress Shell House headquarters when a gathering of Zulu demonstrators marched through Johannesburg in support of the Zulu […]
AN underground plastic pipeline, carrying non-uranium bearing chemical effluent to one of the evaporation pans of the Atomic Energy Corporation leaked, releasing fluoride containing effluent into the Moganwe Spruit, the AEC said on Friday. The leak occured on March 18 and “immediate corrective actions were taken,” the AEC said. The pumping of effluent was stopped […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 12.15pm. THE state’s debt burden has almost doubled over the past five years, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel told Parliament on Monday. Two of the main reasons are the rand’s devaluation and high interest rates, according to Sake-Beeld. Replying to a question in the national council of provinces, Manuel said […]
UGANDAN troops killed 18 Rwandan Hutu extremists and captured four others, including one believed to have taken part in the murder of eight foreign tourists on March 1, the state-owned New Vision reported on Monday. The paper reported that Lieutenant Colonel Benon Biraro, the overall commander for western Uganda, said a clash between the troops […]