THE African National Congress and the rival Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party on Tuesday agreed to sign a peace pact in the country’s volatile KwaZulu-Natal province. The peace deal — designed to bring an end to more than a decade of bloody feuding between supporters of the two parties — will be signed in the east […]
A GROUP of police reservists will protest outside police headquarters in Pretoria on Tuesday demanding that they be incorporated into the police service. The protesters say they represent around 2000 reservists who were promised incorporation into the police service. Police human resources spokesman Senior Superintendent Johan Smal said no such promise was ever made but […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.30pm. SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallett is worried that ten players from the team who played in the last Test (against England last December) are injured. “Gary Teichmann, Henry Honiball, Mark Andrews, Christian Stewart, James Dalton, Adrian Garvey, Bobby Skinstad, Andre Snyman, Joost van der Westhuizen and Werner Swanepoel are all […]
RWANDA and Uganda are engaged in new moves to mediate in the year-old border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, it has been learned in Addis Ababa. According to diplomatic sources in Addis Ababa, president Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has sent a special message to the Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi to indicate the two countries’ […]
TUESDAY, 7.00PM: THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s buoyant start to the week ended swiftly on Tuesday, with only the all gold index closing in positive territory as all share, industrial and financial indices lost almost 2%. Much of the slump was ascribed to the disappointing figures released by South African Breweries’ annual results presentation. Again, the […]
THE Australian Rugby Union (ARU) yesterday ignored a plea by their New Zealand counterparts to censure New South Wales coach Matt Williams for meeting with referees before Super 12 matches. ARU MD John O’Neill said there was no law in place preventing the meetings called by Williams before the Waratahs’ last two matches in New […]
MOZAMBIQUE will allow hunting of wild elephants and buffalo should an international tender to be held later this month prove successful, a provincial governor said late last week. Governor Aires Aly of the northern Niassa province said the tender will aim to select a company or organisation that can successfully organise the safaris. A recent […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, | Kigali 10.00am AN air raid on the rebel stronghold of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, late on Tuesday night killed 28 people and wounded 15, rebel sources contacted in Goma by telephone said. The sources said the plane belonged to forces backing DRC leader Laurent-Desire Kabila. “I can tell you […]
SHELL South Africa has pledged R3800 to the Nelson Mandela Children’s fund after its Ultra City in Umtata inadvertently upped the price of petrol a day early. A technical error resulted in Wednesday’s 18 cents a litre price rise coming into effect at midnight on Monday. The mistake was rectified only eight hours later when […]
A GOVERNMENT probe into Home Affairs director general Albert Mokoena is recommending that he faces at least six criminal charges for alleged misconduct and misusing state property. The Sunday Times reports that a report by public service and administration deputy director-general Mpumi Sikhosana, containing the recommendations, is to be handed to Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu […]
BAHRAIN and Egypt are a step closer toward linking their stock exchanges following talks between officials from both markets, a newspaper said on Monday. Sameh al-Turjuman, chairman of the Cairo/Alexandria stock exchange, told the Gulf Daily News that efforts to implement a $20-billion-market capital agreement reached last September in Egypt are “encouraging.” But regulatory measures […]
EMPOWERMENT group NextCom, which is hoping to win the third cellular network licence, said Monday that, if successful, it will give business to small and medium-sized black contractors. These contractors, it said, will be responsible for building base stations across the country to run the network under an empowerment structure — Prov-Con. Sifiso Pretorius, chief […]
THE department of Home Affairs on Monday announced that it has completed the processing and issuing of ID books to people who registered for the June 2 elections using temporary registration certificates. The department said in a statement issued in Pretoria applications which have resulted in queries are still being completed. ID book applicants who […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: AFTER months of delays over the planning of the Presidential jobs summit, Labour Minister Tito Mboweni has taken the plunge and proposed that it should happen no later than early July, at least two months earlier than anticipated. It is not clear, however, whether this leaves sufficient time for the preparations required. Business […]
GOLD Fields, born from a merger of Gold Fields Ltd and Driefontein, made a dull debut in Johannesburg on Monday as investors held shy of bullion shares after the metal’s latest tumble. Shares in the new Gold Fields, the world’s second largest gold producer, opened at a below-expectation R24,25, feeling the weight of Friday’s news […]
INJURY-plagued Graham Thorpe and Neil Fairbrother gave World Cup hosts a boost here on Friday as both came through unscathed in a tournament warm-up game against county side Kent. Thorpe, who missed the end of the recent Ashes series with back trouble, scored 55 before chipping out to short mid-wicket. Fairbrother – whose career has […]
MONDAY, 7.00PM: THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange opened the week on a strong note on Monday, with all major indices climbing. Andre Crawford-Brunt of Deutsche Morgen Grenfell said the positive sentiment was from two factors: a strong day of short-covering, and renewed conference in the New York Stock markets Dow Jones industrial average gained over 100 […]
DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.00pm. GOLD shares made something of a dramatic recovery on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Tuesday, rising 22 points to 969, as bullion scratched back a dollar. Financials and industrials crept up, 12 points to 9954 and 45 points to 7345 respectively. The overall index however, suffered, dropping a […]
FORMER Springbok Sevens No 8 Dion O’Cuinneagain will captain Ireland on a four-month tour of Australia late in May. The South African beat out former captains Paddy John and Keith Wood. O’Cuinneagain’s leadership skills make him a contender for Irish World Cup captaincy. He was born in South Africa, but qualifies fo rthe Irish team […]
WORLD Cup holders Sri Lanka impressed observers in a warm-up against English county side Northamptonshire. Eric Upashantha upstaged his better-known team-mates by grabbing three for 33 in nine overs as Northamptonshire were dismissed for 199 with two balls of their 50 overs remaining. Part-time seamer Chandika Hathurusinghe took two for 41. Off spinner Muttiah Murlitharan, […]
A MASSIVE cache of arms and ammunition — sufficient in quantity to cause full-scale war — were discovered in a bunker in in northern KwaZulu-Natal, National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka announced on Tuesday. The arms cache, believed to be the biggest uncovered in South African history, was found by detectives of the directorate, […]
LIBYAN leader Moammar Gadaffi held talks Wednesday in Tripoli with the president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Issa Hayatou. After the talks, Hayatou said that Libya will soon be able to host CAF games after the lifting of the international embargo against it over the Lockerbie Affair. He arrived Sunday evening in Tripoli […]
ETHIOPIA’S first colour television assembly plant became operational over the weekend and the country plans to export the sets to such neighbouring countries as Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The new plant at Kaliti, 15 km on the eastern outskirts of Addis Ababa, was financed at a cost $600000 by an Ethiopian private family concern, Yitb […]
THE gold price dropped to below the $280,00 per ounce mark on Monday, its lowest point in eight months, following concern about the Bank of England’s decision to sell more than half of its gold reserves. In London, on Monday afternoon, the gold price was fixed at $278,00 compared with Friday’s fixing of $282,40 and […]
THE Organisation of African Unity on Monday urged all countries to refuse all cooperation with the new junta in the Comoros and decided to withdraw the military officers from its observer team in the Indian Ocean island chain. A communique issued after an ambassadorial level meeting of the OAU’s central organ for the prevention, management […]
CALM returned to the Dukuduku forest in northern KwaZulu-Natal on the weekend after eight protesters were arrested during clashes with police on Thursday. On Friday morning police and the army were patrolling the road where protesters went on the rampage and opened fire on police on Thursday. After the skirmish with police the residents fled […]
GOVERNMENT troops in Congo have killed dozens of hostile Ninja militiamen in fighting north of the capital, where army reinforcements have been deployed, a military source said on Monday from Brazzaville. A few civilians also died in Sunday’s fighting, which took place around the military training centre at Bilolo, 25km north of Brazzaville, and on […]
ORLANDO Pirates contnued their late-season surge with 3-0 drubbing of Bush Bucks at the FNB Stadium on Wednesday night. The Buccaneers move into third place in the Castle Premiership with the win. They have now been unbeaten in 8 outings. Pirates were 2-0 up at the break, and completely dominated the first half. They wandered […]
PICK ‘n Pay announced on Monday that it will sell its shareholding in 7-11 Stores back to 7-11, giving the Western Cape-based company total ownership. Pick ‘n Pay formed a joint venture with 7-11 Stores in February 1997 to form 7-11 Africa, which was designed to operate outside of the Western Cape. Pick ‘n Pay […]
NTSIKI Biko, the widow of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, is in a stable condition at the St Dominic’s Hospital in East London after she was injured in a head-on collision on the N2 between Umtata and Idutywa in the Eastern Cape late on Saturday afternoon. A minibus taxi she was travelling in collided with another […]
WITS University and SuperSport United played to a 1-1 draw in their Castle Premiership soccer match at Milpark Stadium on Friday night. Supersport’s Glen Salmon scored in the 84th minute after a rebound from substitute Michael Thurling, who had come on for Richard Peer in the 67th minute. Wits substitute Nicky Shaw levelled matters in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 3.30pm. SOUTH African soccer officials have reacted with delight to Nigeria’s decision to withdraw their bid to host the World Cup finals in 2006 and instead support the South African bid. South Africa 2006 World Cup bid chairman Irvin Khoza said on Tuesday that the Nigerian decision comes as a […]