EIGHT Soweto chop shops were closed down in a joint operation on Tuesday involving police, the SA National Defence Force, the SA Revenue Service and Johannesburg’s Southern Metropolitan Council. Some 20 allegedly stolen car engines, as well as numerous parts thought to belong to stolen cars were seized. In addition, all buildings and structures on […]

A DAMNING report on mismanagement at Alexkor, the state-owned diamond mine, could result in the restructuring of the entire Alexkor board, government sources said on Tuesday. Business Report indicates that the report, compiled by the Nabera consortium which won the management contract last year, alleged “large-scale theft, poor financial management and the mismanagement of the […]

DIMENSION Data Holdings (Didata), the country’s largest communication systems integration company, said on Monday it has launched an independent logistics company providing shipping services to high technology companies in South Africa and abroad. The services provided by Didata’s internal unit will now be marketed to other firms and overseas. The JSE-listed group currently shipped products […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.15pm. THE South African Agricultural Union has launched a trust fund aimed at raising money for rural security. The Agri Securitas Trust Fund was launched in Port Elizabeth on Wednesday with the stated aim of “generating funds to protect farming communities throughout South Africa and reverse the growing trend of […]

FIVE British men are missing after a string of kidnappings in Nigeria, the foreign office said on Tuesday night. Some of those seized were oil workers. The British government said the hostages had been captured in three separate incidents on August 3, on Friday and on Monday. The foreign office confirmed that two of those […]

INVESTMENT bank Genbel Securities (Gensec) said on Wednesday it is on track to exceed its earnings for last year, earning 173 cents a share for the six months to June 30. While this is 2 cents less than last year’s 175 cents per share for the same period, financial markets then were healthy and now […]

THE Nigerian government is seeking help from academics on how to combat erosion has already eaten away much of Lagos’s main tourist beach. President Olusegun Obasanjo appealed on Monday to marine experts to offer a solution as he toured Lagos’s Bar Beach, a three kilometre beachfront district popular with residents and visitors to the city. […]

JONAS Savimbi, leader of the UNITA rebel movement in Angola, has denied that there is a humanitarian crisis in Angola, the BBC reported on Monday. In an interview with the BBC’s Portuguese service, Savimbi said that all such claims were “lies” and that international aid “was stolen by government soldiers.” Humanitarian officials in Angola have […]

‘A planned ‘hunt’ for prostitutes on a South African game ranch flopped this weekend when thousands of bikers failed to turn up for the event. Organisers had planned the hunt to entertain over 5000 bikers expected at a rally on a farm in the Northern Province on Saturday. Bikers had been expected to jump at […]

THE South African Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights on Tuesday accused the Department of Correctional Services of “flagrantly” violating the constitutional right of about 500 prisoners at the Leeukop prison outside Johannesburg where there has been no water for two days. Sapohr spokesman Phineas Mnambathi said prisoners are living in inhumane conditions. He said the […]