THE luxury Blue Trains are to be sold as they need international expertise and a high level of marketing required to keep them running. Spoornet CE Zandile Jakavula said that the two trains have been identified by Spoornet as assets that need international management to maintain their high profile. The 18-wagon Blue Trains travel between […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00am. THE Assets Forfeiture Unit threatened over the weekend to clamp down on “gentlemen’s clubs” across the country, if they don’t clean up their act. The warning follows a raid on a high-class Gauteng brothel, The Ranch, which has been provisionally attached. It is now being managed by a curator, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Accra | Sunday 6.30pm. FORMER champions Cameroon survived a nervous finish to defeat Algeria 2-1 in Accra on Sunday in the first quarter-final of the African Nations Cup. Early goals from Samuel Eto’o and Marc-Vivien Foe put the 1984 and 1988 winners in command only to relinquish the initiative in the second half […]

SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Monday 3.00pm STANDARD Bank Investment Corporation (Stanbic) on Monday lost its high court bid to have its proposed acquisition by smaller rival Nedcor adjudicated by the Competition Commission. Pretoria High Court Acting Judge Nico Coetzee ruled that the minister of finance has the final say about the proposed the hostile […]

EGYPT’S attempt to retain the African Nations Cup received a terrible blow when star striker Hazem Emam was ruled out of the tournament with an ankle injury. Emam hurt himself in a crunching tackle with Abdel Aziz Ayman during training at the Kano Pillars’ stadium and was rushed to hospital on Saturday evening. Egypt coach […]

GOLD mining giant Gold Fields reported higher quarterly profits on the back of a stronger gold price and confirmed it is eyeing neighbouring gold miner Western Areas. Gold Fields also forecast a strong second half to the financial year, including a higher dividend payout for shareholders. Western Areas management said on Wednesday the company’s future […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.20am PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki on Sunday denied confrontation is looming with the African National Congress and its ruling labour and communist allies over his tough macro-economic strategies. In a setback for the Congress of South African Trade Unions and a boost for employers, Mbeki said in his State of the […]

DIVERS searching coastal waters off Cote d’Ivoire have retrieved one of the black box recorders from a Kenya Airways plane that crashed and killed 169 people. Members of Abidjan’s diving club pulled one of the black boxes from the water on Friday morning and also said they had seen bodies among the fuselage and debris. […]

LANCE Klusener on Wednesday became the second fastest player to achieve the double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in one-day internationals when he trapped Zimbabwe’s Murray Goodwin lbw. Klusener, playing his 70th one-day international, took one for 45 to claim his 100th wicket. His unbeaten 65 earlier in the match took his run tally […]