ARMED robbers escaped with R500000 after ramming their vehicle into a cash-in-transit security van in Lansdowne in Cape Town on Friday morning. Police spokesperson Jacques Wiese said the Transcash vehicle was on the way to make a cash delivery when a Ford Courier bakkie collided with the van in Induna Crescent at 8.15am. Three armed […]
BELGIUM’S D’Ieteren and Cobepa said on Thursday they are “in advanced negotiations” with South African Breweries to buy SAB’s 68% stake in South African car glass maker Plate Glass Shatterprufe Industries. Car importer D’Ieteren and holding company Cobepa said in a statement the transaction should be concluded “within the next four months”. The statement said […]
BOE PRIVATE Bank is lowering its private banking facility rate to 15,25% per annum from 16% with effect from Monday August 2. The BoE Private Bank facility rate is the base rate on which loans to private clients is made including home loan business. The bank’s senior general manager Eric Monson said the rates applied […]
A FOURTEEN year old boy died minutes after he was savaged by a shark at Buffels Bay in the Western Cape resort of Knysna on Thursday. Hercules Pretorius, was body-boarding with two friends off a beach when the shark attacked about 50mfrom shore. He was bitten in the side and died before an emergency medical […]
CARGO handling problems at Durban port, caused initially by the implementation of a new computer system, have now escalated into a full-blown crisis, the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry warned on Thursday. Calling for urgent government intervention, it said the crisis is causing severe repercussions for businesses involved in importing and exporting, thus jeopardising […]
THE seasonally adjusted value of construction work on hand at the end of the first quarter of this year decreased by 5,3% (R862-million) to R15,31-billion compared with the last quarter of 1998, figures released on Thursday by StatsSA showed. However, the value of work done during the first quarter of this year equalled that of […]
SCHOOL, church and sport club raffles will be banned, along with unregistered lotteries, ahead of the launch of a national lottery. National Lottery Board chairman Joe Foster told The Citizen newspaper on Friday such contests, as well as promotional competitions organised by private companies, will be subject to stringent restrictions on their purposes and ticket […]
A CALL by the Namibian National Society for Human Rights to establish a truth commission to examine human rights abuses during the Namibian independence struggle has been sharply criticised by the ruling South West African People’s Organisation. Swapo warned that: ”those engaged in this reckless adventure should be on notice that the ugly devil would […]
EDUCATION Minister Kader Asmal on Thursday recieved an honorary fellowship from his alma mater, the London School of Economics and Politics. The institute gave its highest accolade for Asmal’s work in fighting apartheid, as well as his successful tenure as the Water Affairs and Forestry Minister in the country’s first democratic Cabinet. Asmal, regarded as […]
Shaun de Waal British movie of the week Since the Sixties, left-wing director Ken Loach has focused on working-class life in Britain, using an uncompromising style of social realism to do it. He often uses non-actors, and he won’t let his cast see the whole script beforehand – instead, he gives it to them piecemeal […]