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 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 & […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
ROB DAVIES, Johannesburg | Monday 3.00pm. THE proposed issuing of 20 whale-watching licences to boat-based opearators by the environmental affairs and tourism department in order to capitalise on the tourism value of southern right whales off the Southern African coast has caused a stir in environmental circles. Environmentalists like Nan Rice director of Save the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Monday 6.30pm. ANGOLAN rebel movement Unita on Monday announced that it is to sever all contact with the United States, Russian and Portugese observers monitoring the crumbling peace process under the auspices of the United Nations. In a written statement issued from Unita’s central highland stronghold Bailundo, the movement said the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dakar | Sunday 9.45pm. NIGERIA won 23 medals, including 11 golds, earning the tag of being the best athletic team on the continent at the 11th African athletics championships which ended in Dakar on Saturday. South Africa placed second with a haul of 11 medals, including seven golds. The Kenyan team did not […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Sunday 7.30PM BUOYED by his allies’ weekend military successes against advancing rebels, Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila has rejected Sunday’s Southern African Development Community ceasefire proposal, insisting all Rwandan and Ugandan troops must first withdraw from DRC territory. “What we have said all along is that this rebellion is […]