RETAIL and wholesale group Wooltru said on Thursday it expected flat earnings for the year after reporting a 5% dip in interim results due to poor growth at some of its subsidiaries. “Although certain benefits will accrue in the current year, earnings for the year to June 2000 are unlikely to exceed those in 1999,” […]
HENNIE le Roux, the form flyhalf of 1999 and 1995 World Cup Springbok, will be considered for the Springboks this year, said Bok coach Nick Mallett. Le Roux was not selected last year, apparently because he didn’t play Super 12 rugby for the Cats. Mallett however chose Jannie de Beer, Fritz van Heerden Brendan Venter […]
BETSIE Verwoerd, the widow of former apartheid architect Hendrik Verwoerd, has died in Orania at the age of 98. “She died in the presence of family members without sickness and pain,” her family said in a statement sent from her home in the whites-only town of Orania where she had lived for the past eight […]
AUSTRALIA’S World Cup hero Stephen Larkham has called on Super 12 referees to take a tougher stand against foul play after he was flattened three times in last weekend’s opening round of the Southern Hemisphere tournament. Larkham said the sport’s new regulations allowing referees to sin-bin players are not effective against more blatant rough-house tactics. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.25pm. RAYMOND White, who quit last month as president of the United Cricket Board of South Africa, launched a stinging attack on the country’s cricket administrators, accusing them of causing the sport to “fracture along racial lines.” White, who opted out on February 11 after being accused by a UCB […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bangalore | Thursday 1.20pm INDIA have been bundled out for 158 runs by South Africa on the first day of the series-deciding second Test at Bangalore on Thursday. Javagal Srinath was the last man to go after being superbly caught by Herschelle Gibbs at backward point off the bowling of Shaun Pollock. The […]
THE Weather Bureau says there’s a good chance Mozambique could be hit by a second cyclone within the next week. Weather Bureau spokesman Bheki Mkhize told ZA*NOW that Cyclone Gloria, currently raging over the northern tip of Madagascar, will probably reach Mozambique by next Wednesday. “We expect Gloria to move over the Mozambique channel by […]
LOCAL technology group Idion said on Wednesday it has bought US-based Vision Solutions for $62,5-million in cash, further boosting its strength in network maintenance and upkeep. Vision, based in California but with operations across the United States and throughout Europe, makes systems management software which allows networks or linked computer systems to be more resilient […]
SHARES in synthetic fuels firm Sasol maintained a strong rally on Thursday amid rising oil prices and favourable market reaction to solid interim results. The company said on Tuesday that its headline earnings per share in the six months to December 25, 1999, had risen by 34% to 251 cents. The company, which saw its […]
ALAN FINLAY&Reuters, Johannesburg | Thursday 4.20pm. DESPITE predictions by analysts that the all-share index may not have reached the bottom of its correction, the JSE was boosted unexpectedly 1,46% or 117 points on Wednesday. Gold shares led the way, finishing 3,07% or 36 points stronger. But positive sentiment in the yellow metal was not echoed […]
AN SAA airbus skidded off a Lusaka airport runway just after 1pm on Wednesday. Weather conditions were apparently terrible and the plane came to a halt in thick mud next to the tarmac. Nobody was injured and airport staff successfully evacuated 142 passengers and seven crew members from the airbus.
GAUTENG moved to the top of the Standard Bank log after beating former table-toppers Easterns by five wickets at Willowmoore Park in Benoni on Wednesday. Easterns were all-out for 112 in just over 40 overs and Gauteng looked set for an easy win. They did not reckon 19-tear-old Albie Morkel into the equasion, however, and […]
BRONWEN ROBERTS, Pretoria | Thursday 4.30pm THE Reserve Bank will no longer protect the rand against depreciation but concentrate instead on meeting the government’s inflation targets, governor Tito Mboweni said on Thursday. “We are not entering the market to defend a particular level of the rand/dollar exchange rate,” Mboweni told parliament’s finance committee. “The exchange […]
DOCKERS in Ivory Coast’s main port Abidjan lifted a wildcat strike threat on Wednesday after the ruling military junta made clear that it would not tolerate any more stoppages. Dockers leaders and senior government officials said the dockers, who were threatened with arrest if they ignore the warning, have agreed to negotiate via their recognised […]
PSG Investment Bank said on Wednesday it has acquired all of the issued share capital of the Business Bank Limited (TBB), a subsidiary of TBB Holdings, for R160-million. PSG said the acquisition is expected to have a positive effect on the earnings of PSG Investment Bank for the financial year ending February 28, 2001. ANGLO […]
ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba has committed 800 peacekeepers to Sierra Leone and said his country would welcome a role in policing the ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Returning from a regional conference in Egypt, Chiluba told reporters that Zambia had been formally asked to contribute 800 soldiers to the peacekeeping effort in Sierra […]
PUBLISHER and author Jim Bailey, who launched the pioneering black magazine Drum in 1951, has died at the age of 80 after a brief illness. Knighted in 1996 for his publishing efforts in Africa, Bailey was at the helm of Drum in the Fifties and Sixties, when it was the voice of people in the […]
BOLAND beat Western Province by 19 runs in a Standard Banl League thriller on Wednesday. Boland’s Charl Langeveldt and Charl Willoughby did most of the damage, bowling out Province for 142. Boland scored 161 after suffering a collapse on 150/5. Boland move into second spot on the log with the win over their neighbours.
MORE than 50 Nigerian police officers have arrived in Kinshasa to provide security for rebel leaders who may join Democratic Republic of Congo peace talks. Interior Minister Gaetan Kakudji said 52 policemen arrived on Wednesday as “Nigeria’s contribution” to protect rebel leaders who have been invited to a national consultative meeting organised by churches. Kakudji […]
RUSTENBURG police are still searching for a man alleged to have killed his ex wife and two other people on Monday night. Hendrik Slippers, 38, shot and killed Hazel Slippers, 28, and her future in-laws, George and Merle Smith, 46 and 44 respectively. The Smith couple’s daughters, Wendy, 21, and Judy, 18, were both wounded […]
THE twenty-man squad for the West Indies’ two-Test series against Zimbabwe includes some familiar faces, but there are also a number of less well-known players included. Most of the newcomers in the squad are players who performed well in the Busta Cup. Chris Gayle, Leeward Islands batsman Runako Morton and Guyanese leg spinner Mahendra Nagamootoo […]
HEALTH commentators on Tuesday widely slammed as “laughable” comments by a health department representative that the ministry may reappraise scientific evidence that HIV causes Aids. They were reacting to a statement by Dr Ian Roberts, a special adviser to Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, that the department is looking into the feasibility of getting a […]
MALAWI’s President Bakili Muluzi shifted Finance Minister Cassim Chilumpha, who is under investigation by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, in a cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday. He appointed central bank governor Mathews Chikaonda Finance and Economic Planning Minister, giving Chilumpha Education, Sports and Culture. Muluzi, who dissolved his cabinet on Sunday, named a new cabinet of 24 ministers […]
MORE than 40% of Africans live on less than a dollar a day, according to World Trade Organisation (WTO) figures announced at a conference of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa). A WTO delegation representative told Egypt’s government Al-Akhbar newspaper that poverty is “the most serious problem afflicting the African continent.” The […]
EMSIE FERREIRA, BRYAN PEARSON, Cape Town | Thursday 5.40pm LABOUR Minister Membathisi Mdladlana on Thursday unveiled a draft law that will widen the safety net for the country’s temporarily unemployed. The Unemployment Insurance Bill proposes to extend unemployment benefits to categories of workers, such as domestic workers and seasonal farm labourers, who don’t qualify under […]
CHICKEN fast food chain Nandos has withdrawn its latest television advert after protests by blind people led to a hearing at the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) offices. The advert depicted a guide dog deliberately lead its blind owner into a pole to get at her take-away chicken. The ASA will announce its verdict on Wednesday.
ACCUSED Wemmer Pan serial killer Cedric Maupa Maake was found guilty of a further 15 charges – including murder, attempted murder, rape and robbery – in the Johannesburg High Court on Wedenesday. Judge Geraldine Borchers is still to deliver judgment on nearly 100 other charges. On Tuesday Maake, considered one of the country’s worst serial […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.15pm. FOLLOWING the controversy surrounding the February 19 world title fight between Hawk Makepula and Baby Jake Matlala, Golden Gloves Promoter Rodney Berman, said that the two fighters will meet in a rematch later this year. Before the highly anticipated rematch takes place however, they will both face other opponents. […]
ACCUSED Wemmer Pan serial killer Cedric Maupa Maake was found guilty of five counts of murder, five counts of rape, four of armed robbery, two of attempted murder and two of illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition in the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday. Judge Geraldine Borchers is still to deliver judgment on a […]
THE African Football Confederation has chosen match officials from Senegal to handle the Super Cup showdown between Raja Casablanca of Morocco and Africa Sports of Cote d’Ivoire Sunday. Referee Ndoye Falla and assistants Mamadou Ndoye and Amadou Diop will be in charge of the match between Champions League winners Raja and Cup Winners Cup holders […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday 11.30am. ZIMBABWE needs at least $7.9-million (Z$300-million) to repair damaged roads, bridges and other infrastructure damaged, says Local Government and National Housing Minister John Nkomo. Thousands of Zimbabweans faced starvation because food distribution has been rendered virtually impossible in some areas. Opposition parties and official sources in Zimbabwe’s civil protection […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 9.00am. AMAGLUG-Glug coach Ephraim “Shakes” Mashaba is “in a state of shock” after being forced to name a depleted 21-man squad for the March 12 Olympic Qualifier after last week’s shock SA Football Association order that nay player who has turned out for Bafana Bafana is not eligible for the […]