Women of the sports world are no longer hiding behind their skirts. They themselves are the latest fashion trend and have no reason to be modest. That was the week of women in sport. The Wimbledon women, the women’s football World Cup and the England versus India women’s cricket test series are moving to centre […]
Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles `This is my game, this is my future, watch me play” has been the marketing slogan for the women’s football World Cup in the United States. As the US and China prepare for the final at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday, it is clear the instruction has been […]
More than a third of South Africa’s economically active population earns between R1 000 to R5 000 a month, a category that generally sitsEuncomfortably above the basic housing subsidy level, but below theEusual financial criteria needed to qualify for a conventional housingEloan from a retail bank. That’s why changes to the Pension Funds Act,Eallowing trustees […]
name, let’s call it “Madiba” and be done. – Will Bernard, Westdene I refer to the report regarding the proposed renaming of Pretoria to Mandela City, to be spearheaded by the New Nationalist Party, according to their representative, one Max van der Walt. A few years ago, the Nationalist Party turned their backs on Dr […]
WATER Affairs and Forestry Minister Ronnie Kasrils announced on Wednesday that he is to close three water projects in the Western Cape. Kasrils said the three Working for Water projects — in George, Mossel Bay and Knysna — will shut down immediately as a result of over-expenditure, low levels of productivity and lack of discipline […]
JAPAN is now leading in development assistance to Kenya, with over $2,2-billion so far disbursed, the country’s ambassador, Morihisa Aoki, said on Tuesday. In terms of bilateral funding, Japan has overtaken the United Kingdom, Kenya’s former colonial power. Aoki said the funds Japan has extended to Kenya are the highest given to any sub-Sahara African […]
TANZANIAN government officials have rejected claims by a New York-based human rights group that the east African country is ill-treating refugees, newspapers reported on Thursday. The privately-owned Guardian quoted Home Affairs Minister Ali Ameir Mohammed as saying that he was aware of the Human Rights Watch report, but said the government had simply rounded up […]
JAKE WHITE will be an assistant coach to Eric Sauls for the South African Under-21 rugby squad for an eight-nation tourney in Argentina in July. Despite Australia’s domination of the U21 arena, White feels the “Baby Boks” can achieve their best showing this year, after finishing third out of five last year. The squad has […]
SWAZILAND has finally reduced corporate tax by 7% to 30%, to encourage local and foreign investment in the kingdom. The reduction is contained in the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill of 1999 presented to the cabinet recently by finance minister John Carmicheal. Swaziland has maintained its corporate tax at 37% over the years whilst other regional […]
THE Health Professions Council will judge whether or not the two babies reported to have died in Coronation Hospital in Gauteng over the weekend, suffered neglect. The Gauteng health department is to conduct its own inquiry into the deaths, though it claims there was only one death. Despite the obvious shortage of resources, the department […]
SUPERSPORT, the televison sports giant, has bought 40% of rugby’s Natal Sharks. SuperSport and the Natal Rugby Union have formed a new firm to handle all the province’s professional rugby interests, including the Sharks and the Natal Wildebeest. SuperSport MD Russell Macmillan called Natal the “Manchester United of the rugby world”, praising its professionalism. SuperSport […]
A TOTAL of 45 people received medical treatment after an explosion at a factory in Brits in North West on Thursday. Brits Medi-Clinic nursing service manager Emily Wasserman said two people had sustained 80% burn wounds and were taken to Pretoria East Hospital. Four who sustained 20% to 30% burn wounds are in the clinic’s […]
SIX teenagers have been arrested for raping a 28-year-old Brazilian journalist in Johannesburg over the weekend. The youths, aged between 17 and 19, are suspected of raping the journalist on Friday, about 14 hours after she arrived in South Africa in transit to another African country. police said they had found what they believed to […]
EAST London’s Greg Emslie (22) currently ranked 33rd on the G-SHOCK ASP World Championship Tour emphatically defeated Brazilian Crhistiano Spirro in round two of the Billabong MSF Pro to advance to round three of competition on Friday. Emslie dominated the 30 minute clash from start to finish, posting a whopping 8,0 ride out of a […]
ANGLO-DUTCH oil giant Shell has ordered two mobile flowstations for its Nigerian operations at a combined cost of $40-million, a Shell official said on Wednesday. The Italian company ABB Soimi and a Nigerian-United States joint venture ABNL/Baker Hughes picked up the two contracts, said the official. The flowstations are to be used to pump oil […]
A CHOLERA epidemic that raged through Malawi from September to June killed at least 5000 people and infected 30000 others. Malawi’s controller of preventive health services, Wilfred Chalamira Nkhoma, said on Thursday: “We haven’t received any reports of cholera since the end of June, and we can now say the situation is now under control.” […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.00am. SOUTH Africa’s World Boxing Union heavyweight champion of the world Corrie Sanders is on his way to the big league. Sanders has been matched in a unification bout with the newly crowned World Boxing Organisation’s heavyweight champion, Vitali Klitschko. “The Sanders-Klitschko battle will undoubtedly be the biggest championship fight […]
SOUTH Africa’s Airports Company on Tuesday reported upbeat results for the year to March 31, 1999, but cautioned that the current year’s earnings will be hit by interest costs on borrowings and asset depreciation. Acsa unveiled turnover up 19% at R844,22-million from R710,39-million the previous year. Headline earnings a share were up to 52,24c from […]
COCA COLA said that the price of South African sugar as well as high excise tax is negatively affecting its production capacity in the country. Speaking at the World Economic Forum summit in Durban on Monday, president of the southern Africa Division of Coca-Cola said that Coca-Cola is encouraged by South Africa’s bold first steps […]
SOUTHERN Africa Development Community (SADC) executive secretary Kaire Mbuende said on Tuesday the region wants its $50-$75-billion debt slate wiped clean by the world’s rich nations for a fresh start to the new century. “Most of the debt is owed to governments and multi-lateral institutions, so it is within the power of the G7,” Mbuende […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 11.50am. SOUTH Africa on Wednesday rebuked Britain for its decision to auction off 25 tons of gold, and thousands of newly unemployed miners marched on the British embassy in protest. “The South African government finds both incomprehensible and unacceptable the insensitivity of the British government and its monetary authorities towards […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 6.30pm. THE Department of Sports and Recreation will not be wielding the big stick as far as sporting quotas are concerned, Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour said at a Johannesburg press conference on Thursday. However, Balfour said, a meeting of all the major sporting representatives which would include the National Olympic […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM: ROYAL Swazi Airlines on Tuesday chose SA Airlink as its preferred partner, after inviting 24 sub-regional airlines to submit proposals for an alliance or joint venture. Announcing its choice, the Swazi cabinet said it is hoped the move will end continuing losses at Royal Swazi. After years of crippling losses, Royal Swazi recently […]
KENYAN police fought running battles with rioters after clashes erupted at an opposition rally in the capital Nairobi on Wednesday. The fighting started at the end of the rally, addressed by opposition parliamentarians and other reform activists, when several hundred young people started throwing stones at each other. The result was a running battle between […]
MALAWI has joined with three of its neighbours in the multi-million dollar Mtwara Development Corridor that aims to boost trade and investment in landlocked countries in the region. Negotiations on the corridor, which will also pass through Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique, started last November and it is believed to have the potential to draw trade […]
MOZAMBIQUE’S Association of Demobilised Soldiers announced on Wednesday that it will establish a private security company staffed by former soldiers and guerilla fighters. The new company will initially be funded by the association, but will be expected to achieve self-sufficiency by the year 2001. Amodeg spokesman Martins Buanaher said this will help members get a […]
MOZAMBIQUE needs about $300 million to reconstruct the 600km Sena railway line that suffered damage during the country’s 16-year civil war that ended in 1992. The country’s president, Joaquim Chissano was quoted on Monday as saying Mozambique is talking to potential investors from the United States, China and Italy to provide financing for the reconstruction […]
ZAMBIA was forced on Wednesday to increase its fuel prices by 10,9% after a fire gutted portions of its only oil refinery. The Zambian Energy Regulation Board said in a statement on Wednesday that the price hikes are designed to cover the high cost of importing refined petroleum products from neighbouring countries to replace the […]
LESOTHO lodged a formal objection with the Southern African Development Community on Monday, complaining that the kingdom’s Prime Minister, Pakalithi Mosisili, was excluded from the African economic summit in Durban. Lesotho Foreign Affairs Minister Tom Thabane said on Monday that the SADC’s secretariat in Gaborone invited the country’s finance minister, Leketekate Ketso, to the summit […]
“ARMY worms” moving in swarms across northeastern Ghana are destroying cereal crops at an alarming rate, a source at the ministry of agriculture said on Monday. In the Mamprusi district, the moth larvae are moving in armies of up to six hundred per square metre and have already infested an area as large as 150km […]
PREMIERSHIP side AmaZulu may get new owners from down under after negotiations between current majority shareholder Dan Naidoo and a New Zealand consortium. The group is headed by New Zealander Greg Doolan, and has reached an agreement in principle pending the deposit of money into Naidoo’s account. Doolan tried to buy some of Moroka Swallows, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 3.30pm. THE wage demands of public service unions were “inappropriate” considering the limited funding available for social services, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Wednesday. She urged unions to return to the negotiating table, saying a solution could still be found which would satisfy state employees without […]