OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 8.00am. RECENTLY privatised local airline Sun Air will cease operations at close of business on Friday, after the parastatal South African Airways took a majority stake in the struggling airline. The company will be placed in liquidation immediately. The unexpected move follows approval given on Wednesday by the Competition Board […]
MEMBERS of the Communication Workers’ Union are set to strike on Monday after the union failed to reach agreement on wage increases in talks with Telkom last week. CWU said its members will stage a national strike on Monday and will stay away from work on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday, workers will […]
EMMANUEL GOUJON, Kigali | Sunday 5.00pm UGANDAN troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo twice attacked Rwandan forces late on Saturday at an airport near Kisangani, in the northeast of the DRC, a Rwandan government official and other sources said on Sunday. Uganda and Rwanda, formerly allied in the fight against DRC President Laurent Kabila, […]
THE total mining production after seasonal adjustment for the three months to June decreased by 0,2% compared with the previous three months, Statistics South Africa reported on Thursday. The seasonally adjusted value of mineral sales for the three months to April decreased by 2,5% or R468,8-million compared with the previous three months. Stats SA attributed […]
FORMER president Nelson Mandela received a gift of a brand new Mercedes-Benz S500 on Wednesday. The swanky new limo was given to Madiba by DaimlerChrysler South Africa as a token of appreciation for his services to the country. The hand-over of the R628000 car took place before a large crowd in Carletonville, south-west of Johannesburg. […]
FIVE thousand scientists from a hundred countries have voted Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens among the top seven botanical gardens in the world, SABC radio news reported on Friday. Brian Huntley of the National Botanical Institute said recent improvements in research, education and visitor facilities had helped to position Kirstenbosch as a world leader.
MICHAEL VLISMAS, Phalaborwa | Saturday 12.00pm. JUSTIN Hobday survived a lion warning on his way to a second-round seven-under par 65 and a two-shot lead in the Vodacom Series: Mpumalanga at the Hans Merensky Golf Club course on Friday. Hobday reached the turn in four-under before being told by the club that there were reportedly […]
FORMER Miss South Africa Kerishnie Naicker was fined R10000 or three years in jail for speeding on Friday. The case in the Estcourt Magistrate’s Court follows an incident in March when Naicker was pulled over on the N3 highway near the town while allegedly travelling at 190km/h. The magistrate found Naicker guilty of the offence […]
AN ASIAN subsidiary of a South Africa’s Dimension Data (Didata) has joined forces with Samsung to bring voice, video and data products to market, Didtata said in a statement on Thursday. Datacraft Asia, owned by JSE-listed Didata, has signed a three-year deal to distribute and support Samsung’s range of “convergent technology” devices, which transmit and […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Cape Town | Saturday 7.30pm STRUGGLING against a strong north-westerly wind South Africa bounced back from a string of humiliating defeats to beat Australia 10-9 in a Tri-Nations clash at Newlands on Saturday. In a hard-fought battle in which the Cape Town wind forced both teams to resort to unglamorous but sensible kicking […]