WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM: THE Iwisa Charity Spectacular will kick-off at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, outside Johannesburg on July 19, and the organisers are hoping to raise R1,8-million for charity. Chairman of the National Soccer League/Iwisa Trust Alistair Wheatley said on Tuesday: “We want to make this the biggest and most spectacular event in the history […]
DRINK-DRIVE LAWS TOUGHENED The department of transport on Tuesday announced increased minimum sentences for druken driving and a decrease in the allowable blood-alcohol content from 0,08% to 0.05% in an effort to curb drunk driving. The announcement follows Justice Minister Dullah Omar’s statement that 15 000 cases of driving under the influence were reported last […]
TUESDAY, 8.30AM The black American investors who put some $50-million behind Pepsi’s return to South Africa, have threatened to call a US boycott of Pepsi after the soft drink giant’s decision to pull out of South Africa. New Age Beverages, the local bottling company owned by the Afro-Americans along with South African union partners, has […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: SEVERAL star members of the Springbok rugby Test team are injured, and some of them may miss the rest of the series against the British Lions. James Small is the latest in a string of players who look to be non-starters in the upcoming second Test match against the Lions in Durban on […]
TUESDAY, 4.00PM THE Organisation of African Unity on Monday appealed to the United Nations Security Council to speed up the deployment of an inter-African Force in Brazzaville, the capital of Congo, where fighting resumed on Monday, ending a week-long ceasefire. In a communique issued in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa at the end of the […]
TUESDAY, 10.30AM BRITISH Airways, which has confirmed its interest in buying a strategic equity stake in SA Airways, on Monday spelled out its terms for any deal, suggesting that it might be opposed to certain black empowerment groups or unions being shareholders. BA director Sir Robin Renwick said yesterday BA will not make an offer […]
TUESDAY, 2.30PM THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission said on Tuesday it hopes to subpoena Winnie Madikizela Mandela to testify before a closed hearing of the commission within a month. TRC investigative unit head Dumisa Ntsebeza refused to confirm a report, in Business Day this morning, that the commission had been given a map showing the […]
TUESDAY, 3.30PM FORMER Free State MEC Ace Magashule has received the go-ahead to take up his seat in the National Assembly when Parliament reconvenes in August. Magashule was at the centre of last year’s bitter power struggle in the Free State government, which led to the removal of premier Patrick “Terror” Lekota to be redeployed […]
MONDAY, 6.30PM GOLD shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange rose and fell with the bullion price on Monday, before closing 12,3 points down at 1 015,1 as bullion fell to a new four-year low of $336,95/oz. Bullion’s fall from grace has been ascribed, among other things, to the delinking of the platinum price from the […]
MONDAY, 12.00NOON: AFRICAN soccer at the weekend offered a string of African Nations Cup surprises, including wins by underdogs Namibia, Angola and Malawi, and Cameroon’s draw with Gabon. Namibia beat soccer-giants Kenya 1-0 in their Group Five African Nations cup qualifier match in Nairobi on Saturday. Namibia, who beat Liberia 2-1 in a World Cup […]