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 […]
BAFANA Bafana are still the best soccer team in Africa, according to the monthly Fifa rankings. Morocco are are in second spot, with Tunisia in third. Egypt, Cameroon, Zambia, Angola, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Nigeria make up the rest of the top-ten. Somalia, who still compete despite a long-running war, are rated the least powerful […]
The ANC has angered the Zimbabwean opposition by backing Zanu-PF Jaspreet Kindra Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has slammed the African National Congress’s endorsement of the ruling Zanu-PF, accusing South Africa’s ruling party of aligning itself “with despots”. The MDC has also accused the ANC of misrepresenting what transpired at […]
John Travolta’s vanity project Battlefield Earth has taken 10 years to make and is set to be the turkey of the year Mark Morris There’s nothing like a real Hollywood flop. Not an average bad movie doing averagely badly, but a complete wreck of a film that makes you wonder what the hell anyone was […]
Guy Willoughby REVIEW OFTHEWEEK Andr Stander: policeman, bankrobber, escape artist, master of disguise, mere mortal, potent myth. The man who 20 years ago kept South Africans enthralled with his larger-than-life criminal exploits was all of these – and thus a more than fitting subject for maverick playwright Charles Fourie, whose one-man, multimedia exploration Stander opened […]
tourism Barry Streek Discussions are being held about the establishment of the Wild Coast National Park in Pondoland and the creation of the Maluti Drakensberg Transfrontier Park, which will include the Golden Gate and QwaQwa National Parks, says Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa. He also says the decision to place 12 […]