SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.00pm. THE inflation rate — the annual rate of change in the Consumer Price Index — was 6,6% at July 1998, the latest figures from the Central Statistical Services released on Tuesday indicate. This rate is 1,4 percentage points higher than the annual rate of 5,2% calculated in June, largely […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Washington | Monday 8.00pm. BRITAIN and the United States on Monday agreed that the two Libyans accused of the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, should be tried under Scottish law, with a panel of Scottish judges, in the Netherlands. Announcing the agreement US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 9.45pm. BOLAND played stunning rugby to beat an uncharacteristically out of form Griqualand West side 17-13 in a Bankfin Currie Cup match played in Wellington on Sunday. A penalty in injury time of the first half gave Griquas a 8-7 lead, which they increased to 13-7 five minutes into the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 2.15pm. THE tourism industry could create five million jobs in South Africa in the next 12 years, but only if the country can provide good service and ensure the health and safety of tourists, Environment Affairs and Tourism Minister Dr Pallo Jordan said on Monday. Speaking at the Food & […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Monday 10.00PM THE leopard that attacked and killed a 25-year-old Kruger National Park ranger, Charles Swart, over the weekend was old and desperately hungry after apparently being forced out of its traditional hunting area by younger challengers, park director David Mabunda said on Monday evening. Preliminary medical examinations indicate that Swart […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.45pm. THE European Investment Bank on Monday granted the first private South African company a R229-million loan. The loan, granted on the strength of a new new guarantee facility provided by the Development Bank of Southern Africa, is viewed as a breakthrough for the private sector as the EIB does […]
SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Monday 7.45pm. GROSS domestic product rose an annualised 0,3% in the second quarter this year, slowing down from a 0,5% growth in the first quarter, the latest figures released by the Central Statistical Service on Monday indicated. ING Barings chief economist Kristina Quattek said the weak GDP growth figure give an […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cabinda | Monday 10.30PM THE Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday accused South Africa of “behind-curtains manoeuvres”. DRC justice minister Mwenze Kongolo, in SA to represent DRC President Laurent Kabila at the Southern African Development Community summit called by President Nelson Mandela at the weekend, told reporters in Pretoria that a signal from […]
SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Friday 5.15pm. INVESTORS pulled out of South African markets with a flood on Friday leaving the market to end the week on bear run that eroded most of the week’ earlier gains. Dealers described the day as “utterly dismal” with uncertainty in the currency market and general global market jitters pulling […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 1.00PM FORMER cleric and anti-apartheid activist Dr Allan Boesak (52) appeared in the Cape High Court on Monday to face 32 fraud and theft charges totalling R1,1-million, relating to alleged misuse of overseas donor funds. Boesak pleaded not guilty to all the charges. The charges relate to funding for […]