ANGLO American Platinum Corporation on Monday announced an increase in headline earnings of R291,1-million or 70,3% to R705,2-million for the six months to the end of December. This comes after headline earnings of R414,1-million for the same period last year. Dividends per share rose by 69,6% to 195 cents per share.

A MEMBER of vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs was granted bail in the Oudtshoorn Magistrate Court on Monday. Yacoob Jacobs and four other Pagad accused face charges with car theft and illegal possession of firearms, ammunition and two detonators in connection with an alleged plot to bomb Parliament. They were arrested en route […]

PRESIDENT Ibrahim Bare Mainassara of Niger arrived in Paris on Tuesday at the start of a four-day official visit. He is due to meet his French counterpart Jacques Chirac on Thursday. A meeting with top officials of Codema, one of the main players in the mining of uranium, Niger’s most lucrative resource, is also planned. […]

INTERNATIONAL sprinter Michael Johnson will come to South Africa for the Engen Grand Prix Summer Series. The series consists of meets in Pietersburg on March 13, Roodepoort on March 19 and Cape Town on March 26. Johnson (31) dominates international sprinting at 200m and 400m and has done so since the 1990 season and his […]

HOPING to speed up its work, the United Nations tribunal, which is trying suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of nearly 800000 opened a third courtroom on Monday and swore in three new judges. The new chamber, in Arusha, Tanzania, will help “bring to justice those who committed heinous crimes in Rwanda,” said tribunal spokesperson […]

SOUTH African Rugby Football Union chief Rian Oberholzer reminded provincial rugby coaches on Monday that unless they choose black players for the Currie Cup, Sarfu will force them to do so. Oberholzer stressed that the burden of proof lay with the provinces, since black players had not been given a fair chance so far. The […]

VILLAGERS in Mpumalanga’s rural hinterland have refused to register for the coming elections and have instead accused the Independent Electoral Commission of paving the way for the Anti-Christ. People in villages such as Daggakraal chased IEC registration officers out of their villages last week, insisting the campaign to issue bar-coded ID books smacks of biblical […]

A BUMPER crop of 905000 tons of sunflower seeds is expected this season, the National Crop Estimates Committee said on Monday. In its first official estimate for the 1999/2000 season, the crops body said 828000 hectares have been planted compared to 511000 hectares last season. Last year’s crop was 562000 tons.

BRIAN LARA was retained on Monday night as West Indies captain for the first two of four Tests against Australia, the West Indies Cricket Board president Pat Rousseau said. There have been calls for Lara’s dismissal as captain after the West Indies were beaten 5-0 in Tests and 6-1 in one-day internationals in South Africa […]

ZIMBABWE will try and reverse a decision to strip them of the 2000 African Nations Cup when they meet African soccer supremo Issa Hayatou on March 6 in Ghana. Hayatou chaired Confederation of African Football talks in Cte d’Ivoire last month which charged Zimbabwe with making insufficient progress in building stadiums or developing media infrastructure. […]