Mining company JCI is moving into Africa in a big way, reports Karen Harverson Unbundled mining company JCI Limited is vigorously expanding throughout Africa in the search for mineral Business development general manager Peter McKenna says most of JCI’s projects in Africa are still in the early development stages, but if successful, he expects gold […]

Neil Bierbaum AN independent advertising “sales house” has been launched to facilitate the buying of advertising airtime on television in the new multichannel Oracle Airtime Sales Limited (Oracle) will represent those channels in the MultiChoice bouquet available off PanAmSat4 (Pas4) which will take advertising. It is not yet clear which channels will take advertising, although […]

DNA forensics is used widely in South Africa, but a recent supreme court case in Cape Town exposed serious flaws in its application, reports Rehana Rossouw There are probably millions of people throughout the world who by now have heard of “the bloody glove” and its alleged proof of American sports superstar OJ Simpson’s involvement […]

Meshack Mabogoane When the African Bank went through its first major scam involving forex irregularities in 1988, the Reserve Bank seconded Jack Theron, an experienced banker from Trust Bank, to take over from then-chief executive Moses Maubane. Theron’s brief was to salvage the mess, then hand the reigns back to a black chief executive. Ironically […]

More than 100 rhino horns which were to be used to trap smugglers have gone missing, reports Ann Eveleth MORE than 100 rhino horns purchased by a controversial group of British special forces officers from the Natal Parks Board in the late 1980s, supposedly for a “sting” operation to trap smugglers, have gone missing and […]

Paul Stober Game reserves in remote areas under the control of the KwaZulu Department of Nature Conservation (KDNC) are being used to train members of the Inkatha Freedom Party’s self-protection units (SPUs), according to a report by the Network of Independent Monitors (NIM). The Durban-based violence monitoring organisation has alleged the Port Durnford forest reserve […]

Rehana Rossouw DISTRICT SIX could be the first case to be heard by the Land Claims Court, but the issue it will address — hotly disputed by some former residents — is whether to block individual restitution claims in parts of the The area is internationally regarded as a symbol of the Group Areas Act […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift IT WAS, as Ali Bacher commented before the announcement of the squad for the short tour of Zimbabwe next month, “an interesting side”. It was made even more intriguing by the rationale offered by convenor of selectors Peter The squad which will travel north between October 10-23 is, Pollock maintains, “an experiment […]

After a year away from the game, Jeff Butler has returned to coach Kaizer Chiefs SOCCER: Lungile Madywabe WITH eight weeks to go before the end of the season, the deadline for the registration of players in NSL teams has come and gone. Kaizer Chiefs were reported to be interested in the services of Ernest […]