SOUTH African golf star Ernie Els, ranked world number five in the latest rankings, heads the European Tour money list after the Heineken Classic in Australia. Els has earned 169045. over the past year. FIFA WARNING COUNTRIES bidding to host the 2006 World Cup have been warned by FIFA that they will be struck off […]

SOUTH African Breweries announced to retailers on Monday that it is to increase the price of its wholesale beer by up to 10%. The rise could see the consumer paying considerably more for a beer after accounting for VAT and varying mark-ups. According to SAB the price of cans — both 340ml and long-toms — […]

MOZAMBIQUE’S ailing light aircraft charter service, TTA, threatened to return the company to the state on Tuesday unless it was granted domestic passenger routes. TTA was initially promised a share of domestic passenger routes when it was privatised in August 1997 but has been unable to pry licences for flights out of the national airline, […]

OLD Mutual Fund Managers — UK-based unit trust arm of Old Mutual International — was last week fined 20000 by an investment regulatory body for failing to correctly price the assets of four unit trusts under its management. Business Report reports that the British Investment Management Regulatory Organisation said the breaches occurred between July 1 […]

DEPUTY President Thabo Mbeki and visiting Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao signed several agreements on Monday to boost bilateral trade between the two countries. The bilateral agreements target air services, trade, economic and technical co-operation, and a joint economic and trade commission. Trade between the two countries stood at $1,8-billion last year.

RONNIE ELLIOTT, Pretoria | Wednesday 8.30pm “PEOPLE’s poet” Mzwakhe Mbuli denied on Wednesday that he was involved in a robbery at the First National Bank in Waverley in Pretoria on October 28 1997, implying he was framed. Mbuli, Happy Shikwambane and Ben Masiso are on trial in the Pretoria Regional Court in connection with the […]

THE N1 highway south of Warmbaths in Northern Province was closed on Wednesday morning after 800 bags of highly explosive, powdered Xanthnate fell on to the road. Police spokesperson Captain Blackie Swart said waste disposal experts were called into remove the powder before it rained. People within a one-kilometre radius were evacuated. The powder — […]

A LAWSUIT by former employees of Thor Chemicals in Cato Ridge near Durban will go ahead in England, the British Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday. The British-based multinational appealed on Wednesday against a lower court ruling in July 1998 that the group of workers, who claim they suffered mercury poisoning at Thor’s Cato Ridge […]

MPUMALANGA highway patrol has crashed and written off one of ten new hi-tech patrol vehicles — only 48 hours after receiving them. The patrol vehicles, which cost the province R1,2-million, are being punted as the most technologically advanced in the country with radar, computer tracking systems and surveillance cameras. The equipment however failed to prevent […]

THE Red Cross in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, is assessing damage caused by Tuesday night’s floods near the town. At least 15 shacks were washed away in Copesville and there was severe damage at Bulwer, Edendale and Mountain Rise after a heavy downpour. Two people are believed to have drowned trying to cross a flooded bridge.