GOLD shares streaked to near 30-month peaks on Monday, finding fresh favour with investment funds as the gold price continued to rebound. By 11.20am Johannesburg’s all gold index, which includes the world’s top two bullion miners, had leapt 72,3 points or 5,59% to 1366.4, just eight points shy of two-and-half-year high scaled last Tuesday on […]
FORMER MP and opposition leader Sir De Villiers Graaff (85) died on his farm De Grendel outside Cape Town on Monday afternoon. Graaff, who was leader of the opposition United Party for 27 years, died after a short illness. Graaff became leader of the United Party in 1956 and held the position until 1977 when […]
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URUGUAY recorded their first ever victory in the World Cup finals as the South Americans beat Spain 27-15 in the ‘battle of the amateurs’ Pool A match here on Saturday. Two late breakaway tries by full-back Alfonso Cardoso and substitute Juan Mancheca sealed the win in a tight match against an enterprising but lightweight Spanish […]
THREE gunmen hijacked MP and chairman of the Correctional Services parliamentary portfolio committee, Aubrey Mokoena, outside his Orlando East home in Soweto on Friday night. It was the second attack this week on a Portfolio Committee head in Soweto, during a 48-hour time frame, and both men drove the same make of vehicle. Mokoena stopped […]
JOHANNESBURG police were on Sunday still searching for a Norwegian businessman who went missing last Monday. He was last seen when he had breakfast at a hotel near Johannesburg International Airport. Superintendent Chris Wilken said Kjetil Moe, (65) arrived in South Africa on September 24 on a business trip. He was due to leave on […]
MATRIC exams in the Northern Province begin on Tuesday, with a big failure rate looming after disastrous mid-year trials. In the June trials, only 11% of pupils passed. Education MEC Edgar Mushwana has attributed the high failure rate to the fact that most teachers had not completed their syllabuses by June. Officials on Friday said […]
DYNAMIC hooker Keith Wood led the way with four tries as Ireland swamped the United States 53-8 in the opening World Cup Pool E match for both teams at Lansdowne Road on Saturday night. The fiery Irish had too much pace, too much poise and too much power for their largely part-time opponents and Wood […]
AN unidentified driver shot himself in the head with an AK 47 rifle after shooting at policemen who stopped him following an accident in another town. Bushveld police spokesman Captain Blackie Swart, who reported the incident on Monday, said the man shot himself at about 11am on Saturday. Police stopped him at Nylstroom for allegedly […]
ANDY COLQUHOUN, Edinburgh | Monday 4.00pm. DAY off on Monday and time to reflect on a job well done for the Springboks. Mallet and Honiball leading their four-ball at the halfway house as 12 players and staff headed to St Andrews while the rest stayed back in Edinburgh for a little city R&R. The game’s […]