The share price of gaming and hospitality group Peermont Global jumped 4,26% or 30 cents in early trade on Friday after the group revealed it had made it to the next stage in the process of selecting a successful candidate to introduce and operate the first casinos in Singapore.
Claims of South Africa being a mecca for organised crime are based on speculation, the police’s head statistician said on Thursday. Measuring the contribution of organised crime to the country’s general crime statistics is a near-impossible feat, said assistant commissioner Chris de Kock.
Children want to see more drama on television, they are interested in news and current affairs and watch television at times when only soap operas are broadcast. These are some of the findings from a study called What Children Want, conducted by the Media Monitoring Project in South Africa.
After an outbreak of African horse sickness in KwaZulu-Natal, horses may not be moved into or out of the province, the provincial agriculture department announced on Thursday. ”The outbreak is concentrated in the Midlands right up to northern KwaZulu-Natal,” said the department’s spokesperson Vusi Zuma.
Liberation struggle veteran and company director Paul Langa has been appointed as new head of the Robben Island Museum. Langa, who studied political science at the University of the Witwatersrand before leaving the country to join Umkhonto weSizwe, served a 14-year sentence on Robben Island.
Temper tantrums by lion murder accused Mark Scott-Crossley during his trial in Phalaborwa Circuit Court should not be held against him in deliberations on the evidence presented during his trial, his counsel, Johann Engelbrecht SC, argued on Thursday. He said Scott-Crossley’s outbursts have to be excluded from deliberations.
The ministry of sport and recreation on Thursday called on the South African Rugby Union to clarify the decision of awarding the fifth Super 14 franchise.
A resolution was passed by the president’s council on April 15 to award Central Unions the new franchise, rather that the government-backed South-Eastern Cape region.
Relegation candidates Manning Rangers and Wits University shared the spoils when they played to a goalless draw in a Castle Premiership encounter at Chatsworth Stadium on Wednesday night. The home side should have won this game in the first half, but were let down by their strikers.
The Titans won through to a home final in the Standard Bank Pro20 cricket competition when they snatched a thrilling victory over the Lions at Supersport Park in Centurion on Wednesday. They beat the Lions by four wickets with one ball to spare in front of a capacity crowd of 11 000 in the first semifinal.
Described as staunch by some and rigid by others, the appointment of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope was mostly welcomed in South Africa on Wednesday. Political leaders and church groups hailed his selection, as Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu expressed disappointment.
Free State Premier Beatrice Marshoff has demoted another provincial minister, the provincial government communications and information system said on Wednesday. Local government and housing minister Bennie Kotsoane will return to the provincial legislature as an ordinary member.
Following two days of consultation with its counsel, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Wednesday decided to serve gold-miner Harmony Gold with papers to the effect that the company should stop its current process of laying off workers. The union said the papers will be served on the company on Wednesday evening.
A large trade deficit is necessary if the South African economy is to grow sufficiently, an economist said on Wednesday. ”The trade deficit will be substantial as we import a lot of large capital items. We have to get used to a big trade deficit in South Africa,” Stanlib economist Kevin Lings told reporters in Johannesburg.
The Credit Bureau Association has come out in support of a regulatory framework for credit bureaux, saying on Wednesday that it is working with the government on the matter. Last week, some credit bureaux accused the government of wanting to abolish them, saying the draft National Credit Bill’s aims are ”totally unrealistic”.
A police officer tricked two farmworkers into revealing all they knew about the murder of a fellow worker, who was fed to lions after being assaulted, the Phalaborwa Circuit Court heard on Wednesday, the second day of closing arguments by the state and defence.
South Africa is backing former Zimbabwean finance minister Simba Makoni in the upcoming election of the new president of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), the multilateral development finance agency focusing on the African continent, the AfDB said on Wednesday.
The Cape High Court has ruled that political parties in South Africa should not, as a matter of principle, be compelled to disclose details of private donations made to their coffers. In a landmark ruling by Judge BM Griesel on Wednesday, he dismissed the application by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa.
Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide charged on Tuesday that the United States and France are orchestrating a ”black holocaust” in Haiti that has killed more than 10Â 000 of his supporters since he was ousted last year. Speaking to reporters in Pretoria, Aristide said he remains the democratically elected president of Haiti.
Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu may need further cancer treatment, a statement issued on his behalf said on Tuesday. ”I am fit and healthy at present and my doctors will monitor my condition closely. They may need to introduce further treatment in the future,” the cleric said in the statement.
Mining group Kumba Resources has agreed to limit its retrenchments to 100 people from the 400 people that it previously planned to retrench, a Solidarity spokesperson said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Harmony Gold has started retrenching National Union of Mineworkers members at five of its operations in the Free State.
Minister of Social Development Zola Skweyiya expressed shock on Tuesday over allegations that substandard quality food hampers are being distributed in the Northern Cape. ”These allegations came as a shock and I have ordered the department to investigate with a sense of extreme urgency,” he said in a statement.
An HIV/Aids housing policy launched by the Department of Housing in Pretoria on Tuesday is meant to assist those with the illness and the families and people around them affected by it. With 15% of the Gauteng population HIV-positive, the provincial housing department said it is critical to form a housing-sector response to HIV/Aids.
When the murder trial of two men accused of throwing a fellow worker to lions resumes in the Phalaborwa Circuit Court on Tuesday, the speaker of the Limpopo legislature will attend. Limpopo speaker Tshenuani Farisani and his office manager, Dick Ralushayi, will take their seats immediately behind the dock.
The touring France hockey side suffered a close 3-2 loss to a pumped-up South Africa Under-21 side at Xerox Park in East London on Monday. But don’t read too much into the result of the match — the first of three warm-up games for the tourists before playing the senior South African team in two Tests at the weekend.
Don’t judge the tour by the results — it was more successful than the results imply. That was the plea from the former captain of the Spar South African women’s hockey team on Tuesday, when the team arrived home from a four-Test series against Argentina in Buenos Aires. ”It was actually a very successful tour,” said Carlisle.
The wide-ranging black economic empowerment (BEE) transactions unveiled on Tuesday by Old Mutual involving the sale of an overall 12,75% stake in its South African operations to BEE participants will be the "full arrangements" that will be made by the group in terms of BEE ownership.
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The new chief executive of arms manufacturer Denel, Shaun Liebenberg, will hold talks with labour unions on various issues within the next two months, trade union Solidarity said on Monday. Liebenberg also said he is planning to visit the near-bankrupt arms manufacturer’s subsidiaries within the next four to five weeks.
Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) on Monday announced that it will invest R750-million in a new, state-of-the-art paint shop in Uitenhage. Addressing the media, VWSA MD Andreas Tostmann said construction of the facility will start in May and is anticipated to be completed and fully operational in the first half of 2007.
Listed supermarket group Pick ‘n Pay is expected to report a 21% increase in its headline earnings per share for the year to the end of February this year, to 135 cents from 111,6 cents the previous year, when it announces its final results on Tuesday morning, according to a consensus of seven investment analysts.
South African Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sue van der Merwe on Monday officially congratulated Zimbabwe on its 25th year of independence from Britain, praising it for its role in fighting apartheid. She did not mention the concerns of Zimbabwe’s official opposition about the fairness and freeness of the March parliamentary election.
A task team has been set up to find — within two months — ways to speed up the provision of classrooms, the education and public works departments said on Monday. The team will report by June with concrete plans to end the practice of teaching children outdoors, Minister of Education Naledi Pandor told reporters in Pretoria.