THE Bank of England sold 20 tons of gold, or 643_200 ounces, at $280,00 a troy ounce on Wednesday. The scheduled sale, which came in a disorientated market after yesterday’s US terror attack, was 4,3 times oversubscribed, with a scaling factor of 61,3818% applied to the successful bids at $280,00, the Bank of England said. […]

Johannesburg | Sunday AIDS has become the biggest single killer of South Africans, the South African Medical Research Council reports in a study made public on Sunday. It calculates that 40% of the deaths last year of those aged between 15 and 49 were due to the pandemic. The council predicts that about six million […]

New York | Monday THE eyes of the global financial world will be trained on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, with investors looking for signs that the US economy will be able to bounce back after this week’s devastating terror attacks. The exchange, located on New York’s legendary Wall Street, is far and […]

New York | Monday A SENIOR Pakistani delegation began talks with the Taliban in their stronghold of Kandahar on Monday in a bid to persuade the Islamic militia to hand over Osama bin Laden, the Afghan Islamic Press reported. Senior military intelligence chiefs and foreign ministry officials met Taliban Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Mutawakel in […]

A 22-year-old policeman was shot and injured for no apparent reason in Vrede on Saturday, eastern Free State police said on Monday. Captain Veronica Ntepe said Constable Thabang Molo was walking around at the Thembalihle sports grounds when he heard a shot being fired. He then realised that he had been hit and was taken […]

AN IMF meeting due to be held later this month in Washington will most likely be cancelled in the wake of Tuesday’s terror attacks, an Italian source said on Friday. The source also said G7 finance ministers would probably meet at the end of the month but had not yet decided where. The IMF and […]

ALTHOUGH the effect of Tuesday’s attacks in the United States was currently unknown there was no doubt it would have economic implications, SA Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni has warned. ”A lot will depend on how events unfold in the coming days and months,” he told the International Jubilee Conference of the Economic Society of […]

THE N3 highway across the Drakensberg mountain range which was closed because of heavy snowfalls in parts of KwaZulu-Natal during the week was reopened on Saturday. Meanwhile, eight hikers who were reported missing in the Cathedral Peak area of the Drakensberg on Friday were found on Saturday around 10am. KwaZulu-Natal provincial disaster management centre spokesman […]

A 30-year-old man shot and seriously wounded his girlfriend before turning the gun on himself in Brown Street in the Pretoria city centre on Sunday afternoon, police said on Monday. The couple were outside the man’s fast food outlet when an argument broke out between them at 2pm, Inspector Anton Breedt said. The man, identified […]

ED STODDARD, Johannesburg | Monday SOUTH African markets are braced for a potentially bruising week after European shares slumped to near three-year lows on Friday in the wake of Tuesday’s terror attacks in the United States. Wall Street’s Monday opening will be the focus of most of the attention after a four-day closure left markets […]