THE salaries of magistrates and judges will be increased by an average of 14% with effect from July 1999, Justice Minister Penuell Maduna said in Pretoria on Tuesday. Magistrates will receive a monthly boost of 8%, while judges’ salaries will increase by 6%.

SRI Lanka A won the toss and elected to bat in their limited overs one-day cricket match against South Africa A in Chatsworth in Durban on Wednesday.

THE Cape High Court on Tuesday reserved judgment in a bid by Sprockets Productions Limited, trading as Deadtime, to liquidate Midi Television, the owner of e-tv. Judge D van Reenen said he will try to deliver judgment early next week. Midi TV is defending an application by production company Sprockets to have it provisionally liquidated […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.00pm. MICHAEL Vaughan and Chris Adams are certain to make their Test debuts for England when they take on South Africa at the Wanderers on Thursday. Although a final decision will not be made until the captain Nasser Hussain has a look at the pitch in the morning, Gavin Hamilton […]

THE trial of Thomas Florin, a German citizen accused of the grisly murder of his wife, is due to start in the Nambian coastal town of Swakopmund on Wednesday. Florin, a one-time chef, stands accused of bludgeoning his wife, Monika to death at their Swakopmund home last year. He then allegedly dismembered her body by […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.15am SHARES in OpenTV, a subsidiary of television platform operator MIH Holdings’ international subsidiary MIH Limited (MIHL), made major gains following its listing on the Amsterdam and Nasdaq stock exchanges on Tuesday with a successful private placing by the group of 7,5-million shares at $20 per share. OpenTV’s share price […]

SWEDISH Prime Minister Goeran Persson arrived in South Africa on Sunday for an eight-day tour, also including Mozambique, aimed at rejuvenating Sweden’s business presence in the region, the foreign ministry said. Persson was due to meet Deputy President Jacob Zuma for bilateral talks later on Sunday before being the guest of honour at a dinner […]

SOUTH African Defense Minister Patrick Lekota arrived in the Qatari capital, Doha, on Friday for a two-day official visit. Qatar and South Africa signed an accord on air links in June. Last year, the South African company Sasol agreed to work with the state-owned Qatar General Petroleum Corporation and Phillips Petroleum of the United States […]

LEGENDARY African footballer Roger Milla, whose four goals helped propel Cameroon to the 1990 World Cup quarter-fianls, has been voted Africa’s Footballer of the Century, by African Soccer magazine. The London-based monthly made it’s choice from a pool of the continent’s top football coaches, players and experts. And it was the name of 47-year-old Milla […]