AFRICAN National Congress parliamentarian Peter Mokaba has been fighting a serious but as yet unnamed illness since October last year. The sickness has kept Mokaba, a member of the mineral and energy affairs portfolio committee, out of parliament for more than five months. Portfolio committee registers indicate he last attended a sitting on October 20 […]
THE railway link between South Africa and Zimbabwe is to be reopened this week after flood-damage forced its closure five weeks ago, Spoornet said on Monday. Spokesman Mike Asefovitz a railway bridge and 14km of track washed away in the February floods has been replaced, and trains would resume running on Thursday. The line was […]
A PETROL tanker overturned and caught alight on the N3 highway near the Gillooly’s interchange in Johannesburg early on Friday morning, injuring the driver. Germiston traffic officials said the accident happened at about 5am. The highway has been closed for mopping-up operations and should be re-opened at about 2pm. The driver, who broke a leg […]
TWO children aged nine and seven died when a grenade was deliberately flung at them in a weekend attack on a village near Namibia’s unstable frontier with Angola. Six villagers at Thikanduko on the border were killed and six others injured when bandits raided the village on Saturday. The children and two adults were ordered […]
US leaders have reached a tentative agreement to extend new trade privileges to Africa, the Caribbean and Central America. Final passage of the legislation after years of negotiations will give a much-needed boost to President Bill Clinton’s free-trade agenda, set back by the collapse in December 1999 of World Trade Organisation talks in Seattle. Under […]
A JUDICIAL inquiry into South African cricket will only get going once an appropriate judge, who will head the inquiry, is identified — and depending on his or her availability. It was anticipated that the inquiry would get going on Monday. But Graham Abrahams, the spokesman for Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour told ZA*NOW on Monday […]
ALAN FINLAY, Johannesburg | Monday 8.00am. A JUDICIAL inquiry into South African cricket will only get going once an appropriate judge, who will head the inquiry, is identified — and depending on his or her availability. It was anticipated that the inquiry would get going on Monday. But Graham Abrahams, the spokesman for Sports Minister […]
BANKING group Nedcor is still keen to buy FBC Fidelity Holdings and could use the troubled domestic lender as a vehicle to separately list its mass-market People’s Bank, analysts said. Speculation has mounted in the South African media in recent weeks that the sale of FBC, placed in receivership last October following a run on […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Durban | Sunday 7.00pm. Lucky Kaizer Chiefs snatched a 1-0 Bob Save Super Bowl victory over Manning Rangers at Chatsworth Stadium on Sunday thanks to a moment of stealth from Siyabonga Nomvete. There appeared to be no immediate danger when Chiefs Namibian wingback Robert Nauseb held off a clumsy challenge from a Rangers […]
ALAN FINLAY, Johannesburg | Monday 10.00am. THE JSE followed Asian markets down and by mid-morning was trading nearly 6% lower following Friday’s carnage on Wall Street. Economists warned that it could slump as low as 10% on the opening of US markets later in the day. “The bottom will fall out. There’s not much to […]