THE boxing world may again see a return to 15-round fights after WBU President Jon Robinson suggested at the WBU boxing convention held in Cape Town that championship fights should again be decided over 15 rounds. Robinson said that there is no proof that 15 round fights are any more detrimental to boxers than 12 […]
ABOUT 3000 trade unionists are expected to march through the streets of Durban on Wednesday, as part of the World March of Women against poverty and violence. The march is being organised jointly by the International Confederation of Free Trade Union, which is holding its 17th World Congress in Durban, and its South African affiliates, […]
STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Tuesday 6.30pm. ENVIRONMENTAL Affairs and Tourism Minister Valli Moosa on Tuesday defended South Africa’s proposals to amend the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) to enable it sell off stockpiled ivory, saying there is no evidence to suggest it will encourage poaching. “We are not in favour of […]
THE rand, should recover strongly by the end of 2002, which is the horizon for the government’s newly-introduced inflation targets, Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni said on Tuesday. “The inflation target is set for the period between now and the end of the calender year 2002,” he said during radio phone-in show.”So in between that […]
MINISTER of Public Enterprises Jeff Radebe announced on Tuesday that former Eskom deputy CEO Bongani Khumalo has joined the Office of the Presidency. Khumalo will join the Deputy-President’s office and will be in charge of a strategy for rural development and an HIV/Aids awareness programme.
THE gold price fell on Tuesday after Austria’s central bank announced that it has sold 30 tons of gold and is planning further sales. Prices are around their lowest levels since December 1999 when the Dutch central bank announced plans to sell part of its gold reserves and following Bank of England gold auctions. On […]
THE conflict between Chelsea and the Nigerian Football Association seems to have been resolved after the club won its battle to play Celstine Babayaro in Wednesday’s crunch Champions Cup quarterfinal against Barcelona, despite Babayaro having to play for his country in a World Cup qualifier over the weekend. Chelsea had to obtain permission from the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Braamfontein | Tuesday 7.15pm BLACK journalists control the executive editorial decision-making of the majority of mainstream white-owned and controlled newspapers and the news services of both the public and private commercial broadcasters, the South African Human Rights Commission heard on Tuesday. Making a submission into the HRC’s public hearings on racism, which resumed […]
MINISTERS from France and the CFA franc zone began a meeting in the Equatorial Guinea capital Malabo on Tuesday at which they will discuss French efforts to reduce debt in the zone. The meeting was opened by Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema who called on France to help its African partners in the zone. […]
ARMY Commanders on Tuesday started negotiations in Kampala in an attempt to find solutions to the violation of the ceasefire agreement that was launched to restore peace to the war-torn country. The negotiations are being run under the auspices of the Joint Military Commission — an umbrella body formed last year following a Zambian-mediated peace […]