BANKING group Saambou has announced a 52,7% jump in headline earnings to R146,6-million for the year ended March 31, compared with R96-million the year before. Headline earnings per share were up 51% to 105c from 69,5c.
MICHAEL VLISMAS, East London | Monday 12.25pm. RYAN Reid claimed his maiden professional victory when he edged out Ulrich van den Berg by one stroke for the Vodacom Series: Eastern Cape title at the East London Golf Club on Sunday. The two players were locked together at 11-under par playing the last after a fiercely […]
AT least 10 people were killed and dozens seriously injured in renewed fighting between residents of two southwestern Nigerian towns. Violence broke out on Saturday between the neighboring towns Ife and Modakeke just as leaders of the two communities were holding peace talks with President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abuja. The border dispute between the two […]
DISCARDED Springbok wing Stefan Terblanche scored two of the Barbarians five tries as they shaded victory against Ireland by 31-30 with some champagne rugby. It was a bruising encounter to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Irish Rugby Football Union at Lansdowne Road in Dublin on Sunday. But injuries in the game could cost Ireland […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Monday 11.55am SIMON Ramoni retained his IBO junior featherweight world title on Friday night in London, scoring an eighth round stoppage over Patrick Mullings, the fighter he took the title from in 1998. It was an all-action fight with both fighters being dropped early on. At the time of the stoppage, […]
THE leader of Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) indicated Sunday that he would move to expel former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam if the MDC wins parliamentary elections due next month. “There is no room here in Zimbabwe for Mengistu,” Morgan Tsvangirai said. Colonel Mengistu, ousted nine years ago, has been living in an […]
Nando’s has reported a 21,26% rise in headline earnings per share to 8,1 cents for the year ended February 29 from 6,68 cents the year before, reports said. Revenues have increased by 13,46% to R321,5 million from R283,3 million the year before. Operating profit before interest and depreciation increased by 46,65% to R41,3-million from R28,2-million […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.30pm. MOST counters ended firmly in positive territory on Monday, the overall finishing 1,01% or 73 points up. With markets in the United Kingdom and United States closed, dealers said futures buying helped the local bourse fair better. The financial index closed 2% or 180 points good, while the industrial […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 11.30am. A GOLDEN Arrow bus driver was shot dead and six commuters were wounded on Monday in Delf, one of Cape Town’s townships. The police’s Superintendent Wicus Holzhausen said the bus driver died after gunmen, believed to be from a minibus taxi organisation locked in a turf war with […]
THE trial starts on Monday of three suspects accused of abducting, raping and finally murdering a Brenda Fairhead and her 11-year-old daughter, Kia, near Port Alfred. The Cape Town women disappeared in January this year after an angling outing at the Fish River mouth. Three weeks have been set aside for the High Court trial, […]