The JSE was firmer in noon trade on Wednesday, with a sharply weaker rand boosting resources and dual-listed stocks. The heavyweight of the rand hedges distorted the true picture, which was actually a much more mixed one. By 12.15pm, the all share and all share industrial indices added 0,77% and 0,56% respectively.
Sales of music for use on cellphones are expected to nearly double over the next five years, a European cellular content provider said on Wednesday. From an estimated $7,4-billion this year, sales are expected to reach $13,6-billion in 2011, said Arena Mobile, a Spanish cellphone content supplier.
Police say it is too early to speculate over whether the shooting of Johannesburg businessman Anwar Mohammed was a hit or a failed hijacking. The 58-year-old was killed at the Glenhove onramp from the M1 freeway on Tuesday night. Mohammed had stopped his BMW at a traffic light when a passenger from a Volkswagen Polo approached his car and fired several shots.
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Coming into the World Cup, Côte d’Ivoire was widely regarded as the most talented team coming out of Africa. Now Ghana is the lone African team with a chance to qualify for the second round of the tournament, and the vanquished Elephants of Côte d’Ivoire are pulling for them.
The popularity of Iran’s controversial leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is surging almost a year after he won a closely contested presidential election, Iranian officials and Western diplomats said on Tuesday. Attributing his success to his populist style and fortnightly meet-the-people tours, the sources said that Ahmadinejad was the clear favourite to win a second term in 2009.
Almost half of Americans could never bring themselves to vote for Hillary Clinton in a presidential election, according to an opinion poll published on Tuesday which shows how much of a struggle the former first lady faces. The CNN poll will alarm the Clinton camp after finding that 47% of those questioned would ”definitely not vote for” the New York senator.
Nigerian police intensified efforts on Wednesday to seek the release of two Filipino oil workers a day after they were kidnapped near the oil city of Port Harcourt, a spokesperson said. "We are making frantic efforts to effect their release," Rivers state police spokesperson Ireju Barasua told Agence France-Presse.
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England finally got a result against Sweden it can live with. No, not a win — that has been too much to ask for. A 2-2 draw on Tuesday, however, was enough for the English to win Group B at the World Cup. Henrik Larsson tied it off a throw-in, getting the slightest touch to deflect the ball into the net in the 90th minute.
Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a car in the crowded Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza on Tuesday, missing targeted Palestinian militants but killing a teenager, two children and wounding nine people, clouding efforts to restart peace talks.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has written a letter to the group chief executive of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), asking him if there was any truth to reports that his corporation had banned four top political commentators.