ALL eyes in Nigeria will on this weekend’s meeting of the Nigerian People’s Democratic Party in Jos, in the central plateau region, where party members meet to pick from a list headed by former military ruler Olusegun Obasanjo and former vice presidential candidate Alex Ekwueme. Obasanjo, a retired general who ran Nigeria from 1976 to […]

JUSTIN Hobday set a new course record by shooting a 61 (-11) in the first round of the South African Masters on Thursday at the Oppenheimer Park Golf Course in Welkom, Free State.

INTERNATIONAL investment bank Deutsche Bank is due to launch the first of its Index Tracking Certificate markets — linked to the Alsi 40 Index — on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Thursday. An ITC is a financial instrument listed on the JSE. The instrument tracks the performance of a specific underlying index — in this […]

SUDANESE civilians may be tried by military courts for crimes involving firearms, explosives, espionage, and military secrets, a source cited by the official Suna news agency said in Khartoum on Thursday. “If the army commander-in-chief and state prosecutor agree, civilians suspected of these crimes may be judged by the armed forces tribunal, responsible for the […]

THE South African Tennis Association on Wednesday decided to move the Euro-African Zone group 1 tie from Johannesburg to Cape Town after players expressed their concerns about playing at altitude. Despite signing a letter of commitment to hold the April 2-4 contest at Johannesburg’s Standard Bank venue, Sata has agreed to pay a penalty fee […]

SOUTH African wool prices climbed sharply at this week’s auction on the back of a weaker rand and a relatively small offering, Cape Wools said on Wednesday. The Cape Wools’ market indicator gained 3% on last week to R17,93/kg (clean). The rand weakened against the Australian dollar making South African wool cheaper than Australian wool.

THE Western Cape branch of the Jubilee 2000 campaign to end Third World debt is to be launched in Cape Town on Saturday. Announcing the launch on Wednesday, Jubilee 2000 said interest on the South Africa’s apartheid debt last year was R42,5-million and is set to increase this year. ”This is almost double the amount […]

FORMER Rwandan information minister Eliezer Niyitegeka, wanted by the United Nations’ war crimes tribunal for complicity in the 1994 genocide, has been arrested in Kenya. Niyitegeka, wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda since July 1996, was information minister under the interim government led by Jean Kambanda, who himself pleaded guilty to genocide and […]

SOUTH African Breweries said on Tuesday that it will publish its prospectus on Wednesday to coincide with the launch of a road show to promote its upcoming London listing. SAB, one of the world’s five biggest brewers, plans to move its primary listing to London in March. The road show begins in London on Wednesday. […]

DEPUTY Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad on Tuesday said South Africa will continue to support the peace process in Burundi, and to helping the country recover from years of internecine conflict. Pahad met with Mr Nzojibwami Augustine, Second Vice President of the Transitional Assembly of Burundi in Cape Town today. South Africa has been supporting the […]