THE Port Elizabeth High Court has ruled that a security business in the city and its sole owner pay in excess of R14-million to the South African Revenue Service. The Sars has hailed the judgement as significant because the sole owner of a closed corporation is now, in terms of the judgement, personally liable for […]
GRIQUAS and the Gauteng Falcons gave each other as good as they had in their Vodacom Cup match, with the visitors eventually winning 17-16 in Brakpan. The half-time score was 10-6 in favour of Griquas. Griquas skipper Luther Bakkes, playing at hooker, scored for Griquas as did lock Hanu Nel. Edrich Lubbe converted both tries […]
AT least 34 homes, a school and three game lodges have been destroyed by flooding in the Chiawa valley of the lower Zambezi following opening of spill gates at the giant Kariba Dam. Aid workers say maize fields along the river banks in the valley have been destroyed after the waters rose just over 5.1 […]
MINERALS and Energy Minister Phumuzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Friday announced PricewaterhouseCoopers as the consortium to advise government on restructuring the electricity distribution industry. Mlambo-Ngcuka said PricewaterhouseCoopers was selected above 16 other bidders to advise government on developing a comprehensive and integrated implementation strategy for the establishment of regional electricity distributors.
THE Natal Wildebeeste scored a convincing 26-18 win over the South Western Districts Eagles in their Vodacom Cup clash in George on Saturday. The Natalians played a sparkling second-half and went into the second stanza leading 14-7. Natal also pick up the full complement of bonus points in this, their first match of the competition. […]
EGYPTIAN courts ordered 40 people remanded in custody on Monday after a student’s death crossing a road brought 3000 rioters onto the streets in clashes with police in which some 60 people were hurt. A total of 78 people were brought in for questioning after the rioting just north of the capital but the others […]
REPRESENTATIVES from thirty African, Caribbean and Latin American nations met in Mali on Monday to discuss how to stop deserts taking over more of their land. The three-day conference, organised by the United Nations, will discuss ways of putting into practice the body’s desertification control convention. UN agencies say that 110 countries are affected by […]
EMSIE FERRERIA, Cape Town | Tuesday 6.00pm ECONOMISTS said a stronger dollar rather than a weaker rand has precipitated the downward spiral in the local currency, which crashed through the the crucial R6,50 early Tuesday, only to recover by later afternoon. At one point in early trade the rand was heading for the R6,55 mark […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Tuesday 10.30am SASOL has delivered over 520000 litres of motor fuels to Zimbabwe to help with an acute energy shortage that has been escalating over the last three months, state television said. Eight tankers of petrol and five of diesel arrived in Harare on Monday evening after a deal signed between […]
DE BEERS on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for the construction of a R610-million diamond recovery plant in Kimberley. Announcing the project in Kimberley De Beers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer said: “The construction of this new Combined Treatment Plant (CTP) will have a significant positive impact on the life of the remaining Kimberley Mines, and the continued […]
THE Rupert family is expected to expand its presence in the international luxury goods market with the help of a R3,5-billion cash hoard from the sale of part of its 35% stake in UK-based company British American Tobacco (BAT), reports Business Day. Two Rupert-controlled companies, Richemont and Rembrandt Group (Remgro), unveiled plans on Monday to […]
ZIMBABWE’S former president Canaan Banana launched an appeal in the Supreme Court on Monday against his conviction and sentence for sex crimes. Banana was found guilty in December 1998 on several counts of homosexual assault and sodomy, mostly committed while he was president from 1980-1987. He was sentenced to an effective one year in jail […]
SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Tuesday 11.40am THE rand crashed through the crucial R6,50 to the dollar level in early trade on Tuesday morning and is heading toward R6,55 as persistent negative sentiment continues to dog the currency. Economists remain bemused as to the sudden drop from favour of the rand, pointing only to last […]
A LAST-gasp penalty by Casper Steyn secured victory for the Blue Bulls in a Vodacom Cup match against the Mpumalanga Pumas on Saturday. The Bulls led comfortably by 28-12 halfway through the second-half, but just when they thought they had it won the Pumas scored three tries. Geoff Appleford scored two and Frikkie Welsh grabbed […]
ORLANDO Pirates took no prisoners in their 3-0 thrashing of Classic in a PSL match at Makhulong Stadium in Tembisa on Saturday. Pirates led 2-0 at the break through goals by Phumlani Mkhize and Steve Lekoelea. The first-half was played in heavy rain and the conditions made it difficult for the players. Lekoelea scored his […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday 11.40am. ZIMBABWE’s race-based land crisis has escalated with the invasion of more than 200 white-owned farms by thousands of people led by independence war veterans. The government and police should act immediately to prevent “an escalating state of anarchy,” said David Hasluck, director of the Commercial Farmers’ Union, representing commercial […]
MORE than 14000 nurses have left South Africa during the past year, SABC television news reported on Sunday. The nurses cited poor working conditions, poor pay and understaffed hospitals as factors driving them away. They saids they receive better salaries, with clothing allowances, as well as accommodation in countries like Saudi Arabia and the United […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.30pm. WHEN former no.1 WBA contender Henry Akinwande fought in South Africa two weeks ago he was still suffering from the hepatitis B virus, but didn’t undergo a medical, a United States hearing has revealed. A medical is required by law to be done on a boxer prior to a […]
THE search for a missing single-engine aircraft that plunged into the sea off Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape on Sunday is continuing. Authorities said they have lost sight of the wreckage of the plane which was last seen floating in the water, about three-and-a-half nautical miles from Birdrock, south of Port St Johns […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bangalore | Monday 7.40pm SOUTH Africa have slammed India by an innings and 71 runs to claim the first home-series win in 13 years, bowling their hosts out for 250 in the second Test at Bangalore and convincingly winning the series 2-0. India started on Monday looking still to be in a strong […]
ALLEGED mafioso, Vito Palazzolo, was re-arrested at his Cape Town home this weekend and is expected to appear in court on Monday. The Directorate of Public Prosecutions said Palazzolo was re-arrested at his Bantry Bay home on Saturday in connection with fraud and forgery charges relating to his South African citizenship. He was arrested last […]
THE Cape Town Regional Court has given alleged Sicilian mafia kingpin Vito Palazzolo seven days to give reasons why his South African citizenship should not be cancelled. Palazzolo was re-arrested on the weekend on fraud and perjury charges relating to his application for South African citizenship in 1994. He was arrested in November on the […]
WATER Affairs and Forestry Minister Ronnie Kasrils, and Lesotho’s Minister of Natural Resources Monyane Moleleki on Friday inaugurated a new highway in Lesotho. The new road is to facilitate easy transportation of materials and services for the construction of the Mohale Dam and tunnel, part of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. It will provide 24-hour […]
MORE than 12000 villagers in the Chiawa area about 100km from the Zambian capital Lusaka have been hit by floods after the gates of Kariba dam were opened last week. A spokesman for the villagers said that houses and crops have been washed away and that they are appealing for compensation from the Zambezi River […]
A PARIS court ruled on Monday that a Rwandan former army officer accused of taking part in the genocide of 1994 should be handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Francois-Xavier Nzuwonemeye, 45, was arrested at his home in Montauban in southwest France on February 15, on the basis of a warrant […]
TWO survivors of a plane crash in Botswana walked into a game camp in the north-east of the country Sunday after a 200km hike through the desert. The men said they had left three other survivors of Wednesday’s crash when they set off on their journey on Thursday to find help. The aircraft was more […]
THE remaining three passengers of a light Cessna 414 which crashed in Botswana on Wednesday have been found alive. Two survivors of the crash arrived at a game camp in the north-east of the country on Sunday, after a 200km hike through the desert. The aircraft was more than halfway to Maun when the pilot […]
FOREIGN Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is expected to wrap up her bilateral visit to Burundi on Monday. Amongst others, she met with Burundian President Buyoya, the country’s two vice presidents and cabinet ministers. Burundi has urged the South African government to fully support the peace process and appealed to Dlamini-Zuma to encourage investment in Burundi. 05
ZIMBABWE’S key index shed 5,2% during the week as investor confidence was shaken by the country’s economic crisis, especially a critical three-month-old fuel shortage which threatens to bring industry to a halt. Brokers say that the fuel crisis, coupled with a spate of white-owned farm invasions by liberation war veterans over the last three weeks […]
THE United States Information Service has offered to help Swazi journalists set up an independent media body. The offer follows protests against a proposed Media Council Bill, seeking to force all journalists to be licenced by the Ministry of Broadcasting and Information Services. Swazi journalists are planning a meeting to discuss how best to use […]
WEST Africa’s regional bourse, the BRVM, essentially composed of Ivorian stocks, was little changed on the week, but the all-share index has lost 7% from the start of the year. Brokers blame a lack of foreign liquidity after a December military coup in Ivory Coast, with investors waiting for an agreement on budget aid to […]
THE United States on Saturday dispatched two C-130 military planes based in Germany to help the rescue effort in flood-ravaged Mozambique. A US Air Force spokesman at Ramstein said that five more planes will leave on Sunday. The two planes carrying 40 people including flight crews and support personnel, are the first of seven C-130s […]