JAMES BRYANT, Edgbaston | Wednesday 5.35pm TOURNAMENT favourites South Africa take on New Zealand in the World Cup Super Six on Thursday having learned some sobering lessons from the recent tightly fought series against them. The Kiwis ran South Africa very close in a one-day tournament on their home soil earlier this year which the […]
MONDAY, 6.00PM: THE Receiver of Revenue has demanded more than R600000 in unpaid taxes from a computer company that handled R40-million worth of provincial contracts. African Eye News Service reports that Mayibuye Computer Services has laid off most of its technical computer staff, has failed to pay its remaining staff since January, and is attempting […]
HUGE deposits of minerals including potash and sulphur have been discovered in Ethiopia’s northeastern Afar state, officials in Addis Ababa said on Tuesday. Ethiopian and foreign prospectors have found “a huge deposit in the form of salt, potash, sulphur, marble, granite and limestone”, according to the regional office for development, mines and energy, which said […]
NORTHERN PROVINCE premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi warned on Monday that he would not re-appoint lazy or ineffective politicians to the provincial cabinet next week. Declining to name those accused of inefficiency, Ramatlhodi said he would only re-appoint MECs who had proven their integrity and who had a firm grasp of their portfolios. Anyone who failed to […]
THE Boere Weerstandsbeweging on Monday warned Freedom Front leader General Constand Viljoen that a Boer council could order his elimination if he refused to disband his party. BWB secretary general Dries Kriel said Viljoen could be outlawed or declared an “enemy of the Boer volk” by the council. The BWB, supporters of the reinstatement of […]
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found a 5000-year-old necropolis in Egypt’s northern Delta region containing 100 funerary chambers and unique flint objects, a Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) official said Monday. Cosmetic boxes, flint knives and terra cotta vases with drawings of the fish-goddess Hat-mayhet were found in the funerary chambers which date back to the 1st and […]
MINING exploration company Noble Minerals made a tentative debut on the Johannesburg bourse on Friday, weighed by investors taking profits on the listing and a slightly weaker resources sector. Noble, which has diamond and manganese exploration projects in two provinces, first traded at 50c — 5c above the price at which shares were issued to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Tuesday 1.30am FORMER Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock said on Tuesday he would not have killed askari Johannes Mabotha if he had known Mabotha was to have testified against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in a possible high treason case. He told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee in Pretoria that he would […]
THE White House said on Monday it will nominate Delano Lewis, a former National Public Radio director, to be the United States’ ambassador to South Africa. Lewis served as assistant director of operations for the Peace Corps in Nigeria in the 1960s and then as Uganda’s Peace Corps director. Later, he became director of Peace […]
The Nigerian stock market has adopted a wait-and-see attitude to the country’s new civilian government. The stock index has barely changed from last week. At the close, the All Share Index dropped 3,3 naira to 4916,21, a fall of 0,07% from last Friday. Brokers say business reaction to the return to civilian rule after years […]