MICHAEL FINCH, Seville | Saturday 11.00am. DESPITE being advised by the team doctor to withdraw from the World Athletics championships, South Africa’s only world number one in athletics, Llewellyn Herbert, was putting on a brave face on Friday. With just three days left before his opening 400m hurdles heat at Seville’s giant Olympic stadium, the […]

SEVEN ministers from the Economic community of West African States plan to hold a meeting in Lome on Thursday to discuss the situation in embattled northwestern Liberia. Togolese officials said the countries taking part will include Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and Togo, whose government currently holds the ECOWAS presidency. The gathering […]

THE Egyptian Wheelchair Basketball team beat the South Africans 48:41 at the second Test in Pretoria on Wednesday night. The South African played a significantly better game than they did at the first test in Orkney on Monday evening and the final Test on Saturday looks set to be a thrilling game.

EASTERN Province captain Chad Alcock led by example in scoring a hattrick of tries in his side’s seventh win of an improving season, beating Northern Free State 32-17. Prop Corne van der Merwe followed his leader best by claiming two of EP’s six tries, ho lead 12-7 at half-time in Welkom. Only fiercesome tackling by […]

THE implementation of key aspects of a free trade deal between South Africa and the European Union is set to start in 2000, the South African parliament heard Wednesday. The draft agreement, which was finally concluded in May after three-and-a-half years of tough negotiations, will be discussed by the South African cabinet before the end […]

ANGLOGOLD chief exectutive Bobby Godsell argued for an open immigration system in South Africa, in order to boost productivity nad compete globally early this week. He said South Africa benefits from foreigners and that he is in favour of illegal and legal immigration. Difficulties in getting work visas for foreign workers has stifled local business, […]

THE Independent Broadcasting Commission has resolved to grant the application for the transfer of control of Orbicom (Pty)Ltd from Multi-choice Africa (Pty Ltd) and MIH Holdings to M-Cell (Ltd) , the authority said on Wednesday. Special advisor to the IBA chairman, Michael Markovitz, also said Jacaranda 92,7 FM was refused permission to install and use […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 7.30pm. FORMER transport minister Mac Maharaj on Monday dismissed the amnesty applications of five former security branch policemen as “concocted” stories and opposed them on the basis of his own insider knowledge. Speaking at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty hearings in Durban on Monday, he questioned the circumstances surrounding […]

MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Friday 5.00pm. NEGATIVE sentiment and thin trade let local markets drift downward on Friday, as the week spun to a slow close. Most indices ended in the red except all gold, and bonds and the rand stayed in their current ranges. IT stocks retreated from gains earlier this week, bringing a […]

PIETER BRUWER, Johannesburg | Monday 9.40am SUNFLOWER seeds and chickens were two of the main reasons the economy expanded at a faster-than-expected rate in the second quarter, according to the latest Gross Domestic Product figures released by Statistics South Africa on Monday. Stats SA said that the economy grew by 1,7% in the second quarter […]