Johnnic Communications on Friday announced the acquisition by Exclusive Books of Van Schaik Bookstore, a division of VIA Afrika Limited, for an undisclosed sum, subject to certain conditions precedent, including Competition Commission approval. Prakash Desai, Johncom group CEO, commented: "Van Schaiks provides a natural synergistic fit with Exclusive Books."
The JSE extended gains at noon trade on Friday, led by platinum miners on news that Switzerland will launch exchange-traded fund (ETF) next month. Hopes that Beijing will apply calculated measures to cool China’s overheating economy added to the broad-based buying on the local bourse, dealers said.
Cristiano Ronaldo, who was this week named as one of three Manchester United players on the shortlist for the PFA Player of the Year award, has shown this season he is the ”most exciting player in the country”, according to the union’s chief executive, Gordon Taylor.
If one in 10 people are gay, where are all the gay Premiership stars? It’s a question that is often asked, but there are only whispers, dodgy rumours and malicious media gossip for answers. Football, it seems, is one of the last professional environments where you cannot be out and proud.
A test of character, speed, stamina and endurance are part of the essentials for South African marathon champion Hendrick Ramaala’s quest to win Sunday’s London Marathon. The highly rated Ramaala, competing in this race for the fifth time, is going for victory in the race that will set him against some of the world’s finest marathon runners.
Success in football, as in all sports, is a function of skill, application, self-belief and providence. For Friday’s third-round CAF Africa Champions Cup between South African champions Mamelodi Sundowns and Egypt’s Al-Ahly, no amount of divine intervention could be too great.
Darth Vader has metamorphosed from an innocent boy to one of cinema’s quintessential symbols of evil. But now he’s getting back to his roots — in Japan. A Tokyo-based traditional doll maker, arguing that Darth Vader was inspired by Japan’s samurai knights, has designed a pitch-black set of armour fashioned after the Galactic Empire’s dreaded enforcer.
The Cricket World Cup is a collection of anti-stories. Its coverage has concerned all the stuff that is not happening: the scintillating world-class cricket that hasn’t taken place, that isn’t being witnessed by crowds, that haven’t shown up to occupy arenas, that aren’t finished. Plus, of course, the apparent murder that hasn’t been solved.
Police, students and victims’ relatives turned against the United States network NBC on Thursday for broadcasting the chilling rant of the Virginia Tech killer, as it became clear he had gone to great lengths to amplify his notoriety with a package of video clips, photographs and invective.
A London council has decided where to place a statue of former South African president Nelson Mandela, after five years of wrangling, it announced late on Thursday. The sculpture will be placed on Parliament Square in Westminster, central London, alongside statues of former British prime ministers Winston Churchill and Benjamin Disraeli.