OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.25pm. LANCE Klusener, South Africa’s star all-rounder, has been handed a four match ban, suspended for three months, after he was involved in verbal confrontation with Zimbabwean Guy Whittall. Klusener and Whittall had words after the latter’s dismissal in a triangular series match at St George’s Park on Sunday. International […]

THE national lottery, which kicks off in the first week of next month, will deliver an estimated R24-billion in prizes over the seven-year period of the initial contract, the Business Day reports. Lotteries board chairman Joe Foster told Parliament on Wednesday that the lottery will potentially have a R50-billion turnover in the first seven years. […]

NIGERIA’S government has raised new conditions for releasing funds needed to restart the troubled Alscon aluminium smelter, company officials said on Thursday. Alscon officials said the government has tied the release of $150 million for running the plant to an assurance from foreign minority shareholders that they will complete the 193000 ton per year project […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 11.40am. THE government will take what steps it can to improve the domestic economy, including facilitating lower interest rates, cutting taxes and improving savings, Trade Minister Alec Erwin said on Wednesday. ”We will continue the complex process of managing the interest rate down so as to increase investment, particularly […]

MEMBERSHIP of political parties has decreased significantly since 1994 according to a survey by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in Pretoria. The slip is even more evident among African respondents where active membership of political parties decreased from its high of 24% in 1994, to 10% in 1999. In the same period active membership […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT | Wednesday 7.00pm HEAVY rains which wracked Mpumalanga, the Northern Province and Gauteng over the past few days, killing at least 27 people and leaving scores missing and hundreds of thousands homeless had abated by late Wednesday. However the Weather Bureau has warned that more rain could fall before the weekend. In Mpumalanga, […]

NEWS and information company Reuters Group nnounced a 500-million plan on Tuesday to move its core business to the Internet, a board shake-up and a 9% rise in 1999 pre-tax profit to 632-million. The company also unveiled plans for a new consumer finance portal and a joint venture portal aimed at European private investors. Criticised […]

TWO Bronkhorstspruit heist suspects who escaped from the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday afternoon are still on the run. The two escaped through an unlocked door after taking guards by surprise. A third suspect is is a stable condition after being shot and wounded during his attempted escape. Apparently three policemen took five of the […]

THE UN Security Council agreed on Monday to double the size of its force in Sierra Leone to 11100 troops. It also expanded the force’s mandate to include such tasks as providing security at government buildings and airports, facilitating the free flow of people, goods and humanitarian aid, and helping guard and destroy weapons due […]