Justin Arenstein Ousted Mpumalanga MEC for Local Government and Traffic Fish Mahlalela was axed just hours before he was scheduled to hand evidence implicating senior provincial African National Congress leaders in tender fraud to National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka. The evidence included documents and audio tapes allegedly proving that ANC provincial treasurer Jerry […]
World culture converges on Benoni as Womad endeavours to make a profit this year Nashen Moodley The task of bringing a world music festival, even if it is the most significant travelling festival of its kind, to a country that is severely underexposed to world music is an unenviable one. Despite fighting what many saw […]
ABSA, SA’s largest bank by assets, acquired a controlling 70% stake in Tanzania’s largest commercial bank, the National Bank of Commerce, on Friday, Absa said in a statement. The stake will cost R121-million and the deal, which forms part of the Tanzanian government’s goal of financial sector reform, becomes effective from April 1. Absa is […]
Ellerines Furnishers have announced that they, along with TV Africa, will be sponsoring boxing tournaments in neighbouring countries; Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia and Botswana. This follows an initiative by Stan Christodoulou, former Executive Director of the national boxing commission to help develop professional boxing in Africa. The first tournament takes place in Swaziland on April 8. […]
TWO amateur French archeologists aroused the envy of their peers Thursday after finding rooms and corridors in a 4600 year-old Egyptian pyramid that give new clues to pyramid building techniques. Jean-Yves Verd’hurt, a 60-year-old real estate manager, and Gilles Dormion, 55, a draftsman in an architect’s office, said they found rooms with stepped walls inside […]
ANGLO American Platinum Corporation (Amplats) and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) are in talks to end a dispute at the firm’s Rustenburg precious metals refinery. Some 120 NUM members at the plant have downed tools since the end of February over wages and working conditions. “The 8% wage offer is final … There will […]
UGANDAN police said on Friday they had held a second person for questioning, following the deaths of close to 800 followers of a doomsday cult. Joseph Ssettuba Ssemande, alias “The Bishop” was arrested on Thursday in Kijjumba village in the southwestern Rakai district, deputy police spokesman John Kimera said. On Thursday, police said that had […]
IN a remarkable upset of the form book unheralded Steve Basson shot a five-under par total of 66 to share a one shot lead with Vodacom Tour veteran Andre Cruse in the first round of the FNB Botswana Open at the Gaborone Sun on Thursday. The 21-year-old professional, in only his second season on tour, […]
CHEMICAL and biological warfare mastermind Wouter Basson had his trial postponed on Friday to May 2 in the Pretoria High Court. State advocate Anton Ackerman has indicated that he might bring an application requesting that certain evidence be heard overseas. The 61 charges Basson is facing include murder, fraud, theft and drug peddling.
SOUTH Africa’s 2006 World Cup Bid Committee has returned from Mali full of confidence after their latest meetings with a FIFA executive committee member. The delegation, headed by South Africa 2006 World Cup Bid Committee chief executive officer Danny Jordaan and South African Football Association president Molefi Oliphant football also met with federation executives and […]