Orlando Pirates squandered chances and came out two points poorer in the intense Premier Soccer League title race after a 1-1 draw with relegation-threatened Free State Stars at Ellis Park on Wednesday night. The draw was nothing less than a calamity for the Buccaneers.
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>The possibility of Jacob Zuma having contracted HIV from the woman he allegedly raped was discussed in the Johannesburg High Court on Thursday. The former deputy president has said he had unprotected and consensual sex with the woman on November 2 last year. Virology specialist Professor Desmond Martin told the court the risk of acquiring the virus through unprotected sex is three in 10 000.
A senior United Nations official on Wednesday called on politicians in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) not to disappoint the Congolese people during presidential and general elections on June 18. ”The Congolese people have very high expectations for democratic elections,” said Jean-Marie Guehenno, deputy UN secretary general.
A tele-recruiter of the South African National Blood Service has been suspended after telling a blood donor she was HIV-positive as a joke, media reports said on Thursday. The donor, a 19-year-old student, said: ”It was a very cruel joke. HIV/Aids is a serious matter that one cannot joke about.”
After 120 years of convincing companies of the merits of listing and being publicly traded, the JSE will on June 5 list on its own main board, joining peers including the London Stock Exchange. The move is the culmination of about five years of restructuring the bourse.
With the cost of education rising all the time, parents are well advised to start planning for this large expense sooner rather than later. According to Franzo Friedrich, head of marketing at FNB Insurance, education is one of the biggest expenses that most parents will have to face.
The JSE’s bull run may have resulted in capital growth of more than 50% a year for nearly three years, but it’s not run out of steam just yet — at least, that’s the view of Stanlib, which is still advising the hundreds of intermediaries marketing its funds to recommend to their clients that they continue to be "overweight" equities.
Tiger Woods and Ernie Els have ruled out shorter hitters from any hope of wearing the Masters’ champion green jacket after taking a sneak peek at changes at Augusta National Golf Club. Speaking on the eve of the ,5-million US PGA Bay Hill Invitational, world number one Woods warned that the course might now be the most difficult in golf.
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The rape trial of former deputy president Jacob Zuma enters its ninth day in the Johannesburg High Court on Thursday. After more than a week of sensational and at times graphic medical testimony, proceedings on Wednesday focused on the technicalities of the investigation.
A month ago, South African investors were exuberant. Both the currency and the stock market, after years of remarkable strength, seemed bullet proof. Suddenly, however, we found both our currency and our stock market being kicked for no apparent reason a week ago.