THE West Indies were fined 35% of their match fee on Monday for a slow over rate during their first Test victory over Zimbabwe at Port of Spain. Zimbabwean opener Grant Flower was handed a suspended ban of one Test match or two one-day internationals for misconduct. Flower hit the stumps with his bat after […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has congratulated Senegalese opposition leader Abdoulaye Wade on his victory over President Abdou Diouf in the country’s general election. “The South African government is convinced that under Mr Wade’s leadership, Senegal will prosper and the relations between our two countries will grow further,” Mbeki said in a statement. Mbeki also congratulated the […]
MAIZE futures traders expect the 1999/00 maize crop to come in at 9,33-million tons, well above the first official commercial crop estimate of 8,97-million tons in February. “We have had nearly perfect weather conditions for this crop and it is looking very, very good,” said a Johannesburg-based trader. “A lot of people planted very late […]
THE African National Congress called on all South Africans to intensify the struggle against racism in its message for Human Rights Day on Tuesday. Human Rights Day marks the anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre, in which 69 black anti-apartheid demonstrators were murdered by police in 1960. “Forty years after the Sharpeville massacre we mark Human […]
EDUCATION Minister Kader Asmal has won the 2000 Stockholm Water Prize for his “visionary” leadership in water resource management, the prize committee announced on Wednesday. Asmal, a former minister for water affairs and forestry, was awarded the prize “in recognition of his unprecedented efforts in the development of vision, legislation and practice in the field […]
SHARES in BOE Ltd vaulted on Friday on rumours that the banking and financial services group would announce details of a broad-ranging restructure as early as next week. Traders said regular talk that the group could become the target of a takeover was also swirling again. BOE was not immediately available for comment. At midday […]
A CAPE man who made five death threats to President Thabo Mbeki was found guilty in the Cape regional Court on Wednesday. The man, Theo James Keown, 50, pleaded guilty, but did not say why he made the threats. Keown called Tuynhuys on May 26 last year and told a presidential staffer that he wanted […]
THE military regime in the Indian Ocean republic of the Comoro Islands has put down a coup attempt. Former prime minister Abbas Djoussouf and local radio reports said on Wednesday that several members of the armed forces had been arrested, including Abderrahmane Abdallah, the son of Comoran president Ahmed Abdallah who was assassinated in 1989. […]
TWENTY-EIGHT people were burnt to death and 40 seriously injured in Tanzania when an overturned fuel tanker caught fire as villagers were stealing its petrol. Three people who initially survived the blaze died on Tuesday in hospital. Laurian Sanya, the regional police commander of Mbeya, said that one of two tankers travelling to neighbouring Malawi […]
GOLD continued to move higher on Wednesday boosted by short-covering after initial market disappointment following the Bank of England’s fifth gold auction on Tuesday. The metal was last bid at $290,05 an ounce. “We saw better international markets overnight, particularly Wall Street. Bullion is up and we had the release [on Wednesday morning) of Anglo […]