FRENCH hotel group Accor on Tuesday signed a $5,84-million deal with Zimbabwe’s Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) at a ceremony sealing France’s largest single investment in the country since independence. Accor became the main shareholder in RTG, taking 35% of the group’s capital, sources involved in the deal said in Harare, where RTG owns the Sheraton, […]

NICOLE MORDANT, Pretoria | Thursday 3.15pm THE government said on Wednesday that it will lift the secrecy that characterised its arms industry during the apartheid era and plot a course for the now embattled sector. Known for its clandestine nature before the 1994 elections, SA’s arms supply and service industry will now have to become […]

ARRIVE Alive on Thursday put the death toll on South African roads since December 1 at 288. It said in a statement that the fatalities were caused in 189 accidents. The North West province reported the most deaths at 45, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 41 and the Eastern Cape with 39. Death tolls in the […]

INVESTIGATORS are probing the cause of a minor fire which broke out at Parliament on Tuesday. The fire started in a drum filled with sodium chlorite in a restoration room near Parliament’s main complex. The chemical ignited and triggered fire alarms, but it was quickly brought under control. The fire caused no damage and investigators […]

SOUTH African referees Andre Watson, Jonathan Kaplan, Mark Lawrence and Tappe Henning have been included in a panel of 34 referees chosen by the International Rugby Board on Tuesday for 2000. The panel, selected from a list of 60 names, includes the referees and touch judges for the 2000 Six Nations Championship, which starts in […]

SIERRA Leone will miss Wednesday’s deadline for disarming some 45000 civil war combatants but will consider new strategies to speed up the process, Information Minister Julius Spencer said. “This will not be accomplished due to delays and mistrust among parties involved in implementation of the peace process,” Spencer said on Tuesday. The July 7 peace […]

SOUTH Africa on Monday named a squad of 12 players for the third cricket Test against England at Kingsmead, Durban, over the Christmas holidays. All members of the side, who played to a draw in the second Test in Port Elizabeth have been retained, along with spinner Paul Adams. Boeta Wessels,official 12th man for the […]

MOFOLO Park in Soweto will soon boast a tartan athletics track after an International Amateur Athletic Federation grant of R18-million was secured by Johannesburg’s Southern Metropolitan Local Council. The track will comply with international stadards after it’s completion in December 2000.

PRIVATE companies in Zimbabwe have stepped in to raise finance for fuel imports to avert economic disaster as national supplies verge on drying up. The companies have raised $7-million for a further two-weeks’ fuel supply after the bankrupt National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (Noczim) said the country has a few days’ supply left. Noczim’s regular […]