THURSDAY, 5.30PM FUGITIVE fraudster Oliver Hill finally looks set to be extradited to South Africa for trial, after the House of Lords this weak refused him leave to appeal a court ruling that he be extradited to face fraud charges totalling at least R100-million. Hill fled SA in 1987 to escape justice after his alleged […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: NATAL Rugby Union is taking the South African Rugby Football Union bosses to court in a row over the plan to regionalise next year’s Super-12 rugby competition. Natal claim that Sarfu’s decision has already cost them R3,5-million in revenue from sponsors. According to the plan, Natal will be grouped together with Border and […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: WITS University beat Hellenic 2-0 at Milpark Stadium in a Premier Soccer League match on Wednesday night. Nicky Shaw and Gary McNab scored for “The Students”. It was Shaw who opened the score in the seventh minute when he connected a Gordon Ewen cross to fire a powerful shot past goalkeeper John Dithebe. […]
THURSDAY, 3.30PM: TRADE among members of the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (Comesa) has grown from under a billion US dollars in 1985 to about $2,2-billion today, acting Secretary-General Erastus Mwencha said in Harare on Wednesday. “This translates into an average annual trade growth rate of 11,1%, compared with an average annual trade […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: THE Congolese soccer officials, who left South Africa on Sunday right after their squad lost to Bafana Bafana in a crucial World Cup qualifier, have lodged a complaint with Egyptian match commissioner Fathy Nossier, claiming that their players were assaulted during and after the match. They alleged that missiles were thrown at their […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM: The administrations of Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Northern Province are on the verge of collapse according to the provincial audit report released on Wednesday. Gauteng, on the other hand, emerged as the best-administered province, with the Western Cape the only other province to be given a relatively clean bill of health. Serious problems […]
MPs, MPLs GET 13% RISE ORDINARY members of Parliament and members of provincial legislatures are to get a 13% salary increase, backdated to January 1, in terms of new salary packages for public representatives approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday. The new packages are based on the findings of the Steyn Commission on the Remuneration […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: ANDRE JOUBERT is back in the Springbok team as a replacement for the injured Russel Bennett. Joubert was suprisingly overlooked when the team was announced to face Australia in a Tri-nations Test on Saturday. Springbok coach Carel du Plessis said it was an easy decision to call him back because he was on […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: MINING house Gold Fields of SA has posted a taxed profit for the year to June of R37-million, from R429-million the previous year, as the weak gold price and an extraordinary write-down as a result of problems at Northam Platinum took their toll. Gold Fields said that as the market price of Northam […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S Amanda Coetzer beat Linda Wild 6-1 6-2 in the first round of the $450 000 US women’s hard court championships at the International Tennis Centre at Stone Montain, Atlanta, USA on Monday. World number five Coetzer said this event will be a good test in preparation for this month’s US Open. […]
TUESDAY, 6.00PM SHARES on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange moved slightly higher in thin trade on Tuesday as Wall Street bounced back from Friday’s precipitous fall, with the only downside to the day the rand’s further losses against the dollar. At the close the all gold index had edged up 0,9 points to 1 017,6 on […]
WEDNESDAY, 5.00PM THE Rwandan genocide suspect employed by the Namibian Government as a doctor shows little understanding of medical practices. Dr Andre Rwamakuba, wanted in Rwanda for his involvement in the 1994 murder of hospital patients, has been sent for retraining at Katatura Hospital after a deluge of complaints from Gobabis, where he was first […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: KAIZER Chiefs registered their first win of the season when they beat AmaZulu 2-1 in a Premier Soccer League match at Kings Park Stadium in Durban on Tuesday night. For AmaZulu, it was the second defeat in a row. Chiefs opened the score through midfieder Isaac Kongoane in the 41st minute after he […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: BAFANA BAFANA defender Mark Fish became the most expensive South African player when he signed a four-year contract with the newly promoted English Premier League club Bolton Wanderers, for a transfer fee of about R19-million from Italian Serie A side Lazio on Tuesday. Fish first broke the South African transfer record last year […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM SOUTH African gold production declined again in July, falling 4,5% to 39,81 tons from June’s 41,67 tons, according to latest figures from the Chamber of Mines. The fall continues a trend thast has seen gold production progressively decreasing over the past few years to the level where the United States is in a […]
TUESDAY, 3.30PM FORMER Civil Co-Operation Bureau managing director Joe Verster, who testified before the Harms Commission in disguise, was finally photographed by journalists on Tuesday during a break in questioning by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s investigative unit. The grey-haired, bespectacled Verster, who was subpoenaed to testify behind closed doors at the TRC’s Cape Town […]
TUESDAY, 3.30PM ONE of the policeman being sought for questioning by investigators probing the July slaying of five African National Congress members in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands town of Richmond was shot and wounded in the town on Monday. Richmond police confirmed an attempted murder docket had been opened following the shooting of Siphiwe Dlamini. Dlamini […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) resumes its programme with six matches around the country on Tuesday night. AmaZulu will host Kaizer Chiefs at Kings Spark Stadium in Durban at 8pm. In their last matches, AmaZulu and Chiefs lost 2-1 to Real Rovers and 3-1 to Cape Town Spurs respectively. If Chiefs’ recent performances […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: SOME R800-million of wine co-operative KWVs net asset value of R2-billion belongs to the state, a Cape court heard yesterday. The Minister of Land Affairs is opposing KWV’s attempts to convert from a co-operative to a public company, arguing that the co-operative based its business success on years of state assistance. The court […]
TUESDAY, 10.05AM: SPRINGBOK coach Carel du Plessis suprised everyone on Monday when he named Justin Swart as the possible replacement for the injured Russell Bennett. Bennett is one of the four players to have to undergo a fitness test prior to selection. While Andre Joubert is everyone’s choice to replace Bennett, Du Plessis said both […]
TUESDAY, 5.00PM THE Congress of SA Trade Unions on Tuesday continued its series of one-day regional strikes in support of its demands for changes to the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill with a stayaway in KwaZulu-Natal. Businesses in the province reported an average 60% stayaway. The main action of the day was a march by […]
MONDAY, 1.30PM: INTERNATIONAL Boxing Federation junior featherweight champion Vuyani “The Beast” Bungu succesfully defended his title for the ninth time against Mexican Enrique Jupiter at Carousel on Saturday night. Bungu won the fight on points. Bungu is now looking at a unification fight against World Boxing Organisation champion Junior Jones. Before that fight — which […]
MONDAY, 1.30PM: WESTERN Province beat Gauteng Lions 53-16 in a Bankfin Currie Cup match at Newlands in Cape Town on Sunday. Province led by 24-3 at the interval. Province attacked around the scrum and easily found gaps in the Lions’ defence. They scored seven tries and two penalties. The Lions replied with two tries and […]
MONDAY, 5.00PM The judicial commission of inquiry into the fraudulent disbursement of Z$1,5-billion from Zimbabwe’s War Victims’ Compensation Fund opened on Monday with Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Florence Chitauro blaming loopholes for the abuse of the fund. Chitauro told commission chairman Justice Chidyausiku that the War Victims’ Compensation Act was fraught with […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM JOHANNESBURG Stock Exchange traders are preparing for a stormy day on Monday following sharp declines on international markets after the local close on Friday. Wall Street’s Dow Jones industrial average shed 247,37 points or 3,1% to 7694,7, its biggest fall since Black Monday on October 19 1987. Wall Street followed an earlier slide […]
MONDAY, 1.30PM: SPORT and Recreation Minister Steve Tshwete is going ahead with the inquiry into the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu). The five-member task force, which has been investigating irregularities in South African rugby since April, will be changed into a judicial inquiry. It is likely that former judge Mervyn King, tax lawyer Michael […]
MONDAY, 1.30PM: THE Springbok selectors have made two forced changes to the squad to play against Australia in the final Tri-nations Test match at Loftus Versveld Stadium on Saturday. Johan Erasmus replaces Andre Venter — who is suspended for three weeks after being sent off for stamping on All Blacks captain Sean Fitzpatrick, and Warren […]
MONDAY, 1.30PM: SOUTH AFRICAN Cricket Academy are leading New Zealand by 152 runs with eight second-innings wickets standing, after three days’ play in the four-day match at Chatsworth in Durban on Sunday. Tidy bowling by Nicky Boje – 3/62 in 32 overs – and Anthony Botha – 3/22 in nine overs – restricted New Zealand. […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM: The audit commission, the parliamentary oversight committee overseeing the work of the auditor-general, has come out in support of auditor-general Henri Kluever in the row between him and Mineral and Energy Affairs Minister Penuell Maduna. The African National Congress-led commission, chaired by ANC MP Barbara Hogan, expressed unqualified support for the integrity and […]
MONDAY, 1.30PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S Ernie Els finished on 290, 10-over-par in the final round of the PGA Championships in Mamaroneck on Sunday. He was consoled however, by a six-iron 185-yard hole-in-one that hit the green once and rolled into the cup. “I lost my game on Friday. I kind of lost it on the greens […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM SA Chamber of Business director-general Raymond Parsons has warned that SA’s overburdened taxpayers can expect 16 new levies and taxes in the near future. Describing South Africans as already groaning under the weight of the heaviest tax burden in the world, Parson added: “In this life, we know that only death and taxation […]
NEW MALAWI PARTY MALAWI’s newest political party, the United Party, launched on Friday, on Monday named Bingu wa Mutharika as its interim chairman. Mutharika said the party’s mission is to “unite Malawians, provide a sense of direction for our country, rejuvenate growth and develop a new political and economic structure.” Mutharika is the former chief […]