A BRAZILIAN journalist who was gang-raped by about ten attackers on Friday night near the Bruma Lake complex in Johannesburg received anti-Aids treatment, Johannesburg police said on Saturday. Inspector Mark Reynolds said the woman (28) had been rushed to the Sunninghill clinic in Sandton, which has a rape trauma centre, and was given anti-retroviral therapy, […]
THE South African National Boxing Commission will take a decision on Tuesday on whether or not Gauteng lightweight Martin Jacobs can replace Border’s Koko Tshamlambo in a national title bout against KwazuluNatal’s South African champion Enoch Zita in Durban on Sunday. Officials from the Commission’s interim executive said Tshamlambo is still on the ticket, and […]
THE African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday said it is shocked and angered by the murder of an ANC councillor in the midlands. In a statement ANC provincial secretary Sipho Gcabashe said a Georgedale ward councillor, Thulani Tetane, was shot and wounded while he was returning from a community meeting where he had reported […]
AFRICA offers high returns on investment according to a focus on the continent initiated jointly by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, the United Nations Development Programme and the International Chamber of Commerce. The focus revealed that African affiliates of US transnational corporations had enjoyed average returns of […]
SOUTH Africa and Australia on Thursday signed an agreement to avoid double taxation between the two countries, the Australian High Commission said. “The agreement prevents double taxation by allocating taxing rights between Australia and South Africa in respect of all forms of income flows between the two countries,” it said in a statement. This Is […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Canberra | Monday 2.00pm. NEW Zealand rugby officials may consider using minders to keep leading players out of trouble following a weekend nightclub incident in the Australian capital Canberra. New Zealand A team management on Monday confirmed three players — All Blacks Craig Innes, Carlos Spencer and Walter Little — were held briefly […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Glasgow | Monday 1.00pm. NAMIBIAN international Quinton Jacobs says he will keep his word to join lowly Partick Thistle, despite interest in the midfielder from Dutch giants Ajax and Belgian outfit Anderlecht. Jacobs, 20, is set for a debut in the Scottish League Cup tie against Alloa after refusing to go back on […]
FIVE thousand miners from ERPM gold mine on the East Rand are to be retrenched with immediate effect, SABC news reported on Monday. This follows government’s refusal to assist the mine with bridging finance of R18-million, the broadcaster said. ERPM has been in serious financial crisis since 1990 but the government has spent R450-million in […]
THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange announced on the weekend that it is extending the deadline for the introduction of the pilot phase of its new electronic settlement system, Strate, to the end of the third quarter of this year. The JSE said the extension will not impact on the Y2K projects of the JSE, or anyone […]
THE National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa said on Sunday that vehicle sales for June have declined slightly, compared with the sales in the same period last year. The overall June sales stand at 24367 units sold, compared with 24657 units sold in May — a 1,2% decline. This is a 13,2% fall […]
THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange said that that four companies face suspension of their listings because they have not submitted financial statements within six months of their financial year ends. The companies are Karos Hotels Ltd, Marlin Corp Ltd, Marlin Holdings Ltd and Mhangura Copper Mines Ltd. The companies have until July 31 this year to […]
DENIS BARNETT, Durban | Monday 1.00pm THE United States government’s Overseas Private Investment Corporation on Monday announced a $350-million fund for infrastructural development in sub-Saharan Africa. “We hope this will launch in this part of the world a tremendous infrastructure-building that will further attract foreign direct investment,” OPIC chief executive George Munoz told a press […]
AN unidentified Norwegian, employed by a South African mining group, booked into a luxury Pretoria hotel on Saturday, where he was killed in a massive bomb blast that completely gutted the room. Police say the 41-year-old man left notes for his family at his Pretoria home, hinting that the cause may have been suicide. The […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lusaka | Sunday 8.00pm. DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo (DRC) peace negotiations are being hampered by disagreements over the wording of a ceasefire document in various languages, sources close to the meeting said on Sunday. Disputes over translations of the document from English into French and Portuguese are delaying the finalization and signing of […]
AN antique ring, set with a thumbnail-sized diamond, has gone missing from a parliamentary library. The diamond ring, bequeathed to the nation in 1917 by mining magnate Sydney Mendelssohn, was displayed in a case below a portrait of the financier and diamnond magnate in a wing of the parliamentary library housing a collection of Mendelssohn’s […]
SOUTH Africa will benefit from joint investments in Mozambique which are expected to ignite an economic boom in the impoverished country, Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said on Thursday. Erwin told an international conference on investment opportunities in Mozambique that closer economic ties with Mozambique are fundamental to South Africa’s transformation into an internationally […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday 6.45pm. SCOTLAND, in deep trouble at half time against Gauteng’s Lions on Saturday, staged a courageous fightback in the second half — getting within metres of a winning try in the dying seconds of the game. But in the end, it was the Lions who won 33-31, after frittering away […]
THE “National Reconciliation Council”, Niger’s ruling military body, on Wednesday adopted a draft constitution for the Fifth Republic. It states that Niger will in future be ruled by “a president elected under universal suffrage who will be politically responsible except in cases of high treason.” The president will appoint the prime minister, cabinet ministers and […]
Guinea has filed an application at the International Court of Justice for permission to intervene in the land and maritime boundary dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon, presently before that court. A statement by the court on Wednesday said Equitorial Guinea stated that the purpose of the application to intervene “is to protect [its] legal rights […]
HUNDREDS of riot police have been deployed in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare as a maize shortage continues to grip this southern African country, once an exporter of the staple crop. Although no explanation has been given by the government, the deployment of the riot squad, which began this week, is seen as an attempt […]
THE riddle of the Lowveld “bear”, sighted last week about 10km outside Nelspruit, was solved this week when the creature showed his bark was worse than his bite. The Lowvelder newspaper reports it was all a case of mistaken identity and the “bear” is a brown bouvier cross-labrador. The dog looks so much like a […]
ZIMBABWEAN liberation giant Joshua Nkomo, who died on Thursday aged 83, will be buried on Monday. Nkomo, who died at Harare’s Parirenyatwa hospital where he was admitted in May with prostate cancer, will be buried at the country’s national shrine, the Heroes Acre, on the outskirts of the city. Reacting to Nkomo’s death, South African […]
WHILE out of the singles competitions at Wimbledon, South Africa has two standard-bearers in the women’s doubles draw quarterfinals. Mariaan de Swardt and Ukrainian Elena Tatarkova are ninth seeds, and quickly beat Spain’s Virginia Ruano Pascal and rgentina’s Paola Suarez 6-4 6-3. Liezel Horn and Slovenian partner Katarina Srebotnik disposed of sixth seeds Lisa Raymond […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Friday 5.30pm. GOOD gold and foreign exchange reserves data failed to make much of an impact on South African financial markets on Friday, although most major indices were up. The Reserve Bank released figures showing gross gold and foreign reserves figures of R35,1-billion rand at the end of June from R34,4-billion […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dunedin | Sunday 8.00pm. JONAH LOMU will rejoin the All Black squad on Monday but is unlikely to make the starting 15 for the Tri Nations Test with South Africa next Saturday. Lomu was impressive in the New Zealand A win over the ACT Brumbies in Canberra on Saturday night. But All Blacks […]
THE United States has ruled out the lifting of UN sanctions against Libya, which were suspended in April, because Tripoli has “failed to fully cooperate with Lockerbie trial proceedings,” US ambassador Peter Burleigh said in Washington on Thursday. Burleigh said “there are outstanding requests from the Scottish prosecutors which are very specific requests for Libyan […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Saturday 6.00pm. ARGENTINE-BRED El Picha, under jockey Robbie Hill, swept up on the outside to win Saturday’s Durban July. The 12-1 gelding is owned by former trainer Terrence Millard, six times a July winner, and trained by his son-in-law Jeff Woodruff. This was Woodruff’s first July victory. Favourite to win at […]
SOUTH African Airways has announced a code-share partnership with Varig (Viacao Aerea Riograndense) and with Aerolineas Argentinas, ensuring that it will double its frequency between South America and South Africa from two flights to four a week. Effective from Thursday, the airline will fly every Sunday and Thursday non-stop between Johannesburg and Sao Paulo. On […]
TELKOM reported a drop in attributable earnings and share prices, and an increase in operating costs, on Thursday. Its attributable income for the year ended March was R2,3-billion, R0,2-billion less than the previous year. Dividends per share are at 59,5c from 98,1c per share last year. There has been a sharp increase in net operating […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 3.15pm. BANGLADESH will choose a new national cricket coach from either South Africa or Australia following the controversial departure of West Indian Gordon Greenidge, reports said on Friday. “We are expecting the new coach either from South Africa or Australia,” Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Saber Hossain Chowdhury was quoted […]
WINGER Jonah Lomu has been dropped by the All Blacks due to fitness concerns, and will take the field for New Zealand A against Australia in Canberra for a two game tour of the country. The A side take on ACT Brumbies, the Super 12 side, in Canberra on Saturday, and a week later will […]
THE South African Local Government Association on Tuesday suspended its financial manager Carol Mpapele following his arrest on Monday on corruption charges. Mpapele briefly appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Monday afternoon after he allegedly received a bribe from an IT company that was contracted to install network cables at Salga’s new offices in […]