NAWAAL DEANE, Johannesburg | Friday 12.30pm. SOCCER City will set the stage for a thrill-a-minute showdown between arch-rivals Sundowns and Chiefs in the BobSave Super Bowl final on Saturday. The berths for the final were decided following Chiefs’ 3-1 drubbing of Bush Bucks, while Sundowns went through with a 1-0 clincher against AmaZulu. Tradional pre-match […]
MARIANNE MERTEN, Cape Town | Friday 11.45am. SOUTH African cricketers Pieter Strydom and Henry Williams on Friday cast further doubt over Hansie Cronje’s statement that he never approached any other players to affect the outcome of matches for money. Strydom told the King Commssion of inquiry that Cronje approached him before the first Test against […]
A SECOND phone operator will be up and running in May 2002, the Business Day reports. The government announced on Thursday that Telkom’s monopoly is to end in less than two years. The paper says the news has been welcomed by several industry players amid expectation that lower prices and better service will result from […]
THE fate of 11 senior Mpumalanga officials accused of lying about their qualifications will be announced on Friday when the Public Service Commission hands its investigation report on the issue to Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu. The 11 unnamed officials reportedly over-stated or invented their qualifications to secure high-paying government jobs. PSC chairman Stanley Sangweni will personally […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 4.30pm. THE rand moved weaker on Friday, touching a low of R7,06 to the dollar, but retraced some of its losses later in the day. By late afternoon it was trading at R7,01 to the US currency. Traders said weak bonds and continued concerns about the situation in Zimbabwe weighed […]
THE strike in Nigeria over recent fuel price increases entered its second day on on Friday, paralysing business activities, as well as international and domestic flights. “Our offices in Lagos are closed and we are not likely to operate on Saturday the Lagos-Nairobi flight. On Tuesday we did not fly into Lagos as scheduled because […]
M-WEB announced major growth exceeding expectations on Thursday, in both its revenue and subscriber base. Year-end saw the subscriber base nearing the landmark quarter-million figure and revenues increased by 96% to R227,3-million. In addition, unique monthly visitors to M-Web owned portals now exceeds 700000 – nearly three times the subscriber base. In line with expectations, […]
THABO Mngomeni has retained the Bafana Bafana captaincy for the June 18 Cosafa Cup quarter-final match against Switzerland despite the team’s 4-0 thrashing by the United States in the Nike Cup at the weekend. The 20-man squad, which will be without the likes of Shaun Bartlett and Quinton Fortune because of club commitments, contains eight […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Asmara | Friday 9.20am. ERITREA claims that Ethiopia has launched a “large-scale” offensive on its eastern Assab front, following small-scale attacks and intensive shelling throughout Thursday. It comes after Ethiopia claimed earlier that its military objectives have been reached and that its war with Eritrea is over. Asmara said Ethiopia has deployed three […]
ESKOM’s pebble bed nuclear project has formed an international partnership with UK nuclear company British Nuclear Fuels, the Business Day reports. BNF is taking an estimated 20% stake in the scheme for about R100-million. The project is being led by Eskom, which has a 30% stake in it, and the Industrial Development Corporation, which has […]