SMARTING from a humiliating defeat by minnows, Swaziland, in the Cosafa Castle Cup on Sunday, Zimbabwe has recalled six of its foreign-based senior national soccer team players for its crucial match against Senegal, who showed they mean business when they thrashed Eritrea 6-2 one the same day. Zimbabwe only managed a 1-0 win over Eritrea […]
SHARES in information technology companies, once the darlings of the bourse, came under pressure on Wednesday following a hefty fall in technology shares in the United States overnight. By 10.45am, the IT index on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange was down 1,6% to 719,4 — hitting its lowest level this year to 710,0 earlier. Since its […]
MICHAEL FINCH, Johannesburg | Thursday 11.00am. AN athlete who admitted cheating by running South Africa’s Comrades Marathon in relay with his brother, on Wednesday became the third runner disqualified from this year’s race. Their plan was foiled only because photographs showed ninth placed finisher Sergio Motsoeneng wearing different watches at various stages of the race. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT and LUCIA MUTIKANI, Pretoria | Thursday 8.00pm LABOUR Minister Membathise Mdladlana said on Thursday that government will have to consider the human cost of restructuring parastatals and decide how far it is prepared to push the process. Mdladlana said his department has along been examining the impact of privatisation, and has produced a […]
ALAN BALDWIN, London | Thursday 12.00pm. PRINCE Malik Ado Ibrahim is chasing a motor racing dream. A dream to take Formula One, the sport notable for millionaire lifestyles and beloved of white European aristocracy, to the heart of Africa. The 38-year-old Nigerian arrived among the elite in motor racing in January this year when he […]
MOZAMBIQUE has made a formal protest to Zimbabwe over an exercise to deport hundreds of illegal Mozambican immigrants, the Maputo government said on Wednesday. At least 600 Mozambicans were dumped across the border in central Manica province on Friday, Foreign Minister Leornado Simao said. A further 400 illegal immigrants have been identified for deportation. Mozambique […]
THE International Monetary Fund is expected to implement a new economic monitoring programme in Angola. The programme is designed to pave the way for future financial aid to the southern African country. The programme stipulates strict expenditure controls, reductions in the number of civil servants, drops in inflation rates, and more transparency in its accounts. […]
THE Association of Unit Trust’s on Tuesday announced a reclassification of unit trusts that may require investors to play a more active role in the management of the trusts. Business Day reports that funds will now be classified as domestic funds (at least 85% invested in South African markets), worldwide funds (local and foreign with […]
SEX symbol Pamela Anderson has written to President Thabo Mbeki asking him to intervene in the abuses of the young elephants from Tuli in Botswana, now held near Brits in the North West. Writing on the letterhead of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta), Anderson said she had believed the abuses of African […]
AN SA Air Force jet pilot survived a low-level crash at a bombing range in the Northern Province on Wednesday morning by ejecting from his Mark Two Impala at 100 feet. Major Garry Loney of Hoedspruit airbase was practising at the Roodewal bombing range, 20km north of Pietersburg, and crashed as he was taking off. […]