CAPTAIN John Eales and first choice fly-half Stephen Larkham were among nine Wallabies named on Thursday in the Australian Barbarians rugby team to play Fiji here on August 18. The match for Australia’s official second team is important to a number of Wallabies seeking match time ahead of October’s World Cup, including Eales, Larkham, utility […]
ENERGY Africa, the independent South African-based oil and gas exploration and production group, said Friday it had appointed one of its existing directors, Dato’ M Idris Mansor, (54) as chairman of the company. This follows the resignation of Rob Angel as chairman on June 11. Dato’ M Idris Mansor has been on the board of […]
NORTH West Premier Popo Molefe is scheduled to address domestic and farm employees at Hartebeespoort, north of Pretoria on Sunday, Network Radio News reported. The Brits district chairman of the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu), Solly Phetoe, said the purpose of the rally is to educate the workers on how to protect themselves against […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 3.45pm THE Office for Serious Economic Offences in investigating high-level bank fraud that sees millions of rands siphoned off the bank by employees. City Bank staff are suspected of having defrauded the institute of millions of rand using a scheme that takes advantage of public holidays in South Africa that […]
DURBAN Roodepoort Deep gold mine announced on Wednesday that it is considering closing three unprofitable mine shafts at its West Wits mine. The closure threatens the jobs of 260 miners, most of them contract workers. The mining group said in a statement that the closures are sparked by the low gold price. The announcement comes […]
OPERATIONS at the Durban port appear to be back on track again after serious disruptions caused by the introduction of a new high-tech computer system which left goods rotting in containers at the harbour. Statistics presented by Portnet management at a meeting with the South African Chamber of Business (Sacob) in Johannesburg on Wednesday showed […]
BRITAIN’S MI6 overseas intelligence agency allegedly paid a former South African secret service agent to carry out illegal bugging and phone tapping, the Sunday Times reported. Chris Clark claims he was paid 10,500 pounds (R105000) last year by a British diplomat in Paris to bug the telephone and steal documents belonging to Alain Gomez, honorary […]
THE impoverished southern African state of Malawi loses up to $12-million a year in uncollected taxes through informal trade with neighbouring countries, according to a report released on Thursday. The report by the University of Malawi, funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), blamed the problem on restrictive trade policies in the region. […]
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PUBLIC service unions and the state were still on Friday locked in talks in Pretoria in a bid to resolve a seven-month pay deadlock. The talks in the public service central bargaining chamber started at about 10.30am, a spokesman for Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said. Some of the 12 unions had lowered […]