OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 11.00AM. WITH the expiry on Friday of World Cup rugby contracts, Springbok rugby players on Thursday meet South African Rugby Football Union CEO Rian Oberholzer to discuss new pay packages. Bok coach Nick Mallett, captain Gary Teichmann, vice-captain Joost van der Westhuizen, James Dalton and Andrew Aitken sit down […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 7.30PM. INTERNATIONAL rating agency Duff and Phelps Credit Rating Company (DCR) on Wednesday reaffirmed South Africa’s BBB- long-term foreign currency and A- long-term rand ratings. The London-based agency added that the outlook on rating remains solid. In its review, DCR said the ratings were reaffirmed due to the government’s “due […]
SARAH BULLEN in Johannesburg | Wednesday 7.00PM. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange bounced back in the last half hour of trade on Wednesday to end stronger on most key indices after slowly drifting lower for most of the day. Foreign markets provided the focus for the day’s trade with a 93-point fall in Dow Jones Industrial […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Thursday 10.00PM. MOZAMBICAN authorities on Thursday again accused South Africa of aggravating the drought in Mozambique by not releasing water from the Inkomati river as agreed. According to Romao Mutisse, district administrator for Moamba, 90km east of Maputo, South Africa is supposed to release two cubic metres of water per second […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Sri Lanka | Thursday 11.30AM. THE monsoon-soaked tour by the South African A cricket team to Sri Lanka finally saw its first full day’s play on Wednesday. After a false start at Kandy a week ago, the sun finally came out at the De Soysa stadium in Moratuwa on Thursday to give the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT Durban | Thursday 10.00PM. ABOUT 1000 residents have marched on the Richmond police station to demand the re-arrest of United democratic Movement leader and local strongman Sifiso Nkabinde. The marchers also demanded the removal of certain local police from the KwaZulu-Natal midlands town where almost 40 people have died this month. In the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Wednesday, 7.00PM ANGOLAN Unita rebels took the strategic town of Mussende in the north of the country overnight, according to the Kwanza-Sul provincial government. Mussende, a farming town located at an important crossroads linking Malanje, Kwanza-Norte and Kwanza-Sul provinces, was a stronghold of the rebels backing Jonas Savimbi during the civil […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.00PM. LABOUR unions this year managed to negotiate high wage settlement despite a low inflation rate, Johannesburg-based industrial relations and labour law consultancy Andrew Levy and Associates said on Tuesday. Releasing the results of a survey polling 200 companies, the consultancy said that while the inflation rate January to May […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.00AM. FORMER International Boxing Federation bantamweight champion Mbulelo Botile was too hot to handle at the Carousel on Tuesday night, forcing Filipino Dino Olivetti to throw in the towel at the beginning of the sixth round. The technical knock-out is another step towards champion status as a fully fledged featherweight […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 3.00PM. THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard on Wednesday how police faked a bomb at a showing of the film Cry Freedom. One of the generals who arranged the elaborate charade, Johan le Roux, told the hearing that when the Publications Appeal Board in 1988 allowed the Weekly Mail Film […]