A FREE State farmer has been charged with the attempted murder of his domestic worker. Jacobus van Zyl, 22, of Uitsig farm near Bethlehem, allegedly attacked Malau Emily Malinga, 45, last Thursday. According to the police report he punched her in the face, kicked her and tried to drown her in a cattle drinking trough. […]
SHARES in life insurer Fedsure took a tumble on Wednesday, extending a slide started on Monday when the insurer released financial results that fell short of market expectations. Fedsure posted a 20% increase in diluted earnings per share of 367,3 cents, below analysts’ forecasts of a consensus 398 cents as polled by independent agency Barra. […]
FINNISH mining and metals group Outokumpu said on Friday it would work with South African Gold Fields Limited in northern Finland to explore for and develop platinum group metals. It said Gold Fields had committed $1.5-million in exploration funding until the year’s end, with the option to take a 30% stake in the partnership by […]
JAPANESE riders Shinya Nakano (Yamaha) and Honda-mounted Dajiro Katoh and Tohru Ukawa totally dominated Sunday 250cc South African Grand Prix in Welkom to finish first, second and third respectively. Nakano easily led from start to finish, but his compatriots fought a race-long battle, before Katoh fought back to finish 0.8 seconds behind Nakano.
NINE African heads of state are expected to arrive in Namibia to attend the country’s 10th independence celebrations. Three former presidents are also expected to witness President Sam Nujoma being sworn in for a third successive term during celebrations at Windhoek’s Independence Stadium on Tuesday. The independence anniversary celebrations have drawn the largest gathering of […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki is expected to hold talks with his counterpart from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Laurent Kabila, in South Africa this week. No date has been set for the meeting, Foreign Affairs spokesman Dumisani Rasheleng said at the weekend, speaking to journalists as three South African cabinet ministers returned from a brief fence-mending […]
THE Namibian rugby team playing in the Vodacom Cup is no longer to be known as the Kudus, but now be called the Windhoek Lager Welwidschias. A Welwidschias is a native plant of Namibia. The reason for the name change was that there is a club team in Namibia already using the name Kudus.
TUNISIAN giants Esperance struck seven goals past Patriotic Army of Rwanda without reply in the first round of the African Champions League this weekend. The 1999 runners-up took just six minutes to break the deadlock in Tunis through national team midfielder Maher Kanzari and Taoufik Hammami added a second 60 seconds later. Adailton dos Santos […]
GRANT SHIMMIN, Pietersburg | Saturday 5.00pm. MICHAEL Johnson launched his Olympic campaign devastatingly on Saturday by clocking the fourth fastest 200 metres in history — 19.71 seconds — in his first race of the year. With an ideal following wind of 1.8 metres per second, the Texan raced away from a field that included South […]
AUSTRALIAN Garry McCoy withstood a furious final onslaught from Carlos Checa of Spain to register his first 500cc world championship success by winning the South African Grand Prix on Sunday. The Yamaha rider started the season-opener only ninth on the grid but snatched the lead from Checa with five of the 28 laps to go. […]