OWN CORRESPONDENT, Glasgow | Monday 1.00pm. NAMIBIAN international Quinton Jacobs says he will keep his word to join lowly Partick Thistle, despite interest in the midfielder from Dutch giants Ajax and Belgian outfit Anderlecht. Jacobs, 20, is set for a debut in the Scottish League Cup tie against Alloa after refusing to go back on […]
THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange said that that four companies face suspension of their listings because they have not submitted financial statements within six months of their financial year ends. The companies are Karos Hotels Ltd, Marlin Corp Ltd, Marlin Holdings Ltd and Mhangura Copper Mines Ltd. The companies have until July 31 this year to […]
THE head of the military junta on Grande Comore and the leader of the separatists on the island of Anjouan pledged on Saturday to work together for peace.
SOUTHERN Africa has the world’s fastest accelerating Aids rate and is confronting debilitating human and economic devastation with 10% of its workforce infected, the Southern African Economic Summit in Durban heard on Sunday. Martin Harvey, head of a Zimbabwean insurance company, told delegates Zimbabwe had lost one million people to Aids in six years. In […]
THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange announced on the weekend that it is extending the deadline for the introduction of the pilot phase of its new electronic settlement system, Strate, to the end of the third quarter of this year. The JSE said the extension will not impact on the Y2K projects of the JSE, or anyone […]
FIVE thousand miners from ERPM gold mine on the East Rand are to be retrenched with immediate effect, SABC news reported on Monday. This follows government’s refusal to assist the mine with bridging finance of R18-million, the broadcaster said. ERPM has been in serious financial crisis since 1990 but the government has spent R450-million in […]
THE South African Local Government Association on Tuesday suspended its financial manager Carol Mpapele following his arrest on Monday on corruption charges. Mpapele briefly appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Monday afternoon after he allegedly received a bribe from an IT company that was contracted to install network cables at Salga’s new offices in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 3.15pm. BANGLADESH will choose a new national cricket coach from either South Africa or Australia following the controversial departure of West Indian Gordon Greenidge, reports said on Friday. “We are expecting the new coach either from South Africa or Australia,” Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Saber Hossain Chowdhury was quoted […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Saturday 6.00pm. ARGENTINE-BRED El Picha, under jockey Robbie Hill, swept up on the outside to win Saturday’s Durban July. The 12-1 gelding is owned by former trainer Terrence Millard, six times a July winner, and trained by his son-in-law Jeff Woodruff. This was Woodruff’s first July victory. Favourite to win at […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dunedin | Sunday 8.00pm. JONAH LOMU will rejoin the All Black squad on Monday but is unlikely to make the starting 15 for the Tri Nations Test with South Africa next Saturday. Lomu was impressive in the New Zealand A win over the ACT Brumbies in Canberra on Saturday night. But All Blacks […]