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 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 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 […]
TUESDAY, 11.30AM SOUTH Korea’s Daewoo Motor Company is on the verge of making a decision on a car assembly plant in South Africa, according to the company’s SA public relations manager Nick Bates. “Port Elizabeth is high on the list of priorities, as is Pretoria; obviously becasue of the motor industry already situated there. But […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM: NEW Zealand rugby coach John Hart on Monday attacked the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) for changing the venue for Saturday’s Tri-nations match between the Springboks and All Blacks. The match was initially scheduled for Loftus Versfeld stadium, but was changed to Ellis Park in January because the then Springbok coach, Andre […]
TUESDAY, 4.30PM FORMER head of the erstwhile National Intrelligence Service Niel Barnard told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Tuesday that several people currently occupying prominent leadership positions in SA had supplied information to the apartheid intelligence agency during the 1980s. Barnard, now Director-General of the Western Cape, was subpoenaed to by the TRC to […]