OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 7.00pm SHARES end lower for the third day in a row, with the all share index at a three-month low as futures players jostle for positions ahead of the the March contracts close-out next Thursday. The all share index ended 19 points or 0,25% at 7925, its lowest closing level […]
ZIMBABWE’S foreign exchange market remains critically short of hard cash on Thursday, with traders only looking to tobacco earnings from April to bring some relief. Traders quoted the Zimbabwe dollar unchanged at Z$37,9 to the US unit, its trading level since June under 15-month old partial controls by banking chiefs which averted a return to […]
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‘To me the core of film-making is to stir the emotions of the audience,’ says Frank Darabont, director of tear-jerking prison movie The Green Mile. Stuart Jeffries tries not to laugh.
SEVENTEEN people have been killed by a viral Marburg-type haemorrhagic fever among 38 cases registered in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo. The outbreak occurred in the Durba region of Orientale province, according to state radio. A Marburg fever epidemic claimed 70 lives in the same region between January and May 1999. Marburg fever, […]
A PLACE remains open for the South Africa men’s hockey team at this year’s Sydney Olympics even though the squad has been withdrawn by its own national Olympic association. In a statement from its Brussels headquarters on Tuesday the International Hockey Federation said talks are still being held between the South Africa Hockey Association and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kochi | Thursday 9.00am SOUTH Africa have posted a total of 301/3 in their alotted 50 overs against India at Kochi, leaving the home-side a tough, but not unreachable target. The top-scorers for South Africa were openers Gary Kirsten and Herschelle Gibbs who scored 115 and 111 respectively. The two openers were sent […]
SOUTH Africa closed the gap on Australia at the top of the Wisden World Championship with their 2-0 series victory in India. India dropped to seventh in the table, with only England and Zimbabwe below them. If Australia lose their forthcoming series in New Zealand — the last was drawn — their record will be […]
OWN CORESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 10.30am. GAUTENG Deputy Judge President HCJ Flemming became the sixth Johannesburg judge or close family member to be hijacked in the past three years when he was robbed of his white Audi as he left his Victory Park home. The judge, who each day sits on appeal benches hearing the […]
TRANSNET said on Wednesday it plans to sell its passenger bus services business, Autopax, in a bid to step up its restructuring programme. The loss-making parastatal, whose restructuring has been hobbled by massive debts, set no deadline for the disposal. “The government of the Republic of South Africa, represented by Transnet announces its intention to […]