OWN CORRESPONDENT, Sydney | Tuesday 12.15pm. SOUTH Africa’s Penny Heyns continued her remarkable comeback to swimming’s big-time on Monday, shattering her own world record for the 100m breaststroke at the Pan Pacific championships, a year after vowing to quit a sport she had begun to hate. Heyns’ fifth world record in five weeks – and […]
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MINING and steel firm Iscor saw its net operating income slump by 23% to R371-million in the six months ending December due mainly to the collapse in international steel prices. Operating income from steel went R26-million into the red in the period against a positive R250-million for the same six months of 1997. The mining […]
THE National Union of Mineworkers warned on Thursday night that several thousand of its workers will strike on Friday. Late reports indicate that a number of smaller unions have settled the wage dispute with employers. The strike is expected to hit Anglo American Coal (AmCoal) which has nine collieries, and Ingwe. Also expected to be […]
THE marriages of millions of black South Africans may not be recognised by the state and their children could be regarded as having been born out of wedlock, the Sunday Times reported. The Department of Home Affairs admitted on Saturday that marriages of black couples and births of black children before 1990 were never entered […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Tuesday 1.45pm. THE South African central Reserve Bank is committed to controlling inflation and securing financial stability, new governor Tito Mboweni said on Tuesday in his first policy address. Mboweni said the programme could be initiated only after consultation with various groups, including government, labour and business. He warned, however, that […]
NEW Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni is due to host the 78-year-old institution’s annual general meeting on Tuesday and, in keeping with tradition, will deliver the bank’s main policy statement of the year. Mboweni, a former African National Congress labour minister, has said the speech will yield no “earth-shattering” news in a bid to diffuse […]
POLICE in Messina have arrested a 34-year-old man for poisoning more than 50 head of wild game at a dam on a Northern Province farm last weekend. Messina police spokesman Captain Thomas Bilankulu on Tuesday said a 34-year-old man was arrested on Monday afternoon while selling guinea fowl flesh to workers at Doreen Estate, a […]
FOREIGN speculators are using desperately poor villagers to plunder Mozambique’s national forests of rare hardwoods and other valuable resources, a government spokesman said on Monday. The hardwoods, rare animal species and minerals such as gold are trucked out of the country to Malawi through under-equipped border posts at Milange and Morrumbala. Gabriel Papusseco said that […]
A NEW opposition political party was launched in Zimbabwe at the weekend ahead of the country’s legislative elections due next year, local daily papers reported Monday. The Zimbabwe Integrated Party is headed by a mathematics professor, Heneri Dzinotyiweyi. Dzinotyiweyi has accused the ruling ZANU-PF party leadership for being bent on enriching itself at the expense […]