TUESDAY, 1.30PM: THE South African Football Association (Safa) and its marketing arm Awesome Sports International (ASI) will jointly stage this year’s Four Nations Cup tournament. ASI co-director Ian Riley and Safa chief executive officer Danny Jordaan said the marketing company is negotiating for a sponsor, but the tournament is a Safa event. This follows submisions […]
TUESDAY, 4.00PM ZIMBABWEAN liberation war veterans, who have for the past week been demonstrating in support of demands for compensation pay-outs from the government’s War Victims’ Compensation Fund, on Tuesday disrupted traffic to a Harare conference centre where an African-American summit was due to begin. Riot police stood by as the protesters were prevented from […]
TUESDAY, 4.00PM TEN miners are confirmed dead at Avgold’s Hartebeesfontein mine near Stilfontein in North-West province, after an earth tremor precipitated a rockburst on Monday morning. As rescue operations continue at the mine, hopes are fading that eight miners who remain trapped three kilometres underground are still alive. So far, 46 injured miners have been […]
TUESDAY, 1.30PM: ANDRE JOUBERT was on Monday left out of the Springbok squad to tour Australia. Springbok coach Carel du Plessis said Joubert passed the medical test, but will be left out in a bid to strengthen other positions. Du Plessis decided to include Natal centre Japie Mulder, who also went for a fitness test […]
TUESDAY, 1.30PM: DISCUS thrower Fritz Potgieter was on Monday added to the team to take part in the world championships in Athens between August 1 to 11. This comes after Potgieter’s recent world-class perfomances in Europe. Potgieter achieved a world-championships qualifying distance in 64.16m in England last Tuesday. Athletics South Africa also included a 4×400 […]
TUESDAY, 4.00PM AS peace talks between Congolese President Pascal Lissouba and his rival and predecessor Denis Sassou Nguesso in the Gabonese capital Libreville bogged down on Tuesday, Lissouba’s supporters, emboldened by Monday’s extension of the president’s mandate, called for a “general mobilisation” against the militia of Sassou Nguesso. A representative of Lissouba’s 16-party support base […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM INSTITUTIONAL investors from America, Europe and the United Kingdom have pounced on Billiton’s offer of shares, way exceeding market expectations. The company will trade for the first time on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday, at first conditionally, then normally from next Monday. Billiton and financial advisers Fleming Martin said in London on […]
NUPEN TO RETURN TO ILO CHARLES NUPEN, the director of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, will leave his post at the end of October to resume his contract with the International Labour Organisation, the labour ministry announced on Tuesday. The ILO released Nupen to take up a short-term contract with the CCMA when […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s all gold index edged back over the 1 000 point mark on Monday for the first time in three weeks, but the rand took a beating, falling to a six-month low against the US dollar. Following Friday’s close at 992, the gold index leapt to an opening 1 014, […]
TUESDAY, 3.30PM A NEW draft Bill providing for a tougher parole system was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. Among the provisions of the Bill include allowing courts to fix a non-parole period of a convict’s sentence, and revamped parole boards with greater community representation. The Bill proposes that where a court has set a non-parole […]