Cheetahs coach Naka Drotske has made two positional and two injury enforced changes to his side that will face the Sharks at Kings Park in Durban on Saturday afternoon. Springbok flanker Heinrich Brussow returns to the starting line-up after a lengthy absence due to a toe injury and replaces injured flanker Lappies Labuschagne. Cheetahs flyhalf … Read more
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Reserve Bank said on Wednesday it had had fined the country’s top four banks a total 125 million rand ($11.8 million) over lax anti-money laundering controls. The central bank said in a statement it had fined the South African unit of BarclaysAfrica Group 10 million rand, FirstRand 30 million rand, Nedbank 25 … Read more
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and YOUKYUNG LEE From SAPA – Associated Press Nearly 300 people were still missing on Wednesday several hours after a ferry carrying 459, most of them high school students, sank in cold waters off South Korea’s southern coast, killing at least two and injuring seven, officials said. There were fears, however, of … Read more
From SAPA Around 290 people are officially missing after the sinking of a South Korean ferry, national media reported Wednesday. The government in Seoul said a previous figure of about 100 missing was incorrect, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported. The passengers were mostly secondary school students on a field trip to Jeju island south … Read more
By TALES AZZONI Tickets for nearly two-thirds of the World Cup matches were sold out within hours of FIFA opening the final online sales phase on Tuesday. Five hours after sales opened on FIFA’s website, there were tickets available to only 20 of the 64 matches. Only 15 matches still had tickets available 10 hours … Read more
Listed property is entering a period of consolidation. As we know, interest rates are rising, which drives up the cost of financing. This typically has a subduing effect on property prices, because people have a reduced appetite for taking on high-interest-rate debt. At the same time, companies’ monthly interest payment expenses increase, so they are … Read more
Just a few days ago, I was complaining to a friend that South Africans seem to be behind the curve on tech innovation, that we don’t seem to be developing exciting technologies like the Americans do. Well, here to put me in my place is entrepreneur Stafford Masie, with his fantastic new Thumbzup pebble payment … Read more
During my years at the Sunday Times in the mid-1980s, columnist Jani Allan (right) was like a Goddess. She always seemed terribly out of place in the smoky, messy offices at the bottom end of Mooi Street – a slim, silent, mysterious creature with an acute fashion sense that heightened the way she contrasted with … Read more
Aston Villa has suspended the assistant manager and a key off-field official as the club fights to stay in the English Premier League. The sudden announcement on Tuesday comes with Villa just four points above the relegation zone with five games remaining. The central England club says Ian Culverhouse, assistant to manager Paul Lambert, and … Read more
Manchester City could be without midfielder Yaya Toure for three of the team’s final six Premier League games. The Ivory Coast international limped out of Sunday’s 3-2 loss at Liverpool, and City manager Manuel Pellegrini says he will need 10-to-14 days to recover from the muscle injury. He did not specify which leg was injured. … Read more