STANDARD Bank announced on Wednesday that it is to cut its prime and home loan lending rates by half a percent to 17,5%, effective from July 14.
THREE Sudanese newspapers, including a pro-government one, have been suspended for publishing articles considered breaches of a press law. The Al Rai Al Akher, Alwan and Al Bayan dailies were on Monday served letters from the National Press Council ordering them to close down for three days, two days and one day respectively as of […]
THE R903 500 Billabong MSF Pro Championships will run a full day of surfing on Tuesday in excellent half to one metre conditions at Supertubes Jeffrey’s Bay, where the womens’ event will crown a champion by the end of the day. Womens world champion and current ratings leader Layne Beachley (Aus) will open the surfing […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.05pm. Three self-described missionaries for the Indianapolis-based Harvestfield Ministries professed their innocence in the Harare High Court on Wednesday. The three Americans, arrested on weapons charges at Harare’s airport on March 7, told the court they were shipping guns home to the United States after closing their church mission in […]
THE wife of Deputy President Jacob Zuma, who was attacked at her home in KwaZulu-Natal over the weekend, has been discharged from Eshowe hospital. Police said Sizakhele Zuma was sleeping at her home in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday night when three men broke into the house and attacked her at gunpoint before ransacking the house. The […]
AUTHORITIES in Mauritania have decided to expel all French military advisers and to introduce visa requirements for visiting French citizens beginning in August. The measures, announced in Nouakchott Monday, are in retaliation for the indictment and imprisonment of a Mauritinian army officer, Naine Ely Ould Dah. Ould Dah allegedly tortured detainees between 1990 and 1991. […]
MICHAEL METELITS and ROB DAVIES, Brits | Tuesday, 1.25pm. BY midday Tuesday a few people have gathered across from the African Game Services centre in Skeerpoort where the Tuli elephants are currently held in an impromptu demonstration. While participants said “private concerned individuals” have organised the protest, they also indicated that more demonstrators are expected […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 1.00pm. INJURIES to three key Pirates’ players in Sunday’s 1-0 victory over ASEC Mimosas forced them to sit out the training session for the Vodacom African Challenge final against Esperance of Tunisia at King’s Park on Sunday. Midfielder Thabo Mngomeni, defender Guy-Roger Nzeng, and striker Andries Sebola missed training for […]
MORE than 400000 residents of Cotonou drink polluted water in Benin’s business capital, according to an official in the ministry of health, Dr Moussa Yarou. Yarou, who heads the public health and sanitation unit, told reporters last week that refuse from households and septic tanks had infiltrated all the wells in Cotonou. He expressed concern […]
KENYA has decided to close its border with Somalia, a move the government said is aimed at “taming” the further influx of Somali refugees and defeated militiamen. North Eastern Provincial Commissioner Maurice Makhanu said the decision also bars movement of people, vehicles and goods from Somalia. He explained in a statement on national radio Monday […]