STUART GRAHAM, Johannesburg | Wednesday IT was not likely that individuals and financial organisations would influence the exchange rate of the rand, the commission of inquiry into the rapid depreciation of the currency heard on Wednesday. Retired SA Reserve Bank governor Chris Stals told the commission he did not think any large corporate organisations would […]

A SEVEN-year-old girl and two policemen were injured in a shoot-out in Soweto with a suspected robber on Sunday. Superintendent Richard Luvhengo said the two policemen arrested a robbery suspect in White City in Soweto. The man then took the police to another suspect’s house in the same area. At the house, the second suspect […]

THE JSE overall index gained 0,83% to 10963 by noon Thursday following a stronger Wall Street close. Financial indices were mainly lower and Industrials and Resources up. Absa lost 2,5% to R26,90. FoodS group Tiger Brands gained 2,5% to R62,50. The JSE gold index gained a percent despite the price of bullion dropping to $292,00/oz […]

Johannesburg | Monday THE SA Reserve Bank (SARB) was not able to isolate any transaction which caused or contributed to the rapid fall of the rand in 2001, the commission of inquiry into the depreciation of the currency heard on Monday. The general manager of the SARB’s foreign exchange department, Alexander Bruce-Brand, told the commission […]

Krugersdorp | Monday A ROBBER was mauled to death by tigers when he scaled a fence at the Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve at Kromdraai, near Krugersdorp on the West Rand, while escaping the scene of his crime, police said on Sunday. The man and two others had allegedly held up a cashier at the […]

A planned diabetes treatment trial in the Cook Islands involving the transplant of pig tissue into humans has been strongly condemned by an international medical group. The group accused New Zealand company Diatranz Ltd of trying to avoid safeguards by approaching the Cook Islands government to test the treatment, in which pig pancreatic tissue is […]