WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: BAFANA BAFANA stars Mark Fish and Philemon Masinga left Johannesburg for Italy on Wednesday. Both players have changed clubs in Italy after playing there for one season. Fish, who joined Lazio from Orlando Pirates last season, joins Bologna. “The problem at Lazio is the club has accrued the maximum of five foreign signings […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM FOOD and beverage group Cadbury Schweppes says it is investigating the possibility of buying bottling machinery from New Age Beverages, the local Pepsi bottler currently in provisional liquidation. MD David Jackson said the company has forwarded detailes to its UK parent firm to ascertain whether any of its global units are interested in […]
WEDNESDAY, 3.00PM THE Bushbuckridge Border Committee, the organisation which has been articulating the community’s demands in the acrimonious provincial border dispute in the area, on Wednesday refused to comment on a compromise proposal aimed at solving the border dispute, despite ostensibly being one of the parties to the agreement. On Tuesday Constitutional Affairs Minister Mohamed […]
CRIMINALS USING POLICE NETWORKS SAFETY and security minister Sydney Mufamadi says that international crime syndicates have penetrated South Africa, relying on the underground contacts built up by former police and intelligence agents. A Bulgarian syndicate that arrived in this country had complete South African papers including vehicle registation documents, which could only have been supplied […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM FORMER apartheid homeland broadcasters are to be integrated into the SA Broadcasting Corporation as soon as an audit of their assets has been finalised and all parties consulted, SABC communications head Enoch Sithole said on Tuesday. Sithole said the integration is expected to take place within the month, and a comprehensive report will […]
WEDNESDAY, 12.00NOON ZIMBABWEAN market analysts are confident that the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange will rise to new heights this year, thanks to the recent IMF decision to resume balance-of-payments support for Zimbabwe’s economic reforms and the budget, reducing the pressure on interest rates. The industrial index, which in 1996 rose by a whopping 121%, was on […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM GOLD’s recent downward spiral continued on Tuesday after a few days of consolidation, with the metal closing in London at $319,75/oz. Morning trade in London saw bullion trading at $319, before it climbed bask up to $320 for a while in the afternoon. Gold’s drop back below $320 has precipitated fears of a […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM SOUTH Africa’s reserves have been left largely untouched by the July 1 easing of restrictions on foreign exchange, according to Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, and instead there had been a turn for the better in business confidence. Speaking at Tuesday night’s launch of the local operation of Malaysia’s TA Bank, Manuel said SA’s […]
WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: THE FEDERATION of International Football Associations’ (Fifa) newly introduced rules will come into effect at the Iwisa Charity Soccer Spectacular on Saturday. The Premier Soccer League’s referees boss, Errol Sweeney, said on Tuesday: “We are reminding referees, clubs and the public that Fifa introduced the rules at the World Youth Championships last month”. […]
WEDNESDAY, 3.30PM A POLICE general has agreed to testify at the amnesty hearing of confessed police torturer Captain Jeff Benzien to confirm that “unconventional interrogation methods” were authorised at the highest level during the apartheid conflict. Benzien’s lawyer, Gustav Cook, made the announcement on Wednesday shortly before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee adjourned […]