SHARES in synthetic fuels firm Sasol maintained a strong rally on Thursday amid rising oil prices and favourable market reaction to solid interim results. The company said on Tuesday that its headline earnings per share in the six months to December 25, 1999, had risen by 34% to 251 cents. The company, which saw its […]
THE Weather Bureau says there’s a good chance Mozambique could be hit by a second cyclone within the next week. Weather Bureau spokesman Bheki Mkhize told ZA*NOW that Cyclone Gloria, currently raging over the northern tip of Madagascar, will probably reach Mozambique by next Wednesday. “We expect Gloria to move over the Mozambique channel by […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.25pm. RAYMOND White, who quit last month as president of the United Cricket Board of South Africa, launched a stinging attack on the country’s cricket administrators, accusing them of causing the sport to “fracture along racial lines.” White, who opted out on February 11 after being accused by a UCB […]
BETSIE Verwoerd, the widow of former apartheid architect Hendrik Verwoerd, has died in Orania at the age of 98. “She died in the presence of family members without sickness and pain,” her family said in a statement sent from her home in the whites-only town of Orania where she had lived for the past eight […]
RETAIL and wholesale group Wooltru said on Thursday it expected flat earnings for the year after reporting a 5% dip in interim results due to poor growth at some of its subsidiaries. “Although certain benefits will accrue in the current year, earnings for the year to June 2000 are unlikely to exceed those in 1999,” […]
CHICKEN fast food chain Nandos has withdrawn its latest television advert after protests by blind people led to a hearing at the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) offices. The advert depicted a guide dog deliberately lead its blind owner into a pole to get at her take-away chicken. The ASA will announce its verdict on Wednesday.
ACCUSED Wemmer Pan serial killer Cedric Maupa Maake was found guilty of a further 15 charges – including murder, attempted murder, rape and robbery – in the Johannesburg High Court on Wedenesday. Judge Geraldine Borchers is still to deliver judgment on nearly 100 other charges. On Tuesday Maake, considered one of the country’s worst serial […]
MORE than 40% of Africans live on less than a dollar a day, according to World Trade Organisation (WTO) figures announced at a conference of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa). A WTO delegation representative told Egypt’s government Al-Akhbar newspaper that poverty is “the most serious problem afflicting the African continent.” The […]
HEALTH commentators on Tuesday widely slammed as “laughable” comments by a health department representative that the ministry may reappraise scientific evidence that HIV causes Aids. They were reacting to a statement by Dr Ian Roberts, a special adviser to Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, that the department is looking into the feasibility of getting a […]
RUSTENBURG police are still searching for a man alleged to have killed his ex wife and two other people on Monday night. Hendrik Slippers, 38, shot and killed Hazel Slippers, 28, and her future in-laws, George and Merle Smith, 46 and 44 respectively. The Smith couple’s daughters, Wendy, 21, and Judy, 18, were both wounded […]