THE fall US Internet share prices has knocked some R4,55-billion ($700-million) off the sale price of Thawte Consulting, owned by Cape Town billionaire Mark Shuttleworth. Shuttleworth’s earnings from the sale of Thawte, to Internet security giant VeriSign, would initially have amounted to R7,47-billion ($1,15bn), but he says that he will now earn only some R2,92-billion […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 1.15pm. THE monthly inflation rate — measured as the rate of change of the consumer price index — rose 3,4% in March after rising 2,4% in February, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. The rise is higher than expected and puts pay to expectations of interest rate cuts in the […]
SOUTH African Airways is to split off its profitable engineering and maintenance operation into a separate private company, according to the Business Report. Transnet Managing Director Saki Macozoma said SAA will look for an equity partner for the new company. The new technical company will remain in the SAA fold, and SAA will retain a […]
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OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 4.15pm THE United Cricket Board of South Africa will investigate a 1996 team meeting at which South African players were allegedly offered $250000 dollars to lose a game against India. Several players who were on the 1996-97 tour of India have confirmed an offer was conveyed to the team […]
THREE Indian cricketers admitted placing bets on a match in England a few years ago, a former head of India’s cricket control board said on Sunday. “When confronted by me they admitted they were placing small bets on matches at a legal betting place in England,” Inderjit Singh Bindra, former president of the Board for […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 6.30am. JOE Ndhlela, Chief executive officer of the Premier Soccer League, was dismissed from his post on Tuesday after a Board of Governors meeting held in Johannesburg. Ndhlela was suspended on December 1 for bringing football and the league into disrepute after he was arrested on charges of fraud […]
AVERAGES after the limited-overs series between South Africa and Australia. South Africa Batting & Fielding Name M Inns NO Runs HS Avg SR 100 50 Ct St MV Boucher 3 2 1 55 55* 55.00 58.51 0 1 9 0 AJ Hall 1 1 0 46 46 46.00 93.88 0 0 1 0 G Kirsten […]
PORTUGAL’S Antonio Pinto on Sunday dismantled the most impressive line-up ever fielded to win his third London marathon. Pinto upstaged the world-class field, including the world’s fastest marathon runner, Khalid Khannouchi, South Africa’s Olympic champion Josia Thugwane, defending titlist Abdelkader El Mouaziz, in 2:06.36 — a race record and fifth fastest marathon time ever recorded. […]
SOME 4.2 million South Africans — more than one in 10 — were HIV-positive at the end of last year, the health ministry estimated on Tuesday. That is an increase of 600000 on 1998. More than half the people infected with the Aids precursor are aged between 20 and 30, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang told […]