OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 3.00pm CONSUMER prices rose by more than expected in January, prompting a small sell-off in the government bond market and weakness in the rand. The consumer price index rose by 2,6% year-on-year in the first month of 2000, from 2,2% in December, against a consensus forecast for a 2,3% climb, […]

TWO women have lodged complaints of sexual harassment against one of Parliament’s senior managers. Frene Ginwala, the Speaker of Parliament, said on Tuesday that the women had been assured that they would be protected, and the case was under investigation. Media reports that several women had been abused by the manager, but were afraid to […]

A SECURITY official, suspected of raping a 24-year-old museum worker on Robben Island, was been found dead in Riviersonderend in the Western Cape, police reported. The man was found hanging from a tree on a farm on Thursday. The information, however, was only made public on Tuesday. A yellow tow-rope was tied around his neck […]

AGGRESSIVE young orphaned elephants have killed 36 rhinoceroses, including rare black ones, in Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park in eastern South Africa. The elephants were orphaned when their parents were culled in South Africa’s Kruger National Park in the early 1990s in a bid to control the elephant population there. According to conservationists, the young elephants have been […]

CANADIAN gold miner Placer Dome Inc said on Monday it would likely buy out joint venture partner Western Areas Ltd if the South African company sold its 50 percent stake in their gold mine. “If the Western Areas stake becomes available the likelihood is very good that Placer will buy it,” Patrick Evans, the joint […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 11.30pm. SUPERB fast bowling by Shaun Pollock enabled South Africa to turn potential defeat into a stunning 38-run victory over England in the triangular series final on Sunday. Pollock, named man-of-the series and man-of-the-match, took five for 20 as England fell for 111; after South Africa, deep in trouble at […]

FIVE men are believed to have drowned while trying to cross swollen rivers in on Sunday, police said, bringing to 48 the number of lives lost in floods in the country in the past week. Two of the victims were swept off a bridge over the Nkondlo River in Eastern Cape. The other three are […]

CONSTRUCTION group Stocks and Stocks said on Monday that it was in talks to sell its building business to an unnamed consortium led by RMB Ventures Ltd. The building and construction group gave no further details, but said in a statement that various other prosposals were still being considered for its further restructuring.

SWAZILAND’s defence force has flatly refused to share its communications tower with the country’s only cellphone network provider, MTN. The defence force fears the cellphone company might gain access to army secrets. MTN wanted to use the tower in the remote town of Siteki to extend its coverage into the south-western rural areas. But army […]

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Monday 11.15am. JAN Bergman was knocked out in the fourth round of his International Boxing Federation junior welterweight world title fight on Saturday in Connecticut. He was dropped twice in the first round by the big hitting Zab Judah, but managed to come back and drop the American in the second. […]