THURSDAY, 2.40PM: IT took 163 minutes for South Africa to dismiss Australia for 133 in 38 overs in their opening World Series limited overs cricket match at the SCG on Thursday. After being bowled out at 200 in exactly 50 overs, it looked as if the South Africans were goners, but veteran offspinner Pat Symcox […]

THURSDAY, 10.00AM BLACK empowerment group New Africa Investments Limited is aiming to take “unassailable control”of Metropolitan Life in the current financial year, Nail MD Jonty Sandler said on Wednesday. Stadler was speaking at the unveiling of Nail’s results for the year to end September. Nail increased headline earnings 47% to 27,48c a share, or R127-million. […]

WEDNESDAY, 3.30PM A SOUTH African Foreign Affairs Minister Alfred Nzo formally signed an international convention banning anti-personnel mines in Ottawa, Canada, on Wednesday. Nzo, who came under criticism last year for hedging over the landmine ban, has since become a convert, praising those who lobbied to make the landmine convention a reality. South Africa was […]

WEDNESDAY, 10.00AM The aggressive new Internet services company M-Web has bought out the service provider PiX Internet, giving it the country’s second largest dial-up customer base less than six months after its launch. M-Web’s chief executive officer Antonie Roux says that the deal, for an undisclosed price, reflects a growing trend towards consolidation in the […]

WEDNESDAY, 10.00AM: WINE and spirits co-operative KWV on Tuesday formally converted itself to a company after 80 years as a co-operative. The co-operative, which also acted as a state-appointed regulator of the industry, first made a high court application for the conversion last December 12, but this was opposed by Land Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom, […]

WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM: SOUTH African golf hero and US Open champion Ernie Els dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he dednounced his position as favourite to win the Nedbank Million Dollar Golf Challenge, which starts at Sun City this weeekend. Els said the Gary Player Country Club course does not suit his game, and named his […]

WEDNESDAY, 10.30PM THOUSANDS of Malawians converged on the capital, Lilongwe on Wednesday to bury the country’s founding father and former dictator Hastings Kamuzu Banda, who died last week aged 99. The five-hour funeral started in the grounds of State House with a speech by President Bakili Maluzi, followed by a religious ceremony attended by African […]

ROBBERS ATTACK AIRPORT ABOUT 15 robbers armed with AK47 automatic rifles and revolvers broke into a security company’s control room at Johannesburg International Airport in the early hours of Wednesday morning, assaulted the guards — injuring three of them — and stole 37 firearms. BOESAK MUST PAY HIS OWN WAY ALAN BOESAK has lost his […]

WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM DEPARTMENT of Agriculture director-general Bongiwe Njobe-Mbuli says farmers continue to plant crops unsuited to drought areas — such as maize — in response to consumer demand. The only solution, she told a drought workshop in Pretoria on Wednesday, will be to work on changing the public’s eating habits. Njobe-Mbuli called on farmers to […]

WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM: BRAZIL’s multi-million dollar soccer superstar Ronaldo will definitely be in the squad to face Bafana Bafana in a World Cup warm-up match at FNB stadium on Sunday. SA coach Clive Barker took hios squad through their paces in a practice session at Rand Stadium on Tuesday, confident that the national squad has what […]