SOUTH Africa’s Competition Commission has raided the premises of Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) and its subsidiary Slagment Ltd as part of an investigation into alleged collusion. The competition watchdog said it had been unable to get information from the parties to facilitate its investigation, and ”as the Commission had reason to believe that key information […]

ZIMBABWE’S Finance Minister, Simba Makoni, says the projected budget deficit for 2000 has been raised to 14.9% of gross domestic product (GDP) from 3.8% due to a higher wage bill and defence spending. Makoni said the budget deficit was expected to soar because of an increase in the public sector wage bill, the government interest […]

The president of Burundi, Pierre Buyoya arrived in South Africa on Thursday for talks with former President Nelson Mandela aimed at resolving problems over a proposed peace plan for Burundi.

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has ordered officials to toughen South Africa’s laws against child pornography, which is apparently flooding into the country via the Internet. Mbeki’s order follows the arrest last week of two media personalities for having a large amount of pornography in their home, allegedly bought over the Internet. Police have confirmed that a […]

SOUTH Africa’s bid to overturn the award of the 2006 Soccer World Cup to Germany has been dismissed by FIFA – but the world body has pledged to embrace the principle of rotating future finals around the continents. FIFA’s executive committee unanimously supported a proposal by president Sepp Blatter that, from 2010, the finals would […]

Peter Robinson cricket A few years ago Fanie de Villiers argued that South Africans don+t quit. In his more recent incarnation as a TV presenter, De Villiers says lots of things and not all of them make immediate sense, but at Sydney in 1994 he was able to explain in a few short words exactly […]