OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 7.00pm. KAIZER Chiefs face a determined Bush Bucks squad in their BobSave Super Bowl quarterfinal match in Umtata and will need to be firing on all cylinders to make the semis. Surprise quarterfinalists Ria Stars face SuperSport United, who are odds-on favourites to move through this round to face the […]
SHARES in pharmaceutical firm South African Druggists rose on Tuesday morning after Fedsure said last Friday that it is close to tying up a long-running bid to win SAD’s health care interests. Fedsure announced that it had sold its 34% majority shareholding in SAD to financial group Investec for R33 a share. Under the deal, […]
REAL wholesale trade sales (excluding diamonds) rose 2,4% in the three months to January, compared to the corresponding period a year ago, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. Seasonally adjusted sales rose 0,4% in January compared to December. Five of the nine wholesalers categories reflected increases. The largest percentage increase was reflected by wholesalers in […]
SOMALI gunmen shot and killed a United States woman working for a church aid organisation in southern Somalia on Saturday, a Kenyan police statement has confirmed.Deena Marie Umbarger of the United Methodist Committee had gone to Kiamboni area of Somalia on a humanitarian mission. She was eating with Adqwani sub-clan elders in a restaurant when […]
ANOTHER 160 government soldiers fleeing the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrived in northern Zambia, bringing the total to more than 900, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees said. UNHCR spokesperson Dominik Bartsch said on Tuesday that the deserters crossed the border over the past two days. Last week, more […]
POP idol Michael Jackson said on Tuesday he will stage two concerts in June to raise funds for South African President Nelson Mandela’s children’s fund, the Red Cross and UNESCO. The first concert will be held in the Olympic stadium in Seoul on June 25, and will be followed two days later by a performance […]
THE lover of South Africa’s alleged cash-heist kingpin, Collin Chauke, will appear in the Nelspruit district court on Wednesday on charges of harbouring a wanted a criminal. Duduzile Rejoice Nkosi (30) has already appeared twice in court on the charge and has not been asked to plead. She is out on bail of R1000. Nkosi […]
A GROUP of armed Liberian soldiers who stormed a village in the western part of the country looted homes and raped several women, independent radio reports said in the capital, Monrovia, on Wednesday. The incident occurred last week in Dambala, 110km west of Monrovia, in a town bordering neighbouring Sierra Leone. The rampaging soldiers, who […]
THE ruling Togolese People’s Assembly (RPT) won 79 of the 81 seats in the national assembly in weekend elections boycotted by the opposition, the head of the national electoral commission said late on Tuesday. Electoral head Abdoulaye Yaya said on state television that turn-out reached 66%, while the opposition said only 10% of voters cast […]
FOREIGN bidders, particularly those from Asia, were conspicuously absent from the 1999 Nederberg Wine Auction held at the weekend. Local buyers snapped up some 84% of sales at the premier wine auction, with foreign buyers coming in with very thin demand. Namibia bought 6,22% of sales, with only Denmark and Sweden showing much interest in […]