GHANA’S national flag-carrier Ghana Airways, facing mounting debts and an inability to break even, is on the brink of collapse, the company’s acting chief executive has said. Ghana Airways, which employs 1 400 people, is saddled with $150-million worth of debt, Kofi Kwakwa told the state-owned Daily Graphic in an interview published on Monday. He […]

TONGAAT-Hullett’s Sugar Personnel Services offices outside Tongaat north of Durban have been gutted by a fire, SABC radio reported on Tuesday. The fire broke out just after 5pm on Monday afternoon. It was brought under control, but debris was still falling from the ceiling on Tuesday morning. Parts of the building was also still smouldering. […]

Johannesburg | Thursday Anglogold headline earnings were up by 16% to $88-million (R924-million) for the quarter ended 31 December, the company announced on Thursday. Addressing reporters in Johannesburg, company chairman and chief executive Bobby Godsell said although gold production was down four percent to 1,7-million ounces for the quarter, well contained costs and a higher […]

ONE Nigerian worker was killed and 14 were missing after a half-built office block collapsed in the capital Abuja on Wednesday, state-run television said. The body of the dead man was pulled from the building while work continued to rescue the others still under the rubble, the NTA television station said. The cause of the […]

Ottawa | Thursday A JOHANNESBURG family plagued by a rare medical condition that makes three of its four members allergic to sunshine had its latest bid to stay in Canada turned down, immigration officials said this week. John and Maggie Viviers came to Canada as tourists with their two children — Dominic, now 15, and […]

East London | Thursday RETIRED former Ciskei Defence Force (CDF) commander, Major-General Marius Oelschig, on Wednesday concluded his evidence in the Bisho High Court on the events that led to September 1992 killing of 30 ANC supporters in Ciskei. Oelschig, who denied giving any authorisation for the shooting, maintained that he only issued unqualified instructions […]

PRINCE Andrew the Duke of York will visit South Africa for four days next week to promote trade relations between Britain and South Africa, the British consulate-general said on Thursday. Consulate representative Sue Charlton said that the Duke along with Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Lindiwe Hendricks would re-launch the consulate-general in Johannesburg as British […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday appointed attorney Christine Qunta as a member of the Myburgh Commission after a commissioner stepped down due to other commitments, the Presidency said. Presidential representative Tasneem Carrim said Qunta was a prominent Cape Town attorney who was also well-known for her writing and poetry. ”(She would) replace Advocate Kgomotso Moroka […]

ERIKA DE BEER, Pretoria | Thursday A FORMER member of the Pietersburg Noordelikes rugby club told the Pretoria High Court on Thursday how one of his ex-team mates, accused of murdering Northern Province teenager Tshepo Matloha, had said he would ”shoot the kaffirs”. Louis Strydom was testifying in the trial of Riaan Botha and four […]

Cape Town | Thursday POLICE on Thursday confirmed that semen had been found in the flat of murdered former first lady Marike de Klerk. Police representative Superintendent Wicus Holtzhausen said the results of DNA tests on the semen were not yet available. Holtzhausen denounced as ”absolute nonsense” a report on the e-tv program 3rd Degree […]