EASTERN Cape police have arrested three men in connection with the rape of two Belgian tourists near Storms River on Tuesday morning. The two women were apparently hitchiking on the N2 near Port Elizabeth when they were offered a lift by three men who raped them. The women walked to a garage in Kareedouw, where […]
THE Mail & Guardian newspaper is considering legal action against the African National Congress in response to the ANC’s submission to the Human Rights Commission on racism in the media. Minister of Public Enterprises, Jeff Radebe, delivering the ANC’s submission on Wednesday, said that M&G editor Phillip van Niekerk himself wrote an article critical of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.00pm RESOURCE stocks left their high tech counterparts behind on Tuesday, after the sector remained shaky after US tech benchmark, Microsoft, took a weighty knock on Monday. The resource index rose a hefty 1,72% to 5090 but off its intraday highs as some investors snatched quick profits. It remains well […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 2.45pm STANDARD Bank Limited (Stanbic), which is fending off a hostile bid from rival Nedcor, has formed a joint venture with African Bank Investments Limited, the companies said on Wednesday. The venture will focus on providing loan, insurance and transaction products to the country’s growing market of black customers, a […]
STEVE Waugh will lead the Australian cricket team on its brief tour of South Africa later this month after being cleared of serious injury during the third and final test against New Zealand. The Australian captain was forced to retire hurt on Monday after being struck on the left wrist while batting against the Kiwis […]
ZIMABAWE’S batsmen will be heaving sighs of relief as Pakistani paceman Shoaib Akhtar has been pulled out of the Pakistani team’s opening triangular one-day match against Zimbabwe on Wednesday. Pakistan’s manager Brigadier Muhammad Nazir said Shaoib is being given more time to recover from a groin injury he suffered in the Sharjah Cup tournament. ”We […]
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DEPUTY President Jacob Zuma is attending the opening of the 17th world congress of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions’ in Durban. The confederation, with its 125 million members, has drawn over a 1000 trade union leaders for the congress titled “Globalising Social Justice in the 21st Century”. The participants will spend the week […]
POLICE in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar and Pemba on Monday briefly detained opposition leader Seif Shariff Hamad. The privately-owned Alasiri tabloid reported that Hamad, secretary general of Zanzibar’s main opposition party, the Civic United Front, was detained shortly after the high court here adjourned the trial of 18 CUF members charged with treason. It […]