MINERALS and Energy Minister Phumuzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Friday announced PricewaterhouseCoopers as the consortium to advise government on restructuring the electricity distribution industry. Mlambo-Ngcuka said PricewaterhouseCoopers was selected above 16 other bidders to advise government on developing a comprehensive and integrated implementation strategy for the establishment of regional electricity distributors.
AT least 34 homes, a school and three game lodges have been destroyed by flooding in the Chiawa valley of the lower Zambezi following opening of spill gates at the giant Kariba Dam. Aid workers say maize fields along the river banks in the valley have been destroyed after the waters rose just over 5.1 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bangalore | Tuesday 9.40am SOUTH Africa’s historic Test series win in India earned praise from the government, despite the uneasy peace which exists between cricket administrators and politicians. ”After the successes over the English, this triumph in India is a major morale-booster for our sport,” sports minister Ngconde Balfour said in a fax […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.00pm PACEMAN Allan Donald is not too disappointed he fell short of the magical 300-test wicket mark during South Africa’s successful tour of India. ”I said it wasn’t going to be the end of the world if I didn’t achieve it. I was very happy with my performance and I […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.00pm FAST bowler Allan Donald said on Tuesday that South Africa’s series victory in India was the side’s most important achievement since their re-admittance to international cricket nine years ago. ”We respect every win we’ve achieved so far, but I don’t think they come better than this,” he said after […]
THE Cape Town Regional Court on Tuesday morning turned down an application to withdraw the R500000 bail granted last November to Italian millionaire Vito Palazzolo. The Directorate for Public Prosecutions launched an application to have Palazzolo’s bail annulled on grounds that he has become a ”flight risk”. Palazzolo was last week given seven days by […]
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FOREIGN Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is expected to wrap up her bilateral visit to Burundi on Monday. Amongst others, she met with Burundian President Buyoya, the country’s two vice presidents and cabinet ministers. Burundi has urged the South African government to fully support the peace process and appealed to Dlamini-Zuma to encourage investment in Burundi. 05
ZIMBABWE’S key index shed 5,2% during the week as investor confidence was shaken by the country’s economic crisis, especially a critical three-month-old fuel shortage which threatens to bring industry to a halt. Brokers say that the fuel crisis, coupled with a spate of white-owned farm invasions by liberation war veterans over the last three weeks […]
THE United States Information Service has offered to help Swazi journalists set up an independent media body. The offer follows protests against a proposed Media Council Bill, seeking to force all journalists to be licenced by the Ministry of Broadcasting and Information Services. Swazi journalists are planning a meeting to discuss how best to use […]