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 […]
INFLATION in Nigeria rose sharply in the second half of 1998, hitting an estimated annual rate of 15% in December, according to a government report published on Wednesday. “Inflation rose from a low level of 6% in the 12-month period ending March 1998 to an estimated 15% in December 1998,” says the report prepared by […]
SPRINGBOK James Dalton faces assault charges following a fracas in a Johannesburg health club in which a staff member was injured, newspaper reports said Wednesday. Health club employee Bruce Johnson (27) laid charges of assault against Dalton following the incident. An unnamed police source told The Star newspaper that Johnson had a number of facial […]
A GAUTENG man was fined R11000 in the Estcourt Magistrate’s Court for speeding and failing to stop when instructed to do so by a traffic officer. KwaZulu-Natal traffic spokesperson Vijen Murugan said Mitch Visser’s driver’s licence was also suspended for six months after he was clocked driving at 200km/h on the N3 near Estcourt on […]
AT least 20 people were killed when a passenger train derailed and overturned between the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and the port city of Mombasa early on Wednesday, police said. The accident occurred between Kyulu and Tsavo river next to Tsavo National Park, in southern Kenya. Police spokesperson Albert Waweru said some carriages fell off the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]