PRIMEDIA announced results on Tuesday for the year ended June 30, 1999, with headline earnings per share down 22,5% to 93 cents from 120 cents. Attributable income per share fell 54.7 percent to 86 cents from 190 cents. Net attributable income was reported at R85,161-million compared with R248,29-million the year before, a drop of 65,7%. […]
MICHAEL FINCH, Seville | Wednesday 7.00pm. IF Hezekiel Sepeng has his way, a South African could cause the biggest upset at the 7th World Athletics championships in Seville. On Thursday, Sepeng, world indoor champion Johan Botha and national champion Lucky Hadebe compete in the first round heats of the men’s 800m, hopefully the first step […]
ANGLO-DUTCH oil giant Shell will soon resume operations at its flow stations in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region, company officials said on Tuesday. Shell shut down the Odidi flow stations in October last year following threats of disruption by rampaging youths demanding compensation for oil spills and environmental pollution. The closure cost Shell around 200_,000 barrels […]
AIR-LINK Swaziland on Tuesday dismissed government reports that staff at the small kingdom’s Manzini International Airport regularly steal items from travellers’ baggage. The thieves allegedly duped passengers by replacing valuable items in their baggage with stones, to ensure that they did not detect any difference in the weight of their suitcases. Air-Link general manager Teddy […]
ONE in every three police officers in East London was absent on any given day in 1998. The police officers were read the riot act by Minister of Safety and Security Steve Tshwete and SA Police Commissioner George Fivaz’s three weeks ago for rampant drunkenness and absenteeism. Bisho legislature’s safety and security committee was told […]
THE US Federal Reserve Bank’s Open Market Committee voted on Tuesday to raise interest rates by 25 basis points for the secnd time in two months. The rate stands at 5,25%. The move was widely expectd in the wake of figures showing hints of inflation in the US economy, and many markets around the world […]
THE Post Office is due to meet with the Communication Workers Union on Thursday afternoon under the auspices of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration in Johannesburg in a bid to resolve their current wage deadlock. This comes after the Post Office on Wednesday gave the union a 48-hour lockout notice. The CWU is […]
SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Thursday 1.30pm PUBLIC Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi on Thursday announced that the government will not make available any more money for pay increases in the public sector. Addressing a media briefing in Cape Town, Fraser-Moleketi said that while government will not up its offer, it is still prepared […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki will on Friday officially open the new international terminal at Johannesburg’s International Airport. Mbeki, who will be met at the airport by minister of transport Dullah Omar and high-ranking Airports Company South Africa officials, will deliver an address before unveiling a plaque to mark the occasion. The new section comprises a departure […]
A JOHANNESBURG businessman charged with theft in Zambia was released on Wednesday after almost 40 days in a Lusaka jail, following a High Court ruling that he had been wrongfully detained as an illegal immigrant. The Star reports on Thursday that Kieran James Haldenby (32) was arrested in Lusaka on July 4. He and three […]