FRIDAY, 6.30PM: PAKISTAN’S batting collapsed in their second innings on Monday, leaving them reeling at 120/7. Asked to chase 394 for victory, the tourists were always going to have a hard task but, as in the first innings, their batting could not take the South African attack’s pressure. Allan Donald picked up two wickets, with […]
MONDAY, 6.30PM: ANGOLAN rebel movement Unita on Friday declared the complete demilitarisation of its troops, bringing to an end the tortuous demilitarisation process and finally meeting the key condition in the 1994 United Nations-brokered peace accord. The long-awaited declaration, signed by Unita vice-president Antonio Sebastiao Dembo, that “Unita declares its complete demilitarisation from today, March […]
MONDAY, 12.45PM: AFRICAN Explosives and Chemical Industries (AECI) has reported a 14% drop in full-year earnings, but says it will return to a real earnings growth this year. Group managing director Mike Smith attributed the earnings drop to R187-million lost at the Kynoch fertiliser plant through production difficulties and low nitrogen prices. Most of the […]
MONDAY, 11.45AM: THE Coastal Sharks reaffirmed their position as contenders for the Super-12 crown by demolishing the Western Stormers by 32-17 at Kings Park on Saturday. The Sharks and Springbok skipper Gary Teichmann scored two tries in a thrilling performance in front of his home crowd. Heartening to see was the return to form of […]
MONDAY, 12.45PM: TWO weeks of striking by security industry employees has been ended by a settlement reached between unions and employers over the weekend. The settlement follows the Labour Court of Appeal’s judgement on Thursday upholding a previous decision deeming the strike to be legal. In both cases, the applications of employers to have the […]
MONDAY, 2.00PM: SPORTS Minister Steve Tshwete said on Sunday that the constitutional “impasse” caused on Thursday when National Council of Provinces Chairman Patrick “Terror” Lekota refused to allow Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s Adjustments Appropiation Bill to be debated after 10 Cabinet ministers failed to attend the sitting, was “resolved” after hours of top-level government deliberations […]
Investing in listed companies with interests in the gaming sector may be a dangerous gamble, but some are bound to hit the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) jackpot. Legislation passed a year ago legalised casino gaming in South Africa for the first time, setting in place a race between local and international gaming companies for the […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: THE Sri Lankan touring cricket squad, who arrived in the country on Wednesday, are set to thrill the crowds with their brand of entertaining and exciting cricket. True to form, the Lankans promised to play “positive cricket” during the upcoming triangular series against South Africa and Pakistan. Team manager Dulip Mendis said the […]
Andrew Worsdale: Movie of the week If Barry Levinson had got hold of the script for Good Will Hunting he would have turned it into another Rain Man – mawkish, sentimental and filled with the kind of Hollywood gloss that makes a potentially touching story just seem unreal. So it’s a credit to producer Lawrence […]
Andy Duffy, is truly muddle-headed. In his article “UWC debt collector’s deal”(February 13 to 19) he gets his story wrong in so many areas that I must wonder about his competence. Now for the facts: Professor Ikey van de Rheede was appointed as vice-rector (student affairs) by the broad-based process which the university adopted in […]