THE United States will provide $300 million to owners of buildings destroyed by the bomb blast in Kenya’s capital Nairobi on August 7, 1998. The US says the grant will fund work on 60 buildings damaged by the bomb. The funds will be channelled through the US Agency for International Development. In January last year, […]

VIRGIN Atlantic Airways has been forced to suspend its heavily booked second weekly flight between Cape Town and London because of an appeal by British Airways (BA) to the British civil aviation authorities, according to the Business Report. Until the matter is resolved, the British civil aviation authorities have forbidden Virgin to introduce its second […]

VOLKSWAGAEN South Africa announced on Monday evening that it has closed its Uitenhage plant in the Eastern Cape indefinitely following a three-day strike by workers. Spokesman Matt Gennrich said it is impossible for the company to continue production without its workforce, especially when there are concerns of intimidation by a few employees. Workers embarked on […]

A STUDY released by the Commission on Gender Equality on Tuesday shows that women still earn less than men, continue to occupy female-stereotypical jobs and are not being trained to take up top management positions. This is despite laws aimed at ensuring equality in the workplace and in spite of the fact that more than […]

ZAMBIA has sold off 234 state-owned companies out of the 280 earmarked for privatisation in just under eight years, President Frederick Chiluba announced on Friday. The number represent almost 84% of the total number of parastatals that were intended to be sold off to private enterprises when the Chiluba admininstration embarked on a massive privatisation […]

ORGANISERS of ticket sales for African Nations Cup matches in northern Nigeria downed tools in Kano on Tuesday in protest at ongoing distribution problems. Just hours ahead of Tuesday’s match between Burkina Faso and Senegal, the Kano section of the event’s Nigerian organising committee told reporters they are pulling out in exasperation at the national […]

THe escape of 25 dangerous prisoners from police holding cells in northern KwaZulu Natal on Tuesday has prompted an urgent review of police holding facilities in the region. Provincial police commissioner Chris Serfontein has ordered all police stations with high escape rates to immediately compile reports explaining the phenomena. The first 17 prisoners escaped from […]

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Wednesday 2.30pm. World Boxing Organisation featherweight kingpin Naseem Hamed and International Boxing Federation (IBF) featherweight world champion; Paul Ingle are both seeking replacement challengers for their respective titles on March 11 in London. Vuyani Bungu, the current number one IBF contender has been mentioned as a possible for the Ingle fight. […]

A SPONSORSHIP deal worth R500000 from Harmony Gold Mining could see gold bars handed out on Comrades Marathon race day on June 16. Apart from producing the regular 20 gold medals for the first 10 men and women across the line, the company will also donate two gold bars of 20 ounces with an estimated […]

FORCES backing the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government have retaken the central city of Lodja, which has been held by rebels and their Rwandan allies for a year. The daily La Reference Plus reported on Wednesday that indiscipline within rebel troops stationed at Lodja had increased, mainly because they had not been paid. The […]