AFRICAN Wanderers found themselves on the receiving end of a 4-1 drubbing as Bush Bucks found some relief from a dogged battle with relegation at the Independence Stadium in Umtata on Wednesday. Bucks were in no mood to fool about and attacked from the word go — scoring their first goal through Wilfred Mugeyi in […]
THE Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that German billionaire Jurgen Harksen is liable for extradition and that a section of the Extradition Act contested by Harksen’s attorneys is constitutional. The judgment was a unanimous decision by all of the Constitutional Court judges. Harksen is wanted on several fraud and tax evasion. Extradition proceedings will now […]
DEPUTY Agriculture Minister Dirk du Toit is to lead a delegation to Britain on Saturday to inspect farms and abattoirs as a final step towards lifting a South Africa ban on British beef. The ban, imposed in 1998, was in response to an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or “mad cow” disease, among Britain’s beef […]
PETER DICKSON, East London | Friday 12.10pm REPRESENTATIVES of the 1300 Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) workers who were sacked in January are lobbying for international support, while troops this week patrolled the streets of Uitenhage to keep the peace in the wake of the strike. The employees from VWSA’s Uitenhage plant were axed after they […]
IVOR POWELL, Johannesburg | Friday 11.00am. THE controversial third cellular licensing process was thrown into jeopardy this week as embattled councillors from the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority failed to reach a consensus to rubber-stamp its earlier decision to recommend the Cell C consortium. In this week’s meetings, two of the five councillors who earlier […]
THE search for bodies of four rafters still missing since flash floods hit the Storms River last weekend will be called off on Saturday morning. On Friday morning the body of one of the missing was found by a member of the public at the Storms River mouth — bringing to nine the bodies recovered. […]
THE inquest into the death of Cape Town druglord and Hard Livings gang leader Rashaad Staggie has ended. According to Advocate Willie Viljoen of the Investigative Directorate Against Organised Crime the recent arrest of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs co-ordinator Abdus Salaam Ebrahim for the murder of Staggie in effectively put a stop to the […]
STANDARD Bank said on Thursday the appeals court will hand down its judgment on Friday in a ruling crucial to the bank’s battle to thwart a hostile takeover from smaller rival Nedcor. Stanbic wants the appeals court to overturn an earlier decision which made the Reserve Bank and finance ministry the final authorities on whether […]
Thousands of taxi commuters were stranded on the East Rand on Friday, following a seven days suspension of the Faraday Taxi Association’s licence by the government. The suspension is due to complaints received by Gauteng transport MEC Khabisi Mosonkutu of tension amongst taxi operators and the ill-treatment of communters. Buses are reported to be fuller […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 9.00pm TELKOM announced a change in its tariff structure on Thursday that will see the costs of calls to 24 international destinations dropped. Telkom spokeswoman Amanda Singleton said the cost cuts when into effect on Thursday. Singleton said Telkom has targeted the top 30 destinations for outgoing calls from South […]