PIETER BRUWER, Johannesburg | Monday 9.40am SUNFLOWER seeds and chickens were two of the main reasons the economy expanded at a faster-than-expected rate in the second quarter, according to the latest Gross Domestic Product figures released by Statistics South Africa on Monday. Stats SA said that the economy grew by 1,7% in the second quarter […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.50am THE domestic airline price war which saw Sun Air throw in the towel last week apparently had little impact on Comair’s financial results. The airline has continued its unbroken record of profit growth, increasing headline earnings per share by 40% from 15c to 21c/share in the financial year to […]

WELL-KNOWN South African actor and television presenter Fats Dibeco died at his Soweto home on Tuesday. The 62-year-old “Bra Fats” as he was affectionately known, was a household name to thousands of SABC 1 viewers of Friday night’s top-rated sports show, Woza Weekend. Although many people, mostly the younger generation, knew him for his television […]

SABC 2 continuity presenter and Generations actress Florence Masebe, who was shot outside her Johannesburg home on Wednesday night, is in a stable condition after a six-hour operation. A spokesman for the Johannesburg private clinic where she was admitted said the surgery went well and Masebe will remain in the high care ward, which is […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 3.30pm. THE government’s two partners in its tripartite alliance must not abandon the African National Congress, despite a “job bloodbath” under the leadership of their ruling party partner, the South African Communist Party said on Thursday. SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande told the second day of the Congress of South […]

THE government plans to spend R2,6 million on rennovating and repairing Genadendal, President Thabo Mbeki’s official residence in Rondebosch, Cape Town, the Sunday Times newspaper reported on Sunday. It quoted Sivi Gounden, the acting director-general of the department of public works and administration, as saying the work will be put out to tender in two […]

BRITISH Airways Travel Clinics on Sunday reported an outbreak of a rare and highly disabling disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Konzo, a disease which damages the nervous system causing an incurable and sometimes fatal paralysis, has struck the province of Bas-Congo. It is women and children who seem to be most at risk […]

BARELY a month after blasting his ministers for “accepting huge bribes” to influence the awarding of government tenders President Robert Mugabe gave his ministers, and their deputies, hefty salary increases of 182% backdated to last month. The ministers allowances have also been hiked by 50%, according to the weekly Financial Gazette. Mugabe, his ministers and […]

ALLEGED triple murderer Charles Raboroko, a teacher at a Soweto school, on Wednesday told the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court he had not attended court on Tuesday because he was unable to pay bribe money to prison warders. He said he lacked funds to pay warders at the Johannesburg Prison who told him to give them the […]