BUSINESS FORMS AIDS COUNCIL LEADING SA companies have joined forces to launch the SA National Business Council on HIV/Aids. A statement issued by Southern Life on Thursday said said the council, to be chaired by Metropolitan Life chairman Dr Nthato Motlana, was created in conjuction with the health department, Medical Association of SA, and the […]

FARM MURDER TOLL RISES TEN farmers have been murdered this month alone, and another eight have been injured in attacks. In the latest attack, Newcastle farmers Nicholas and Magda Marais were strangled, then shot dead. The far-right Boere Weerstandbweeeging announced on Wednesday that its military wing would go to war in defence of white farmers, […]

WEDNESDAY, 4.30PM SOMALI warlords meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo have agreed to sety up an interim government in their strife-torn country and are expected to sign a formal pact later this week, participants in the discussion said. Somalia has not had a government in six years, and has since been ruled by regional warlords […]

TUESDAY, 7.00PM: THIRD-quarter gross domestic product figures published on Tuesday by the Central Statistical Service show that despite wild swings from quarter to quarter, the real GDP for the first nine months of the year nonetheless increased by 1,8% compared to the same period the previous year. Annualised quarterly growth rates have fluctuated widely this […]

MONDAY, 2.30PM PUBLIC Protector Selby Baqwa has found that Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma’s department made grossly exaggerated and misleading claims to Parliament earlier this year about the relative expense of medicines in South Africa. However, Baqwa did not go as far as to make a finding of improper conduct, and noted that the profits of […]

TUESDAY, 10.30AM: A former employee of mining group Gencor is being sued by his erstwhile employer for breach of contract after he allegedly worked as an informer for the Receiver of Revenue, for which he apparently received R600 000. In court papers, Gencor alleges that former tax manager Paul O’Donoghue was a paid informer for […]

TUESDAY, 7.00PM GENCOR and Gold Fields of SA on Tuesday announced detailed terms of their merger into a single giant gold mining company, Goldco. The announcement follows last-minute attempts by rival mining house Anglo American to scupper the deal by blocking the use of Driefontein mine as the vehicle for the merger. The two companies […]

TUESDAY, 10.00AM: ANGLO American Gold Corporation is expected to announce on Tuesday that it will use its Vaal Reefs mine as the vehicle for its proposed restructuring. Anglogold’s restructuring plan involves moving all its gold mining assets into a single listed entity in a bid to simplify corporate structure and clarify lines of control, as […]

TUESDAY, 11.30AM: ANDREW AITKEN, who replaces injured Johan Erasmus in the Springbok squad to play against England in Saturday’s Test at Twickenham, is the only change in the team. Bobby Skinstad will take Aitken’s place on the reserve bench and Free State’s Willie Meyer takes over from Dawie Theron as the reserve prop. Meyer was […]

TUESDAY, 11.30AM: SOUTH AFRICA has won a tug of war with Italian Serie A club Bari over striker Phil Masinga. South Africa demanded the release of the striker in time for the Confederation Cup in Saudi Arabia from December 12-21. The world controlling body Fifa requires teams to release international players a week before a […]