THE violent struggle in Zimbabwe to seize white-owned farm land will have a ”strong effect” on investments, the chief executive of DaimlerChrysler, Juergen Schrempp, warned on Thursday in Berlin. Referring specifically to Zimbabwe while opening a conference on private investments for Southern Africa, Schrempp said: ”The conditions for investments in any country are political and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday 4.00pm. ZIMBABWE’S worsening political turmoil is having an alarming impact on business confidence in South Africa, the South African Chamber of Business (Sacob) said on Monday. “All indications are that business confidence in South Africa is dropping at an alarming rate,” Sacob head Kevin Wakeford said. He was speaking from […]
OVER 1300 Volkswagen workers dismissed from the Uitenhage plant in February have applied for arbitration after failed attempts at conciliation earlier this month. The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration on Tuesday said that the arbitration process will take place from May 15 to May 19 at the CCMA’s offices in Port Elizabeth. The dismissed […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki, who is leading a regional diplomatic effort to resolve Zimbabwe’s political turmoil, will visit the country to open a trade fair on Friday. Mbeki has avoided taking a strong public stand against the occupation of hundreds of Zimbabwe’s commercial, white-owned farms by self-styled veterans of the country’s independence war. Last week he […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 4.30pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange ended slightly stronger on Friday, in thin trade, largely due to the spate of public holidays over the past week. The rand also recovered some of Thursday’s losses when it plunged to R6,86, and by late afternoon was trading at R6,82 to the dollar. The […]
THE International Cricket Council will invite players and officials to Lords to hand over any information they have on match-fixing and corruption in the game – with the promise of an amnesty for anyone coming forward. The emergency meeting on Tuesday follows an appeal by Lord MacLaurin, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Pretoria | Monday 11.00am. SOUTH Africa will have only themselves to blame if they fail to reach the 2002 World Cup finals in Japan and South Korea by finishing ahead of Burkina Faso, Guinea, Malawi and Zimbabwe in Group E. Bafana Bafana should win their four home matches and have nothing to fear […]
SOUTH Africa’s cricketers face life bans from the game for consorting with bookmakers under the terms of new player contracts. “The South African players’ new contracts contain three pages devoted entirely to all forms of dealing with bookmakers,” the Sunday Times reported. “These include a ban on betting, inducing other players to become involved, contriving […]
ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Monday 12.00pm THE ninth round of the Super 12 revealed the gulf between winners and losers. In Christchurch the Bulls let in 11 tries against the Crusaders and appeared simply to throw in the towel. In Bloemfontein the Cats fought all the way and kept their line intact through the final […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Pretoria | Monday 3.20pm AMAZULU conceded a soft, first-half goal at Free State Stars on Sunday that settled a crucial Castle Premiership match and could condemn the Durban club to First Division football next season. When Stars were awarded a free kick outside the penalty area there appeared to be no immediate threat, […]