FASION retail group Foschini said on Monday that it has bought sporting apparel retailer Totalsports for R75-million. It said in the statement that the acquisition of Totalsports from Moresport Holdings will strengthen its position in the sporting apparel market. Foschini said that the R75-millon price tag represents net assets of about R56-million with the balance […]
BOTSWANA’S diamond giant, Debswana, increased its revenue to a record $1,96-billion from $1,28-billion in 1998. MD Louis Nchindosaid that gross profits for 1999 rose mainly because of an increase in the amount of carats sold. The company said that the continued strength of the American retail market, some renewed confidence in the south-east Asian markets, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Welkom | Thursday 1.30pm. ITALY’S Max Biaggi is confident of repeating his success in the South African Grand Prix when the race opens the 2000 world motorcycling championship on Sunday. Biaggi led from start to finish in last year’s 500cc race at the Phakisa Freeway circuit and says he is happy to be […]
ELLIS MNYANDU, Cape Town | Thursday 6.45pm. SOUTH Africa added its voice on Thursday to a chorus of criticism of a UN report accusing African states of flouting sanctions against Angola’s Unita rebels. Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Zuma said the independent report was limited by its restriction to one-sided sources, but maintained that South Africa […]
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SOUTH Africa’s double Olympic champion Penny Heyns has withdrawn from the world short-course swimming championships following the death of Canadian breaststroker Tara Sloan, Heyns’s family said on Tuesday. Heyns, who has broken 11 world breaststroke marks in the last year, has remained in Calgary, where she is based, to offer support to Sloan’s family. The […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Jamshedpur | Wednesday 9.20am. INDIA have set South Africa’s batsmen a target of 249 for victory in the vital third one-day international at Faridabad after scoring 248/8 in their alotted 50 overs. The last wicket to fall was that of Ajit Agarkar who was bowled for eight runs by Jacques Kallis with the […]
BOTSWANA’S Health Minister, Joy Phumaphi, said that up to 100000 people are likely to contract malaria after the floods which swept the country in February. Six people are reported to have died, while 1500 people are suffering from the disease. Phumaphi said that 13000 people are showing signs of being infected with malaria. “With the […]
ZIMBABAWEAN President Robert Mugabe has reconfirmed his view that gays and lesbians were “worse than pigs and dogs” and has vowed not to allow the British government “to promote homosexuality” in Zimbabwe. The Star reports that “unlike pigs and dogs, which knew their females and could naturally become intimate with them, gays and lesbians could […]
AYOB Mungalee, former Gauteng People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) co-ordinator, could not appear in a Johannesburg court on charges of conspiracy to commit murder on Tuesday because he was too weak to be transported from Cape Town. Sixteen members and supporters of Pagad on Friday suspended their five-day hunger strike after the SA Prisoners […]