The darling of the stands is back and set to get tongues wagging again Martin Gillingham Bob Skinstad, the glamour boy of South African rugby, has called on the sport’s top brass to drop their ban on overseas-based players representing the Springbok team. “I’m of the opinion that you should be able to play Super […]
Stewart Bailey Tokyo Sexwale is known in Johannesburg’s mining circles as the “rainmaker”; an affectionate nickname alluding to his success in bringing black empowerment in the resource sector into the commercial mainstream. A previously sceptical investment community has applauded the achievements of Sexwale’s Mvelaphanda Mining, the black empowerment business vehicle he created in 1998. Before […]
Specialised Outsourcing is at the heart of a fraud investigation by Umgeni Water Alec Hogg and Bruce Whitfield Reputations, careers and the future of a listed company are on the line as Umgeni Water prepares to release the findings of a controversial report into the awarding of the outsourcing contract of its multibillion-rand treasury. The […]
saturday may 5: BBCWorld, 11:10 and 17:10 Violent Planet:This documentary series takes a look at the destruction caused by natural disasters. The first episode,Deluge, focuses on floods, rain, hail storms and snow. Also watch Inferno(May 12 at 11:10 and 17:10) and Storm(May 19 at 11:10 and 17:10) Channel O, 20:00 Macy Gray Special:Find out more […]
A 71-year-old South African woman was fined for speeding at 171km /hour on her way to church, The Star newspaper reported on Tuesday. The pensioner, Anna Kemp, told provincial traffic police that she was in a great hurry to get to church as she was late. ”When I saw her grey hair I immediately knew […]
LUCIA MUTIKANI, Johannesburg | Friday SOUTH Africa’s new vehicle sales rose 9.9% year-on-year in April but fell almost 30% from the previous month, suggesting the market’s growth was now slowing, manufacturers said on Thursday. Sales rose to 24 506 units in April compared to 22 308 units in the same period last year. On a […]
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ZIMBABWE?S Roman Catholic bishops have lashed out at President Robert Mugabe’s government, and denounced the 15-month campaign of violence led by liberation war veterans loyal to him. The pastoral letter, which will be distributed to every Catholic church, school and institution in Zimbabwe, is the harshest criticism yet of Mugabe’s regime from any of the […]
A YOUNG Egyptian bride who was disenchanted with her new husband simply fled during her honeymoon and married another man at a nearby resort, the government daily al-Akhbar reported on Tuesday. Nefissa Abdel Hamid, a 26-year-old servant, left her 38-year-old truck driver husband 20 days after their wedding, and was married again, without having obtained […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday PROSTITUTES who questioned long distance truck drivers in South Africa and took spit samples found that a third of those surveyed always stopped for sex during journeys, and more than half tested HIV-positive, according to a study made public this week. The country’s Medical Research Council said the questions […]