SOUTH African stocks started trade slightly firmer on Wednesday thanks to gains in Anglo American and Richemont, but weakness in synthetic fuel producer Sasol capped the gains. At 0730 GMT, the benchmark all-share index was 0,39% or 30,5 points higher at 7,804.8, taking its lead from the US markets which ended higher for a second […]

COMEDIAN Mark Banks’ aggression towards a policeman offering to drive him home led to an arrest for drunken driving, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court heard on Wednesday. Banks pleaded not guilty to the main charge of drunken driving as well as not guilty to an alternative charge of driving with a blood-alcohol count of 0,13%. […]

Pretoria | Thursday THE government on Wednesday said it was not deliberately delaying the release of the Medical Research Council’s (MRC) report on Aids mortality in South Africa. ”The MRC report is not a government report and therefore the unfounded allegations in the media implying deliberate attempts on the part of government to delay the […]

Washington | Thursday A coalition of consumer groups Wednesday charged that the new Microsoft Windows XP operating system would ”extend and deepen” the firm’s monopoly power and urged antitrust officials to focus on the software in the pending federal court case. ”Windows XP advances the company’s illegal anti-competitive practices and harms the nation’s consumers,” said […]

Kano | Thursday ELEVEN boys aged 3 to 11 died and 21 were injured on Wednesday when the wall of a mud-built Quranic school in the ancient northern Nigerian city of Kano collapsed, authorities said. The wall was apparently weakened after heavy overnight rain and fell into an open yard being used by the pupils […]

Cape Town | Wednesday GLOBAL warming will cause summer rainfall in some areas of South Africa to decrease by up to 25% over the next 50 to 100 years and kill off dozens of species of plants, a report published on Tuesday warned. The report, entitled “The heat is on” and funded by the World […]

SOUTH African Nick Rowe has been discovered dead amongst the rubble of the World Trade Centre, according to a statement released on Thursday by the Department of Foreign Affairs. Rowe did not work in the World Trade Centre, but at the time of the attack was making a presentation to employees of Canter Fitzgerald in […]

A HOLLYWOOD firm plans to take 200 Ethiopian farmers from a remote province to Namibia for parts in “Beyond Borders”, a big budget movie starring Angelina Jolie and Kevin Costner, a news magazine said on Monday. Production company Lions Gate International also sent representatives to Ethiopia last week to screen-test 12 indigenous artists to play […]