AN animal welfare group on Friday expressed concern over the plight of more than a hundred animals destined for China after a blue wildebeest died in a crate at the Johannesburg International Airport on Thursday night. Rick Allan, wildlife manager for the National Council of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA), […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 10.30am. SPORTS Minister Ngconde Balfour has given the South African Football Association an ultimatum to sort out its ongoing sagas and get it’s house in order or the government will intervene. “If Safa fails to put in place systems within this period to clean up football, government will step in, […]

ABOUT 2400 Angolans — mostly children, women and elderly people — have fled to northern Namibia over the last 15 days to escape fighting between Angolan government forces and UNITA rebels, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Friday. Many of the refugees are arriving in Namibia’s Kavango region in […]

Former president Nelson Mandela on Friday flew to Tanzania to pay his respects to the Nyerere family following the death of former president Julius Nyerere on October 14.

THE draw for the first round of the Castle Cup Southern Africa championship have been made: Mar 4 – Zimbabwe v Lesotho Mar 18 – Zambia v Botswana Apr 1 – South Africa v Mauritius Apr 15 – Malawi v Mozambique Byes: Angola (holders), Namibia, Swaziland 26

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 9.00am. STANDARD Bank Investment Corporation (Stanbic) remained defiant to a hostile takeover bid by Nedcor on Thursday, while revealing that Nedcor offered a far better deal to the bank in September last year. Stanbic CE Jacko Maree said on Thursday Nedcor suggested a swap ratio of 4,35 Stanbic shares for […]

SWEDISH truck and bus maker Scania said on Friday it has won an order for 340 South African buses worth about $38-million. The deal between Scania’s South African subsidiary Scania South Africa and Great North Transport of South Africa was signed in a ceremony in Johannesburg as part of a Sweden-South Africa partnership week. Scania, […]

ONE of the bidders for the third mobile phone licence said on Wednesday it fears the announcement of the winner could be snagged by a probe into alleged corruption at telecoms watchdog the South Africa Telecommunications Regulatory Authority. Dutch-registered Mobile Systems International Cellular Investments Holdings (MSI) said the delay could hit the business plans of […]

LOCAL retailers, damaged by the country’s recent economic woes, will get a boost from interest rate cuts, subdued inflation and upbeat consumer spending ahead of the millennium, analysts said on Friday. They said the retail sector’s pre-Christmas rebound is expected to take root despite the Reserve Bank’s move this week to put breaks on easing […]

FOUR people were killed early on Friday when a private plane crashed shortly after take-off from Nairobi’s international airport, state radio reported. Three people died instantly when the plane, operated by Aircraft Leasing Company, crashed shortly after taking off from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for Dar es Salaam at 0245 GMT. The pilot, reportedly Danish, […]