LIBYAN leader Moammar Gadaffi held talks Wednesday in Tripoli with the president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Issa Hayatou. After the talks, Hayatou said that Libya will soon be able to host CAF games after the lifting of the international embargo against it over the Lockerbie Affair. He arrived Sunday evening in Tripoli […]
GOLD Fields, born from a merger of Gold Fields Ltd and Driefontein, made a dull debut in Johannesburg on Monday as investors held shy of bullion shares after the metal’s latest tumble. Shares in the new Gold Fields, the world’s second largest gold producer, opened at a below-expectation R24,25, feeling the weight of Friday’s news […]
NTSIKI Biko, the widow of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, is in a stable condition at the St Dominic’s Hospital in East London after she was injured in a head-on collision on the N2 between Umtata and Idutywa in the Eastern Cape late on Saturday afternoon. A minibus taxi she was travelling in collided with another […]
FORMER Springbok Sevens No 8 Dion O’Cuinneagain will captain Ireland on a four-month tour of Australia late in May. The South African beat out former captains Paddy John and Keith Wood. O’Cuinneagain’s leadership skills make him a contender for Irish World Cup captaincy. He was born in South Africa, but qualifies fo rthe Irish team […]
INJURY-plagued Graham Thorpe and Neil Fairbrother gave World Cup hosts a boost here on Friday as both came through unscathed in a tournament warm-up game against county side Kent. Thorpe, who missed the end of the recent Ashes series with back trouble, scored 55 before chipping out to short mid-wicket. Fairbrother – whose career has […]
A GOVERNMENT probe into Home Affairs director general Albert Mokoena is recommending that he faces at least six criminal charges for alleged misconduct and misusing state property. The Sunday Times reports that a report by public service and administration deputy director-general Mpumi Sikhosana, containing the recommendations, is to be handed to Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu […]
JAPAN’S Nissan Motor Co Ltd will make vehicles for France’s Renault SA at its plants in South Africa and Thailand as part of production sharing following their capital tie-up. Nissan will start making Renault cars in SA as early as 2000, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said. Until now Renault has reached African markets mainly via […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela’s legal counsel on Monday said the High Court judgment which overturned the appointment of the Browde commission of inquiry into the affairs of the SA Rugby Football Union was ”riddled with bias”. Advocate Wim Trengove told the Constitutional Court there was a ”pattern of frequently wrong rulings” in the judgment made by […]
DIMENSION DATA, South Africa’s largest communication systems integration company, completed an excellent six months to end March 1999, with turnover increasing 54% to a record R2,7 billion. Headline earnings rose 90% to R176,9-million and headline earnings per share increasing 61% to 27,1 cents. The group ended the six months with a 178% increase in its […]
NIGERIA’S military ruler General Abdulsalami Abubakar has put a stop to 660 million dollars’ worth of last minute spending plans by his outgoing administration, a report said Saturday. Abubakar, who steps down at the end of this month, ordered the freeze on new capital project spending at a meeting of the military-led government in Abuja […]