ANGOLA issued a revalued currency on Monday, lopping six zeroes off the kwanza in a bid to control inflation and shed the number of bank notes required for transactions. The current notes, the readjusted kwanza, trade at around 5,5-million to the US dollar. The new rate will be 5,5 kwanza to the dollar. The resumption […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Monday 7.00pm. WICKET KEEPER Mark Boucher had most to gain when his captain Hansie Cronje chose to prolong the second test against England on Monday despite a positive result looking almost impossible. Boucher had 99 test dismissals when the captains first had the opportunity to call the match off half […]

MALAWI and Rwanda drew 1-1 in Blantyre on Monday in a friendly match intended to prepare the teams for World Cup qualifiers next year. The two countries also drew 1-1 on Saturday in Lilongwe. Rwanda meet Cote d’Ivoire and Malawi play Kenya during April in two-leg World Cup ties.

THE National Union of Mineworkers on Monday called on the government to suspend the liquidators of East Rand Proprietary Mines and launch a full investigation into their activities, according to the Business Report. ERPM was placed in liquidation in July this year. Last week it was sold to a black-owned mining company, Khumo Bathong. NUM […]

SUDANESE President Omar al-Beshir said order and calm reigned in Khartoum on Monday after he declared a state of emergency and dissolved parliament ahead of a vote to curb his powers. Beshir declared a three-month emergency late on Sunday and announced the dissolution of parliament, which was two days away from debating curbs on presidential […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.00pm. THE Standard Bank said on Monday it has served papers on Infiniti Technologies to inform the company that it is seeking its liquidation. Infiniti, a black empowerment information technology services firm, said last week that one of its units had been placed into provisional liquidation, a move which prompted […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT , Johannesburg | Monday 7.15pm. TAXI ranks in Soshanguve are running smoothly and without incident after being re-opened on Sunday afternoon. The ranks were closed for two months in an attempt to put an end to taxi violence. Police spokesman Superintendent Roy Govender said taxi associations west of Pretoria and in the North […]

INTERNET service provider M-Web has announced that it is on track to break the 200000 subscriber mark before Christmas. M-Web said on Friday that the recent deal with ITI (which saw M-Web take on subscriber management services for ITI’s Club Internet subscribers) has contributed to additional growth, as has the acquisition of Cyberhost’s subscriber base […]

RESIDENTS of Thohoyandou in the former Venda homeland are preparing for a black Christmas and new millennium, with no Christmas lights, no street lights and no traffic lights. Eskom has cut off electricity to the town because of a dispute with the town council over the payment of a R1,8-million bill. The last time street […]