WEDNESDAY 8.30AM: THE school year began in four provinces on Tuesday, with primary schools turning away Grade 1 pupils who failed to register on time, or whose parents were attempting to register them in schools outside their home districts. But while schools in mainly white suburbs were overcrowded, principals of township schools reported a large […]

WEDNESDAY, 3.00PM: SOME 300 school children, all of them aged under 12, rioted in Harare on Tuesday, vandalising a bar belonging to a local MP when they discovered that their school had been turned into a high school without their knowledge. The pupils of Glenview Primary School arrived for the first day of term on […]

WEDNESDAY 4.00PM: COURT cases around the country will be delayed from Thursday morning as prosecutors in magistrates courts refuse to work overtime in protest against the justice department’s suspension of overtime pay. And the Society of State Advocates said that advocates in the office of the attorney general in Pretoria will join the overtime ban. […]

WEDNESDAY, 5.30PM: The JSE all share index ended near the day’s highs, encouraged by a stronger rand and gold price. Upward movements on the Dow Jones and Hang Send indices, ending on 7 723,13 on Tuesday and at 9 226,55 on Wednesday respectively were supportive. At the close the financial index was up 256,1 points […]

WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: CAPE TOWN Spurs, so brilliant at the weekend against Chiefs, disappointed in a dull goalless draw against AmaZulu at the Kings Park soccer stadium in Durban on Tuesday evening. Spurs played unimaginative football, and were hardly a shadow of the side that steamrollered Kaizer Chiefs 4-2 at the weekend. Meanwhile Chiefs spokesperson Louis […]

TUESDAY, 11.30AM: SHAREHOLDERS in Gold Fields of SA, Gencor, Oryx, Beatrix, New Wits and Kloof threw their support behind the scheme of arrangement for Goldco on Tuesday. Alan Wright, the proposed deputy chairman of Goldco said the more than 90% of shareholders in support of the new company demonstrated massive confidence in Goldco. However, markets […]

WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: NAMIBIAN Coach Rusten Mogane has warned his Bafana Bafana counterpart Jomo Sono not to underestimate his team when they meet in a Cosafa cup clash in Windhoek next Saturday. Mogane yesterday said he believed that the exclusion of experienced players like Doc Khumalo, Eric Tinkler and Shoes Moshoeu could prove costly to Bafana […]

TUESDAY, 3.30PM: JONATHAN OPPENHEIMER will captain the Nicky Oppenheimer XI to face Pakistan in their opening tour match of South Africa, starting January 29. Pakistan’s tour of more than a month will include three Tests against the South African national squad. The opening match of the tour will be played at Oppenheimer’s Randjesfontein Oval, where […]

TUESDAY, 5.30PM: WITHIN seven minutes of opening on Tuesday, the JSE all share index had gained almost 120 points, but subsided somewhat as investors sold into the rally. At the day’s close the financial index was up 208,3 points at 9 550,9 and the industrial index was 142,4 points higher at 6 857,5. The all […]

TUESDAY, 11.00AM: THE Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa has begun a restructuring programme that will see several of its divisions merged, to leave the body with four divisions. The four divisions to remain will be: trade, customs and monetary affairs; investment promotion and private sector development; infrastructure development; and information. Comesa acting secretary-general […]