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 […]
MONDAY, 6.30PM: ENGLAND are fighting back fiercely in the face of a renewed South African onslaught on the final day of the third cricket Test at Old Trafford on Monday. English skipper Alec Stewart, who played a remarkable innings up to lunch, was eventually dismissed for 164 superbly played runs. Stewart was caught by Lance […]
CARLOS PORRAS, Los Angeles | Tuesday 1.00pm. CONFEDERATION of African Football (CAF) president Issa Hayatou says he believes Africa can win its bid to stage the World Cup for the first time in 2006. Speaking in Los Angeles where football’s world governing body FIFA is holding an executive committee meeting, Hayatou said he is “confident […]
ESKOM’S medical fund is in financial trouble but will be kept going by the company while it contemplates the scheme’s future, the Council of Medical Schemes said on Monday. Registrar of Medical Schemes, Danie Kolver, said Eskom reported financial shortfalls in its medical fund, Esmed, a few months ago. In terms of the plan, Kolver […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM: THE Isak Steyl stadium in Vanderbijlpark will be playing host to the biggest ever Coca Cola Under-19 Craven Week rugby tournament which kicks off on Monday. A total of 720 players, playing in 36 teams will be in action at the tournament, leaving much to do for the selectors in order to choose […]
RUSSIA has confirmed that a Russian flight crew have been captured by Unita after their Angolan-owned Antonov-12 transport plane caught fire and was forced to land in Unita-controlled territory on Wednesday. Unita have confirmed that one of the Russians died in the fire; the others are being held in captivity. This is the fifth Russian […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Sunday 7.00pm. TRADE and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said on Sunday negotiations to create a regional free trade deal in Southern Africa are progressing but cautioned that difficulties still lay ahead. Erwin addressed the ninth annual Southern African economic summit in Durban this weekend following a meeting with Zimbabwean trade minister […]
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 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Algiers | Sunday 8.00pm. ALGERIAN President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has pardoned thousands of imprisoned Islamic militants as part of a campaign for national reconciliation in Algeria. The pardon, timed to coincide with Algeria’s independence day on Monday, is aimed at people convicted “on charges linked to terrorism and subversion, not implicated in blood crimes […]
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 […]
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 […]
GHANA, whose biggest export is cocoa, on Thursday denounced a proposed European Union directive that would allow chocolate makers to put less cocoa butter in their products and still call it chocolate. The text, once adopted, would allow chocolate with added vegetable fats. The fats would replace cocoa butter up to a limit of 5% […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]