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CATERING company Fedics Group on Friday said it is disposing of the business of Fedics as ongoing concern, delisting and liquidating by way of members’ voluntary winding up. The company said in a statement it was disposing of its business to a consortium comprised of existing black empowerment shareholders in Fedics, Ethos and certain members […]

SOUTH African Breweries has held talks with Bass over acquiring its brewing business, estimated to be worth 1,8-billion, the Sunday Telegraph said. Bass Brewers produces Carling, Britain’s biggest selling beer, and would give SAB a quarter of the UK beer market. The report said SAB is likely to face stiff competition from its rival Heineken […]

ERNIE Els shot a 67 in the last round of the golf classic on Perth on Sunday, finishing on 12-under with 276. But he was still eight shots behind Michael Campbell of New Zealand, who won the A$1,4-million event.

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Monday 4.25pm. ALTHOUGH it will be just over a year since Vuyani “The Beast” Bungu last climbed into the ring, when he faces “Prince” Naseem Hamed on 11 March, he is confident of victory. “Hamed isn’t invincible,” says Bungu “He can have all his fanfare, but he’s still only a man. […]

KAIZER Chiefs beat teh Basotho Tigers 3-0 in a friendly in Kimberley on Sunday. Dennis Vukubi scored the only first half goal, while Lucky Maselesele netted twice after the break.

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Monday 4.25pm. ALTHOUGH it will be just over a year since Vuyani “The Beast” Bungu last climbed into the ring, when he faces “Prince” Naseem Hamed on 11 March, he is confident of victory. “Hamed isn’t invincible,” says Bungu “He can have all his fanfare, but he’s still only a man. […]

FIFA chief Sepp Blatter repeated his support on Sunday for African bids to stage the 2006 World Cup. “I said we needed more solidarity and if one of the bids gives all guarantees, it is only logical that we should go round the globe,” said Blatter, who supported African bids last week at the African […]

Dealers said the currency’s weakness, after a period of relative stability, has little to do with South Africa’s economic fundamentals and was mainly the result of the strength of the US dollar, particularly against the euro.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has called for a worldwide annual soccer break in December. “It is vital that soccer should stop for a month”, Blatter said on Sunday. Speaking on French television, the FIFA chief said the sport’s world governing body would present its plan in March for a new, harmonised soccer calendar which could […]

POLICE and soldiers launched a major crime offensive on Sunday by swooping down on Vosloorus township southeast of Johannesburg and netting a rich haul in stolen goods. Amongst other things, the dawn raid netted 12 firearms, 700kg of marijuana plants, one stolen BMW and five other vehicles that police suspect have been stolen. 16 illegal […]

A UNIT of Anglo American Plc confirmed on Thursday that its purchase of the main assets of Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM) had been delayed until February from a previously agreed date of January 31. The statement said that ZCCM and ZCI had made satisfactory progress towards the completion of the sale of the Nchanga […]

AT least 11 people were killed and 18 seriously injured when the vehicle they were travelling in was ambushed in Angola’s northwest Cuanza-Norte province. Armed assailants ambushed the vehicle, which was transporting goods, near Maria Teresa, about 100km southeast of the capital Luanda, an aid worker said. The identity of the attackers is not clear.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kimberley | Sunday 6.00pm. MARK Ealham claimed a world record five lbw decisions and England’s best one-day international bowling figures as they gained revenge over Zimbabwe with a crushing eight-wicket win on Sunday. England overtook Zimbabwe’s paltry 161 for nine with almost 18 overs to spare. It was some compensation for their dismal […]

A MAURITANIAN who was arrested in Senegal after US officials suspected him of plotting a foiled terrorist attack in the United States in December has been expelled to Mauritania. Mohambedou Ould Slahi was arrested last Saturday at Dakar airport, after US police said he was involved in the attack foiled in December when Algerian Ahmed […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Kumasi | Friday 1.30pm. IT may not have always been pretty, but it was a pretty effective display by Bafana Bafana as they became the first team to qualify for the African Nations Cup quarter-finals on Thursday night. Shaun Bartlett raised his tournament tally to three with an opportunist goal in first-half injury […]

NIGERIA’S football players have rejected the win bonus for their 4-2 African Nations Cup victory over Tunisia at the weekend. “In Spain, both the players and NFA (Nigerian Football Federation) agreed that for every match won we will get $3000 each,” said one of the players who did not want to be named. “But when […]

SOUTH Africa will play one-day internationals against India at Cochin, Jamshedpur, Faridabad, Baroda and Nagpur in March, an official of the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) said on Friday. India had delayed finalising the schedule of the one-day series with the South Africans, who are scheduled to open their tour with a three-day […]

THE United Nations on Friday appealed for $190-million to avert another major humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia. “If adequate assistance is slow in arriving, the crisis (of 1999) will not only return but will be much larger in magnitude and severity and certainly more costly to mitigate,” according to a statement released by the UN country […]

A SENEGALESE judge began hearing harrowing testimony of torture and killings against exiled former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre in a landmark human rights case in Africa. Lawyers said four Chadians who say they were tortured by Habre’s henchmen during his 1982-90 rule filed into the chambers of Judge Boucounca Diallo of the Regional Court in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 4.00pm. HITCHES in South Africa’s free trade deal with the European Union over the use of the terms grappa and ouzo are unacceptable, Britain’s visiting minister for Africa Peter Hain has told The Sunday Independent. “I share South Africa’s intense frustration with the way in which all our interests are […]

ANGLOVAAL Mining (Avmin) has signalled its intention to dispose of its stake in the Saturn diamond partnership to De Beers in a deal that could net it close to R40-billion. The Saturn Partnership is a 50% stakeholder in the pretax profit of Venetia Diamond mine, the richest diamond mine in SA. De Beers receives the […]

ANGLOGOLD, the world’s biggest gold producer, said on Tuesday the company’s shares have been included in the All Ordinaries index of the Australian Stock Exchange. AngloGold said in a statement the stock represented 0,11% percent of the ASX All Ordinaries index and 9,6% of the ASX Gold index. Last month the South African gold miner […]

FORD Motor Company has doubled its investment in vehicle manufacturer SA Motor Corporation to 90% by acquiring a further 45% share from Anglo American Corporation of SA. Ford, which already holds 45% of Samcor’s shares, is set to purchase Anglo’s 45% — 35% immediately and the remaining 10% within the next two years. Ford will […]

ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Saturday 6.00pm. THE Supersport Series final at the Wanderers is intriguingly poised at the end of the second day. Gauteng are 221-3 in reply to Border’s total of 346, trailing by 125 runs with seven wickets in hand. The key wicket of Daryll Cullinan is still intact, but the second new […]

MPUMALANGA’s sacked deputy speaker, Cynthia Maropeng, and three co-accused admitted to using almost R1-million in State funds to buy themselves houses and other personal items on Wednesday. Maropeng, legislature secretary Wilson Ngwenya, legislature finance director Jomo Siboza and former legislature secretary Alfred Mahlangu signed the admissions as part of a bid to speed up their […]

David Beresford Another Country South Africa is about to ban discrimination, which, considering this country’s track record in the 20th century and previously, seems a reasonable thing to do. In fact, it is to be outlawed from February 4 2000. This can be stated with the certainty of constitutional edict, the founding document of our […]

Channel vision Last week I was harping on about how television delivers up its little shock tactics. Some crafty incubus waits until the audience is deep in mindless acceptance mode, then slips in a dart so sharp as to horrify. Last Saturday this happened in the middle of an SABC3 news bulletin. The effect was […]

Deon Potgieter Boxing Acknowledged as one of the top 10 South African boxers of the past century, “Baby” Jake Matlala is intent on earmarking a place in the top 10 list of the new century as well. He meets the power-punching Hawk Makepula for the vacant World Boxing Organisation (WBO) junior flyweight title on February […]

Lucretia Stewart Body Language `Why can’t a woman be more like a man?” was Professor Higgins’s bewildered complaint in My Fair Lady, as Eliza Doolittle led him a merry dance. How times have changed. Now men want to be more like women, sometimes even to be women. Failing that, the question today seems to be: […]

FOURTEEN people were killed and 11 were injured when a lorry packed with people and produce plunged off a bridge into a river near Calulo in Angola’s Cuanza-Sul province, LUSA news agency reported on Thursday. Most of the casualties in the Luime river accident were travelling traders on their way to the town of Dondo […]

In the week the SABC showed graphic footage of the carnage in Sierra Leone, a Port Elizabeth businessman has been accused of fuelling the civil war in that country. Peter Dickson reports A Canadian probe into the diamond trade in Sierra Leone has accused a controversial Port Elizabeth businessman of peddling weapons and mercenaries in […]

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