| Wed 10 Mar 2010 |
World Cup's main beneficiary is Fifa, and SA's slice slims
Business Report | By Ethel Hazelhurst | Submit your comment | Early estimates of the economic benefits to South Africa from the World Cup seem to have been too optimistic. | Gillian Saunders, the Grant Thornton supervisory director of research in 2008, said s... |
Bringing a Taste of New York to Johannesburg
The New York Times | JOHANNESBURG - Adam Levy was a teenager growing up in Melrose, a whites-only suburb in northern Johannesburg, when Nelson Mandela was released from prison 20 years ago. Today Mr. Levy - much like the city itself - has traded the racial restrictions... |
Fred Rickaby: Jockey who became a trainer known for his scientific methods
The Independent | The recent obsession in genealogy, fostered by websites and television programmes would have held little interest to Fred Rickaby, the leading jockey and racehorse trainer. He knew exactly who he was and, in a business where pedigree matters, reali... |
Need to know: BP investment ... Inmarsat earnings ... Eurotunnel results ...
The Times | View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap | Economics | Trade deficit: Official figures showed that the trade gap in goods widened by nearly £1 billion to £7.987 billion in January, after exports dropped by nearly 7 per cent, the biggest fall... |
Turkey can take a step forward by confronting its past
The Times | Sir, I find Norman Stone's apparent view (Opinion, Mar 8), that bad things are best forgotten in the interest of economics and politics, totally unacceptable, as I am sure do the survivors and relations of family members who were the victims of the... |
Skydiver Lareece Butler survives plummeting 914m in South Africa
The Daily Telegraph Australia | A SKYDIVER miraculously survived after plummeting 914 metres to the ground when her parachute became tangled. | The Sun reported today Lareece Butler escaped with bruises, a broken leg and concussion after slamming into the ground in South Africa. ... |
| Tue 9 Mar 2010 |
ANC seeks clarity on Winnie interview
Independent online | Submit your comment | The African National Congress said on Tuesday that it was trying to confirm with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela if she told a British newspaper her ex-husband Nelson Mandela had "let down" the nation. | Madikizela-Mandela's scathin... |
Magistrate facing murder charge is suspended
Independent online | By Kamini Padayachee | An Umlazi magistrate, who is charged with the attempted murder of his wife, has been provisionally suspended almost a year after the criminal charges were opened against him. | Michael Themba Masinga, 50, of Woodlands, is cha... |
Zakumi factory closed amid labour probe
Independent online | Cape Town - A Chinese factory has halted production of World Cup 2010 mascot toys after an investigation into alleged sweatshop conditions, the merchandise company for world football body Fifa said on Tuesday. | Global Brands Group, master licensee... |
Nobody will remove Zuma, says Malema
Independent online | African National Congress Youth League chief Julius Malema on Tuesday expressed support for President Jacob Zuma leading the ruling party for a second term. | "There is nobody who will remove Zuma. If you want to survive in the ANC, support Zuma an... |
Manuel chosen for high-level UN job
Independent online | Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel will serve on a high-level United Nations Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing. | In a statement on Tuesday, his ministry said the group of 19 experts would be co-chaired by British Prime Minister Gord... |
Police monitor Mamelodi residents
Independent online | The situation in Mamelodi East is improving by the hour following a service delivery protest by residents earlier on Tuesday, Pretoria police said. | "There haven't been any injuries reported. A number of police officers were deployed to monitor th... |
March disrupts lectures on KZN campus
Independent online | By Gugu Mbonambi | Tests were cancelled and lectures disrupted at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Howard College campus in Durban on Tuesday as dozens of protesting students marched around the institution. | The strike - called by the students' r... |
Poaching case delayed again
Independent online | By Tony Carnie | There has been another inexplicable delay in the trial of Mlungu Ngubane, a KwaZulu-Natal man charged with the slaughter or illegal possession of almost 100 leopards. | Since it was originally set to start in July last year, the tr... |
The Forgotten Plight of Zimbabwe's Xenophobia Victims in South Africa
All Africa At least 1,500 Zimbabweans who fled their homes in the De Doorns farming area in the Western Cape, after they were attacked by South African mobs, believe they have been overlooked by authorities and aid agencies. | ... |
Transnet not building coal terminal
Business Report | Mumbai/Johannesburg - South Africa's Transnet said on Tuesday its port division was not planning to build a new coal terminal, denying claims by industry sources who said the facility would be built and operational by June this year. | South Africa... |
In Finland Islamic Gender Apartheid Starts Young.......
Newsvine | This story comes by way of the intrepid Kumitonttu, concerning a day care center in Finland, in which a Muslim father demanded that they cater to his Islamic beliefs, and segregate his son from other Finnish girls during nap time. It's been noted m... |
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