The world’s sugar farmers have to limit their sugar output and find other uses for sugar cane and beet to stabilise world sugar prices, delegates at an international growers’ conference in Durban decided. The World Association of Beet and Cane Growers (WABCG) discussed how adverse weather, disease and over-production was hurting farmers, and threats from […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT AND REUTERS, Johannesburg | Saturday THEBE Petroleum Corp (Tepco) has become the first black-owned South African petroleum company to enter the country’s aviation fuel market after striking a two-month, R62m deal with South African Airways Cargo (SAA). The deal will see Tepco supply 10m litres of aviation fuel to SAA at Cape Town […]

CHARLES MANGWIRO, Maputo, | Saturday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki will join his Mozambican counterpart Joaquim Chissano to officially inaugurate the US$1,3bn MOZAL aluminium smelter in Maputo on September 21. MOZAL, the biggest single direct investment in Mozambique since multi-party democracy in 1994, is also the anchor for the ambitious US$3,5bn Maputo development corridor initiative […]

The president of Malawi Bakili Muluzi has ordered all his cabinet ministers to disclose details of private companies they own or control as investigations into corruption in government gained momentum. Muluzi, currently on a private visit to Germany, said in a statement signed by Attorney General and Justice Minister Peter Fachi that public officers, including […]

EVIDENCE WA KA NGOBENI, Johannesburg | Friday THE Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, South Africa’s largest hospital, appears to have covered up a deadly power failure that crippled the overcrowded institution this month depriving it of life-support systems for several hours. At least three patients are believed to have died as a direct result of the […]

The Pretoria High Court has reserved judgment until Monday on Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri’s application to appeal to the Constitutional Court against an interdict preventing her from awarding South Africa’s third cellular phone licence. The Minister wants the Constitutional Court to decide whether the High Court has the power to prevent her awarding the licence […]

South Africa’s stock market is set to surge within the next six months after months of negative sentiment weighing on equity markets, Investec, one of the country’s biggest fund managers, predicted. Jeremy Gardiner, head of Investec Asset Management’s Unit Trust business, said despite strong fundamentals, like a cheap market and positive earnings growth outlook, the […]

Paul Edmunds preview OFTHEWEEK Purple is the colour of majesty, madness and celebration. Purple is also the colour of the dye used by the South African Police when they hosed down peaceful anti- apartheid demonstrators in what came to be called Cape Town’s Purple Rain incident of 1987. To conceive of an arts festival that […]

He gave up school at age 15 to concentrate on racing – and now he’s a motocross world champion at 17 Gavin Foster In 1998, his first year of 125cc motocross Grand Prix racing, Durbanite Grant Langston, then just 15, finished 35th in the world championships. Last year the youngster took a very impressive 10th. […]

The Victorian English public school – rather than the ancient Greeks – inspired Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics Mark Whitaker Taking a short cut recently in the centre of Tunis, a city I’ve known well for years, I found myself in an unfamiliar run-down street. It took some time to find a […]