MPs, MPLs GET 13% RISE ORDINARY members of Parliament and members of provincial legislatures are to get a 13% salary increase, backdated to January 1, in terms of new salary packages for public representatives approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday. The new packages are based on the findings of the Steyn Commission on the Remuneration […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: KAIZER Chiefs registered their first win of the season when they beat AmaZulu 2-1 in a Premier Soccer League match at Kings Park Stadium in Durban on Tuesday night. For AmaZulu, it was the second defeat in a row. Chiefs opened the score through midfieder Isaac Kongoane in the 41st minute after he […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: BAFANA BAFANA defender Mark Fish became the most expensive South African player when he signed a four-year contract with the newly promoted English Premier League club Bolton Wanderers, for a transfer fee of about R19-million from Italian Serie A side Lazio on Tuesday. Fish first broke the South African transfer record last year […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: ANDRE JOUBERT is back in the Springbok team as a replacement for the injured Russel Bennett. Joubert was suprisingly overlooked when the team was announced to face Australia in a Tri-nations Test on Saturday. Springbok coach Carel du Plessis said it was an easy decision to call him back because he was on […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: MINING house Gold Fields of SA has posted a taxed profit for the year to June of R37-million, from R429-million the previous year, as the weak gold price and an extraordinary write-down as a result of problems at Northam Platinum took their toll. Gold Fields said that as the market price of Northam […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S Amanda Coetzer beat Linda Wild 6-1 6-2 in the first round of the $450 000 US women’s hard court championships at the International Tennis Centre at Stone Montain, Atlanta, USA on Monday. World number five Coetzer said this event will be a good test in preparation for this month’s US Open. […]
TUESDAY, 6.00PM SHARES on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange moved slightly higher in thin trade on Tuesday as Wall Street bounced back from Friday’s precipitous fall, with the only downside to the day the rand’s further losses against the dollar. At the close the all gold index had edged up 0,9 points to 1 017,6 on […]
WEDNESDAY, 5.00PM THE Rwandan genocide suspect employed by the Namibian Government as a doctor shows little understanding of medical practices. Dr Andre Rwamakuba, wanted in Rwanda for his involvement in the 1994 murder of hospital patients, has been sent for retraining at Katatura Hospital after a deluge of complaints from Gobabis, where he was first […]
WEDNESDAY, 4.00PM The violence around Kenya’s Indian Ocean port of Mombasa continued overnight on Tuesday when marauders burnt down a chief’s camp at Waa township and four houses at Ukunda near the Diani holiday resort south of Mombasa. Among the houses burnt was that of Diani’s Amiri Banda, the imam of the Masjid Jihad mosque, […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM SOUTH African gold production declined again in July, falling 4,5% to 39,81 tons from June’s 41,67 tons, according to latest figures from the Chamber of Mines. The fall continues a trend thast has seen gold production progressively decreasing over the past few years to the level where the United States is in a […]