In their World Cup run, South Africa are playing Russian roulette — with two bullets chambered. Bafana Bafana’s progress to the World Cup is now an ambition rather than a certainty after losing lead of the group to Ghana. Although both teams have 15 points, Ghana’s position at the top is not just down to alphabetical order or goal difference.
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was mixed in noon trade on Friday in a market that lacked overall drivers. While heavyweight dual-listed stocks were generally firmer on the back of positive performances offshore, moves in the rest of the market were mostly stock specific, dealers said.
Michael Owen wants to go home. Real Madrid want him to go home. Newcastle simply want him and have offered a club record £16-million to end their Premiership drought. And in World Cup year, England’s leading goal-scorer finds himself in limbo.
Jane Taylor is an academic of note and only someone familiar with the world of academe would devise such an astonishing motive for a homicide, in her new novel <i>Of wild dogs</i>, writes Barbara Ludman.
After the Chinese herb mocrea in the 1990s and the African potato five years ago, moringa powder is the latest craze for Zimbabweans battling one of the world’s highest HIV/Aids infection rates. ”Do you want to feel well, have a healthy appetite and live longer?” a pamphlet on a supermarket noticeboard screams in bold print.
The sound of the Kwani Experience travels far beyond the concrete that spawned it. Their sound is clearly the progeny of a long list of South African innovators, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
A new book, using hitherto untapped sources, reveals the truth behind the myth of Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, writes Michael Yahuda.
Hurricane Katrina pounded storm-wary Florida, killing at least three people, leaving about 1,5-million homes without power and collapsing a Miami highway overpass. Hours after the storm slammed ashore in densely populated southeastern Florida, its eye headed out to the Gulf of Mexico early on Friday, but howling winds and pounding rain still battered Miami.
Trade-union opposition is believed to have thrown a spanner in the works of an ambitious Public Investment Corporation (PIC) plan to transfer the remaining 3,3% of Telkom it was warehousing to 1,5-million government employees, <i>Business Day</i> reported on Friday. The PIC bought 15,1% of Telkom from the overseas Thintana group last year.
World number two platinum-miner Impala Platinum (Implats) on Friday reported a 9,9% increase in basic headline earnings per share for the year to June 2005 of 4 325 cents, from 3 924 cents in the group’s 2004 year. The group declared a final dividend per share of 1 800 cents.