THURSDAY, 1.30PM: NEWLY appointed Springbok coach Nick Mallett on Wednesday announced his management team for the forthcoming tour of Italy, France and the United Kingdom. Mallett included unknown and inexperienced Alan Solomons and Pieter de Villiers — both from the Western Province — as his two assistants, and Gauteng Lions’ Jake White as his technical […]
THURSDAY, 1.30PM: BAFANA Bafana central defender Mark Fish has been ruled out of the match against Fance in Lens on October 11 because of an ankle injury he suffered while playing for his club last week. South African Football Association (Safa) CEO Danny Jordaan on Wednesday announced that the Bolton Wanderers defender will be out […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM MINING house Johannesburg Consolidated Investments has split its gold mining operations into two independently managed companies as part of a move to become a diversified operating company. Executive director Brett Kebble said the company’s gold division will be split according to principles of quality and quantity, thus the low-cost, high-quality Western Areas South, […]
THURSDAY, 1.30PM: SOUTH African Rugby Football Union senior vice-president Mluleki George has made himself available as a candidate for election as president of Sarfu. George was nominated by the rugby unions of Border , Natal, Boland and Free State. It is believed that George — former Border scrumhalf — can win enough votes to beat […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM THE US-based Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Company has awarded South African rand-denominated stock an “A” investment grade, the highest rating so far given to SA debt. A high investment rating increases the likelihood of a country’s attracting foreign investment, and allows it to obtain foreign credit at improved rates. The finance ministry […]
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Rural schools suffer many deprivations, but none so severe as the shortage of libraries, writes Lizeka Mda Alan Paton most certainly did not have Moletlane in mind when he wrote the line: Ah, but your land is beautiful. This village, some 56km east of Potgietersrus in the Northern Province, typifies what the bantustans symbolised arid […]
Mungo Soggot Top economists are pulling their own money out of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) amid fears that, 10 years after the 1987 crash, foreign equity markets are in for a heavy correction and the JSE will follow suit. While the JSE has been falling since August 7 the end of a bull run […]
Stephen Gray : Unspoilt places Of the half-a-dozen reserves under the new parks board of North West province, Botsalano Game Reserve is the least known. Friends of mine in neighbouring Mafikeng had never heard of it. After a week of repeat-dialling I raised an answer from Andries Motlhoiwa, its senior game scout. Rusty Hustler, the […]
prehistory, or a hoax? A maverick academics fight to prove that Indian traders fathered the Khoikhoi has been ridiculed, writes Ruben Mowszowski, but now he claims to have the proof Fate has a way of rewarding those who are persistent or at least providing them with a sign that they are on the right track. […]