WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM: ANGLO American Platinum Corporation (Amplats) reported a 9,5% drop in taxed income for the year to June as last year’s crippling strike at Rustenburg Platinum Holdings led to losses at the group’s main revenue earner. The group also took a knock from increased costs at Lebowa Platinum Mines and Potgietersrust Platinum Mines. The […]
MONDAY, 4.30PM EBRAHIM SATARDIEN, the man accused of murdering People Against Gangsterism and Drugs national secretary Ebrahim Khan was on Tuesday granted R10 000 bail in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court. Pagad members were noticeable by their absence from the hearing, after packing the court and hurling abuse at the accused during previous hearings. Khan was […]
MONDAY, 8.00AM: COMMUNICATIONS minister Jay Naidoo has announced a committee of “stakeholders” to advise him on broadcasting issues ranging from foreign ownership to the effects of competition on the SABC to Internet and satellite policies and the need for a school of broadcast journalism The part-time committee will be chaired by University of the North […]
TUESDAY, 3.30PM UNITED Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan will not meet President Nelson Mandela on Friday, the president’s office said on Tuesday. Mandela’s office announced the meeting on Monday and Mandela confirmed it on Tuesday, despite a denial issued on Monday night by the United Nations. Mandela’s spokesman Parks Mankahlana said that in telephonic discussions with […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: SPRINGBOK rugby coach Carel du Plessis has announced four positional changes to the team to face New Zealand in a Tri-Nations match on Saturday. James Small and Henry Honiball return to the backline, and James Dalton and Marius Hurter are back in the pack. Joe Gillingham, who replaces injured Dannie van Schalkwyk, will […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: LLEWELLYN HERBERT became the first South African to win a world championship athletics medal on Monday night when he finished second in the 400m hurdles final at the World Athletics Championships in Athens. Herbert clocked in a time of 47,86sec behind the champion Stephane Diagana’s 47,72sec. Herbert drew the unfavourable lane 1, which […]
TUESDAY, 3.30PM A FORMER KwaZulu policeman, Gcina Brian Mkhize, 21, on Tuesday became the first of the “Caprivi 200”, Inkatha members given paramilitary training by the SA Defence Force in the 1980s, to testify before the truth commission. Mkhize’s testimony was delayed since Monday following attempts by the National Party and former SADF chief General […]
TUESDAY, 10.30AM: TRANSNET, the parastatal transport holding company has managed to curtail its loss for the year to March 31 to R170-million, from R253-million the previous year, largely due to a leap in profit at rail subsidiary Spoornet and reductions in labour costs. Transnet MD Saki Macozoma said the group had “done well” to increase […]
TUESDAY, 10.30AM: SOUTH African Football Association CEO Danny Jordaan on Monday said Namibia has confirmed its participation in this year’s Four Nations Cup. Jordaan said the tournament is alive and will take place at venues where it will not interrupt the League’s programme. He said the first two matches are likely to be played in […]
TUESDAY, 8.30AM THE R28,63-million Tollgate fraud trial began yesterday, the much-delayed probe into one of South Africa’s biggest corporate collapses. In the dock was only one of the three alleged co-conspirators, former director Mervyn Key. Tollgate chairman Julian Askin and his colleague Lawrie Macinkintosh have both fled to the UK. Key is accused of “thievery […]