OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 12.20pm. PUBLIC Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe said on Friday that the government will accelerate the restructuring of state-owned assets and hopes to complete deals worth R40-billion by 2004. ”The year 2004 is the year we want to have completed the restructuring agenda in South Africa,” he said. Radebe said the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.00pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange fell to five-month lows on Thursday, led by a selloff in technology stocks following sustained losses on the US tech-rich Nasdaq composite index. By late afternoon the benchmark All Share index was down 3,18% at 7386, a level last reached in mid-November, with losses across […]
THE United Nations Security Council on Thursday extended its UN political mission in Angola for six months following a report by Secretary-General Kofi Annan that stopped short of criticising the Luanda government on social or human rights issues. The small UN office was established after UN peacekeepers were pulled out of the country when it […]
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As Oliver Stone’s dissection of American football is released on circuit, Danny Leigh discovers it’s impossible to separate the film-maker from his films.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Addis Ababa | Thursday 7.00pm. ETHIOPIA will succeed in averting famine threatening some eight million people, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Thursday while rejecting criticism that its war with Eritrea had exacerbated the crisis. Speaking after meeting with the visiting director of the UN World Food Program Catherine Bertini, Meles said: “The […]
THE United States is considering sending more food relief to Ethiopia to help avert a massive famine, but criticised the Addis Ababa government for continuing to spend money on war its with Eritrea while its people suffer. “The causes of the famine are clearly primarily a drought caused by three years without rain… had the […]
A TEENAGER has stolen and flown a two-seater aeroplane just six weeks after he was arrested for stealing another plane. Police said on Wednesday that the boy, 16, convinced a security guard to let him onto the Witbank airfield in Mpumalanga and eventually asked for the keys to the duty room so he could use […]
OWN CORRESPONDEN, Cape Town | Thursday 5.45pm. THE Stormers’ impressive 39-18 win last week over the Blues led to much eating of humble pie in South Africa and abroad, as the team from Cape Town laid down the gauntlet and played some fine rugby to hold their very meagre play-off hopes alive. This week the […]
SOUTH Africa’s men’s hockey side courageously went down 3-2 to Germany in the second match of the men’s four-nations hockey tournament at the Perth Hockey Stadium on Wednesday night. It was Germany’s second success against South Africa inside a week, following their 5-1 win in Sydney last Thursday. Germany took a comfortable half-time lead with […]