TUESDAY, 11.00AM: SEVERAL star members of the Springbok rugby Test team are injured, and some of them may miss the rest of the series against the British Lions. James Small is the latest in a string of players who look to be non-starters in the upcoming second Test match against the Lions in Durban on […]
TUESDAY, 4.00PM THE Organisation of African Unity on Monday appealed to the United Nations Security Council to speed up the deployment of an inter-African Force in Brazzaville, the capital of Congo, where fighting resumed on Monday, ending a week-long ceasefire. In a communique issued in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa at the end of the […]
TUESDAY, 10.30AM BRITISH Airways, which has confirmed its interest in buying a strategic equity stake in SA Airways, on Monday spelled out its terms for any deal, suggesting that it might be opposed to certain black empowerment groups or unions being shareholders. BA director Sir Robin Renwick said yesterday BA will not make an offer […]
TUESDAY, 2.30PM THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission said on Tuesday it hopes to subpoena Winnie Madikizela Mandela to testify before a closed hearing of the commission within a month. TRC investigative unit head Dumisa Ntsebeza refused to confirm a report, in Business Day this morning, that the commission had been given a map showing the […]
TUESDAY, 3.30PM FORMER Free State MEC Ace Magashule has received the go-ahead to take up his seat in the National Assembly when Parliament reconvenes in August. Magashule was at the centre of last year’s bitter power struggle in the Free State government, which led to the removal of premier Patrick “Terror” Lekota to be redeployed […]
MONDAY, 6.30PM GOLD shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange rose and fell with the bullion price on Monday, before closing 12,3 points down at 1 015,1 as bullion fell to a new four-year low of $336,95/oz. Bullion’s fall from grace has been ascribed, among other things, to the delinking of the platinum price from the […]
MONDAY, 12.00NOON: AFRICAN soccer at the weekend offered a string of African Nations Cup surprises, including wins by underdogs Namibia, Angola and Malawi, and Cameroon’s draw with Gabon. Namibia beat soccer-giants Kenya 1-0 in their Group Five African Nations cup qualifier match in Nairobi on Saturday. Namibia, who beat Liberia 2-1 in a World Cup […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM The much-touted possibility of a merger between local mining house Johannesburg Consolidated Investments and multinational Lonrho was toned down a few notches on Monday by Lonrho CEO Nick Morrell’s announcement that talks on a possible merger are at a “preliminary stage”, despite market speculation that the a deal was imminent. Presenting the group’s […]
TUESDAY, 2.00PM The nationawide road blockade between 6.00AM and 9.00AM on Tuesday appears to have been a flop, with very few motorists taking part and isolated reports of blocked roads. The organisers, the SA Guild of Motoring Journalists, nonetheless claimed success. Guild president Patrick O’Leary said: “Contrary to us inhibiting people’s movement, they gave us […]
MOBUTU AIDES FACE ARREST THE Kabila government in Kinshasa will crack down on fraud and corruption among officials in the ousted Mobutu regime, suspending the chiefs of state-owned companies and arresting those party officials who have not fled the country. MINE MURDER PROBE THE North-West Province department of safety and security is to set up […]