Johannesburg | Tuesday SELLING in gold and bank stocks helped South Africa’s bourse extend losses in Tuesday early afternoon trade, as bullion prices retreated and higher-than-anticipated private credit demand figures weighed, traders said. The gold index fell almost three percent, driving the key all-share index down 0,4% or 38,5 points to 11,035.5 points by 1109 […]

Antananarivo | Sunday MADAGASCAR’S outgoing President Didier Ratsiraka on Sunday demanded that a referendum be held to determine the outcome of a violent dispute over the presidency of the Indian Ocean island state. Such a referendum, Ratsiraka told reporters, was envisaged in a reconciliation deal he had signed in Dakar on April 18 with his […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday LAST year only 0,6% of black pupils who registered for the national Senior Certificate examination passed mathematics on the Higher Grade, Deputy Education Minister Mosibudi Mangena said on Tuesday. Speaking at the launch of the Alexander Forbes Risk Services Mathematics and Science Centre at Wynberg in Johannesburg, Mangena said that judging by […]

Durban | Tuesday THE Non-Aligned Movement’s committee on Palestine (CoP) will send a delegation to meet Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to express solidarity for his country’s plight, a declaration released by the committee on Monday night stated. The declaration, which followed a three-hour meeting of the committee on Saturday, also called for decisive action against […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday BANKING group Nedcor announced on Monday afternoon that it had withdrawn from a bid to partner the government and FirstRand bank in running ailing Saambou Bank. A statement said the decision was made after Nedcor announced last week that it had offered to buy BoE Limited for R7,3-billion. ”Nedcor has considered its […]

Durban | Sunday SOUTH AFRICAN Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Saturday that the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) had to voice strong support and solidarity for the people of Palestine amid increasing conflict in the volatile Middle East region. Speaking after the meeting of the Committee on Palestine at the International Convention Centre in […]

Johannesburg | Monday THE exclusively white community of Orania in the Northern Cape is to hand a report on its status as an independent municipality to Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi on Monday, a representative for Orania said. Carel Boshoff said in a statement that the report was the result of a 14-month long study […]

Cape Town | Tuesday A SOUTH African man, believed to be from the Boksburg Hiking Club, died after he and two colleagues were attacked by a swarm of killer bees while hiking in southern Namibia last week. A representative for a lodge in the area, Chris Baas, said a party of ten people, South Africans […]