SOUTH Africa’s Oscar Chalupsky won the 10km Kala Kukea memorial race at Hawaii Kai at the weekend. With the World Ocean Kayak Championships on May 28, it sets the Duzi star up well. “This was a very good warm up race for next week’s world champs and it gave a good indication of my speed,” […]
FORMER Ghanaian football captain Abedi Pele and fellow ex-international Tony Yeboah have rejected an invitation to re-join the national team. The Ghana Football Association invited the two to strenghten the Black Stars in their preparation for the 2002 World Cup qualifying series which will begin in June. In separate radio interviews in Accra on Monday, […]
A REPORT by national automobile group Naamsa, says that the sales of passenger cars in South Africa increased by 27,1% to 55385 units in first quarter of this year. Commercial vehicle sales for the same period increased by 10,2% to 27894 units over the first quarter of 1999. Heavy commercials were six percent down on […]
A TEAM of Egyptian archaeologists working in the Valley of the Mummies on the outskirts of Cairo, has discovered 100 more gold-encased bodies. Team leader Zahi Hawass said the mummies have been found intact in seven newly uncovered tombs at the ancient necropolis where 200 mummies were found last year and which is expected to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 4.15pm. SPORTS Minister Ngconde Balfour has sided with the South African men’s hockey team in its battle against the National Olympic Committee of South Africa to get to the Sydney Games. Balfour spoke in Parliament on the eve of the decision by the International Olympic Committee whether to uphold […]
ALAN FINLAY & Reuters, Johannesburg | Monday 4.00pm. THE JSE slipped lower on Monday on the back of weaker Asian markets, worse-than-expected first quarter gross domestic product data, and Friday’s dip in US markets. The all-share finished 0,60% or 43 points lower. Industrials closed down 1,28% or 104 points and financials ended 0,74% or 65 […]
A BAN on women’s boxing in South Africa will be overturned by legislation to be introduced later this year, Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour said on Tuesday. The ban, effected by a 1954 law, was contrary to South Africa’s post-apartheid constitution which rules against discrimination in all spheres of life, Balfour said in parliament. “Our constitution […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kuala Lumpur | Tuesday 12.20pm. JAPAN has announced plans to send Asian experts to Africa to upgrade skills and help lift it out of poverty. Amongst the plans is a major IT skills injection into the continent. Yasuaki Nogawa, deputy director general of Japan’s Middle East and Africa bureau, said the country will […]
ANGLO American and Glencore have announced that mineral resource group and the world’s largest exporter of thermal coal, Billiton, will be joining them as an equal shareholder in Carbones de Cerrejon (CdelC), a coal mining operation in northern Columbia. CdelC holds the rights to mine three high grade coal reserves – Cerrejon Central, Oreganal and […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Tuesday 5.40pm. A KEY Mpumalanga local government department official allegedly admitted she is an illegal immigrant from Swaziland before escaping from police custody on Monday night. Police prohibited immigrant unit commander, Captain David Chilembe, confirmed on Tuesday that police are searching for the young woman after she gave her police guard […]
STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Tuesday 4.00pm. ALTHOUGH over a million housing subsidies have been approved since 1994 and over four million people have been given homes, South Africa still has a housing backlog of some three million units and there is no money to build them. “The current allocation to the housing budget is […]
AMAZULU have been dropped from the PSL into the coastal first division next season after they were beaten 2-1 by Ajax Cape Town on Sunday. To make matters worse, the KawZulu-Natal team was reduced to nine men, with the sending of of first Elasto Lungu (second warning for dangerous play) and then Jerry Skosana (red-carded […]
ZIMBABWE’s domestic debt has continued to rise to reach Z$98,4-billion, its highest since independence, the central bank said on Monday. This is a 3,2% increase in the week to April 20 and is equivalent to 29% of the country’s gross domestic product. This is also the biggest weekly jump in direct borrowing since independence.
WESTERN donors and Tanzanian officials began informal talks on Monday on how to stimulate growth and use windfalls from recent debt relief to reduce poverty in one of the world’s poorest nations. Representatives of donors, due to attend a World Bank Consultative Group meeting in Dar es Salaam starting on Wednesday, applauded the country’s success […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 4.00pm. ANDRE Vos will stay on as Springbok captain as long as his form and fitness hold, says convenor of selectors Francois Davids. The Cats and Golden Lions number eight was named to lead the 28-man Springbok squad in a Test and two against England next month, after World […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.30am. AS President Thabo Mbeki arrives in the United States for a combined state visit and a trade and investment roadshow, data released in the US has raised concerns that US firms may be loosing market share in South Africa. The Business Day reports that South Africa ran a record […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Saturday 5.00pm. IT was a strange autumn afternoon at Rand Stadium, a few kilometres south of the Johannesburg CBD. Strange because Swallows defeated Sundowns and strange because they collected three precious points using a system alien to South Africa. The Beautiful Birds went into their final Castle Premiership match of the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 3.30pm. A RECENT survey shows that South Africa ranks third in the South African Development Community, as far as income per capita is concerned. The statistics released by international economics consultancy Wefa Southern Africa, said that despite the country being the economic powerhouse of SADC, people on average earn more […]
THOUSANDS of extra UN troops are preparing from Monday to head to Sierra Leone, where rebels are believed to be still holding around 270 of their colleagues hostage as efforts are made to put a stop to renewed civil war in the country. The reinforcements are the result of the United Nations taking a hard […]
NELSON Mandela, chief mediator in Burundi’s peace process, held closed-door discussions on Monday with the country’s rebel groups. The office of the former president refused to say who was attending the talks, how long the meetings would last, or where they were taking place. A spokesman said no statements would be released to the press […]
ALAN FINLAY & Reuters, Johannesburg | Monday 4.00pm. THE JSE slipped lower on Monday on the back of weaker Asian markets, worse-than-expected first quarter gross domestic product data, and Friday’s dip in US markets. The all-share finished 0,60% or 43 points lower. Industrials closed down 1,28% or 104 points and financials ended 0,74% or 65 […]
ALAN FINLAY & Reuters, Johannesburg | Monday 12.30pm. THE South African economy has been more sluggish than thought for the first quarter of the year, largerly due to slumps in the agriculture, forestry and fishing sectors after this year’s high rainfalls and floods. However low growth means that interest rates are unlikely to be increased […]
THE telecommunications infrastructure of Eskom and Transnet is likely to be part of the second fixed line operator, according to Business Report. The line is expected to be up and running by 2003. The paper reports that the two state-owned entities will together own a minority stake in the new operations company. It is likely […]
ERITREAN civic groups will take to the streets early on Monday in what they say will be a “massive, peaceful” demonstration against Ethiopia’s inavasion of Eritrea and a UN arms embargo against the two warring east African nations. According to the Eritrean Civil Society Organisations, the demonstration is to “summon the attention of the international […]
IT company Didata has announced that it has won a multi-million dollar contract to build China’s first vertical industry trading portal. The first phase of the contract is valued at $1,3-million. Didata will design and maintain the business-to-business e-commerce portal for China’s household appliance industry on behalf of China Internet Capital. The entire contract is […]
THE Department of Correctional Services will probe a news report that jailed former cleric Allan Boesak received preferential treatment in jail, just days after he started a three year sentence for fraud. The investigation comes after it was reported that Boesak and his wife Elna were granted a “contact visit” at Malmesbury Prison near Cape […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Sunday 2.20pm. RAIN washed out the morning session on the fourth day of the first Test between England and Zimbabwe at Lord’s on Sunday. The umpires were to make an inspection at 11:15 GMT, 15 minutes after the scheduled starting time, but when there was a heavy shower shortly before that […]
FORMER anti-apartheid activist Carl Niehaus, who has served as South Africa’s ambassador to the Netherlands for the past three years, has been bestowed with the Grand Cross in the Order of Oranje Nassau, by Queen Beatrix. She bestowed the decoration of honour for distinguished services to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The order, only given […]
BRYAN PEARSON, Harare | Sunday 3.00pm. ANTI-government groups in Zimbabwe have begun to tighten the screws on the ruling party, calling for a tax boycott, a university class boycott and deciding to “test the waters” on political thuggery by staging an election rally near a flashpoint Harare suburb. Police, however, moved in long before the […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Sunday 2.25pm. AN ill-conditioned Corrie Sanders lost his WBU heavyweight world title in Atlantic City on Saturday night, and with it the possibility of fighting Lennox Lewis in the new year. Sanders paid the price for relying too much on his punching power and having not fought more than two rounds […]
ZIMBABWEAN fast bowler Henry Olonga is set to go to hospital in London on Friday for a scan on his injured ankle, team officials said. Olonga injured himself in the tourists’ final warm-up match against Essex and was ruled out of the first Test match against England, currently in progress at Lord’s. The bowler has […]
CAPE Town’s Nico Malan theatre complex, named after a former administrator of the Cape Province, will be renamed, with the Western Cape provincial cabinet calling for proposals to be made in writing by June 9. The provincial cabinet has issued a set of guidelines for the new name. The name should be easily recognisable, it […]