MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.30pm. HOLDERS of life insurance policies will be able to get a higher price when selling the assets in the near future as Sanlam and Policy Link, an Australian firm, have an agreement to formalise the handling of second-hand policies. Regular procedures for handling the second-hand policies will raise the […]
THE Nigerian Air Force is selling its Jaguar, Mig-21 and G22 aircraft through open bidding, the chief of air staff, Air Vice-Marshal Isaac Alfa, said. He told airforce personnel at the Ikeja Air Force Logistics Command in Lagos that the money realised from the sale will be used to buy needed multi-role combat aircraft. He […]
MICHAEL FINCH, Seville | Wednesday 12.00pm. DARE one suggest it, but Okkert Brits is back. The world’s third highest ever polevaulter, who has gone through a three year valley of darkness, finally saw some light at the end of the tunnel on the fourth day of the 7th World Athletics championships in Seville. Battling back […]
THE Post Office on Wednesday gave the Communication Workers’ Union a 48-hour notice that striking workers will be locked out of the work area. Post Office communications general manager Sandile Madolo said a 48-hour lock-out notice was given to the CWU national office to “…prevent postal service standards from further being negatively affected by the […]
THE state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation have signed an agreement on the execution of the West African Gas Pipeline project. The deal is a follow-up to the agreement signed in Cotonou, Benin, 11 August between Nigeria, Ghana, Benin and Togo, and Chevron Nigeria and the Nigerian Gas Company. The […]
FREEZING cold weather is expected to last a few days after snow fell in KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and Lesotho on Tuesday, the weather bureau said. Bureau spokesman Peter Pretorius said although the cold front has passed, it will still take a few days before it started warming up again. Pretorius said the front was a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Manchester | Wednesday 4.25pm. BAFANA Bafana midfielder Quinton Fortune on Wednesday completed his move to Manchester United after being issued with a work permit. Fortune has signed a four-year contract at Old Trafford following his transfer from Atletico Madrid in a deal worth a reported 1.5-million. The midfielder, a member of South Africa’s […]
EIGHT civilians have been killed in two ambushes blamed on rebels in eastern Angola, private Catholic radio Ecclesia reported on Wednesday. On Monday six people were killed in an ambush while heading for Kota, some 400 kilometers east of the capital Luanda, from Malanje in search of food, which has become scarce since civil war […]
Nepal is honouring former president Nelson Mandela with an award dedicated to the memory of a Nepalese revolutionary.
PHILLIP NKOSI, Middelburg | Wednesday 2.25pm ANGLO American Coal Corporation (Amcoal) is to meet the National Union of Mineworkers later on Wednesday to try to end a five-day strike by 9000 miners in eight of the company’s nine mines in Mpumalanga. NUM provincial chairman Crosby Moni said the meeting was called by Amcoal, and will […]