OVERALL business confidence rose by one percentage point but remained at a very low level during the first quarter of the year, according to a survey released by the Bureau for Economic Research on Tuesday. The bureau said the small rise in its index suggests that the recessionary conditions of the second half of 1998 […]
WAGE demands by the Commercial Workers Union threaten to drive Telkom’s salary bill up by R1-billion this year, if approved. Sake Beeld reports that the CWU is insisting on a 16% increase and considerable improvements to its supplementary benefits. Telkom has offered its approximately 60000 workers a 2,5% raise, with a 3% production bonus, if […]
PREMIER League club Sundowns say they will withdraw from the African Champions League unless a match against Telecom Wanderers from Malawi next Sunday is televised. Sundowns, who won the first leg 2-1 in Blantyre, want the first-round match screened so they can sell billboard advertising at Odi Stadium, north-west of Pretoria. Unlike most African clubs, […]
THE Department of Justice has confirmed that two French magistrates are in the country to investigate the whereabouts of former senior Elf Aquitaine oil executive Alfred Sirven. Magistrates Eva Joly and Laurence Vichnievsky are investigating Sirven, who fled France in 1996 after his boss, Loik Le Floch-Prigent, was detained for alleged fraud while he was […]
NIGERIAN footballer Peter Rufai prefers football to the prospect of becoming king of a million people in succession to his late father. Spanish press reports said on Tuesday that the 35-year-old reserve goalie for Spanish first division side Deportivo de la Coruna is being urged to return home to become king of the Idimu in […]
ZAMBIAN police arrested and charged The Post editor-in-chief Fred M’membe on Monday with espionage, along with nine other journalists from the paper. M’membe was released immediately on bail. He was informed that he will appear in court along with the other journalists on April 16, although police indicated that he might appear earlier. The arrest […]
FORMER Wallaby centre James Holbeck will return from injury for the ACT Brumbies in their Super 12 match against the Bulls on Saturday night. Holbeck replaces the injured Adam Magro, while Damien McInally comes on to the wing in place of Mitch Hardy, who aggravated a groin strain in the Brumbies’ victory over the Stormers […]
NATIONAL cricketer Makhaya Ntini appeared in the East London Regional Court on Wednesday charged with rape, SABC radio news reports. A 22-year-old Butterworth woman told the court Ntini raped her in a public toilet at the Buffalo Park cricket ground last December 2. She said she lived near Ntini at the time and had asked […]
UNITED States first lady Hillary Clinton visited the Luxor temple in Egypt on Wednesday where 58 foreign tourists were massacred in November 1997. Egyptian officials are hoping that the visit will provide a shot in the arm to a tourist industry damaged by the Luxor massacre. Fifty-eight tourists, most of them Swiss, and four Egyptians […]
THE appeal against the the Pretoria High Court ruling that President Nelson Mandela acted unconstitutionally in appointing an inquiry into the affairs of the South African Rugby Football Union has been postponed to May. The appeal is before the Constitutional Court. The respondents in the case are Sarfu, the Gauteng Rugby Union, Mpumalanga Rugby Union […]