A CALLER who made a telephonic bomb threat to the Graceland Casino in Secunda, Mpumalanga, on Friday claimed he represents People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) Global Resorts MD Ernie Joubert confirmed on Saturday. The casino received four telephonic bomb threats on Friday. The threats were allegedly made by four different people and one of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kingston | Monday 9.00am BAFANA BAFANA completed a two-match tour of the Caribbean by drawing 1-1 with Jamaica at the Independence Stadium in Kingston on Sunday. The 1996 African champions, who suffered a shock 2-0 loss in Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday, showed greater urgency and commitment in a friendly match that seldom […]
VISITING Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe held talks with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Khatami on Saturday on ways to promote political and economic ties, state radio said. Mugabe, who arrived here on Friday, said Zimbabwe was willing to expand cooperation in various sectors, including agriculture, mining and refining. During his three-day visit, Mugabe is also due […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Monday 6.00pm. MOST indices on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange drifted without direction on Monday, while gold lost over 5%. The rand stayed in a range around R6,15, while bonds slipped. Dealers lamented the lack of direction in the equities market, as a firm opening on the JSE gave way to moderate […]
ALLAN Boesak, who has petitioned the Chief Justice for leave to appeal following his recent six-year sentence for theft, has confirmed that his wife Elna is five months pregnant with their second child. “I’m ecstatic,” Boesak is reported in the Cape Times as saying. He was sentenced in March to six years imprisonment for stealing […]
ANGLOGOLD, the world’s largest gold producer, said on Friday that it was unperturbed by the proposed sale of more than half of the British Treasury’s gold reserves. AngloGold marketing director Kelvin Williams said that the quantities of its gold reserves Britain is planning to sell would not impact severely on the market. The British Treasury […]
HOOKER James Dalton, only recently recovered from a groin injury, has re-injured his groin on the same side while kicking in a training session. Dalton has played a couple of club games for Rand Afrikaans, but has not suited up for a Super 12 match yet, and will miss tests against Italy and Wales. James […]
MICROSOFT SA, the Associated South African Music Industry and the Pretoria branch of the police commercial crime unit this week joined forces against copyright violation. In a joint statement issued on Friday, the three bodies said the police, at the request of Microsoft and ASAMI, conducted a raid on a person suspected of making illegal […]
SIX people, including an elderly blind man, were shot dead in Tugela Ferry in volatile KwaZulu-Natal province on Thursday, police said on Friday morning. The murders seemed to be the work of gunmen going from hut to hut in the village, firing into the victims’ homes early Thursday, police spokesman Captain Vishnu Naidoo said. Police […]
THE World Health Organisation on Friday confirmed that the epidemic of haemorrhagic fever in northeastern DRC is not due to the Ebola virus, but could be caused by the related Marburg virus. One of five samples analysed in South Africa tested positive for Marburg virus, the other four were negative. Revised figures from the WHO […]