Новости за 19.02.2018

JOHANNESBURG - The abandonment of fiscal consolidation as a key policy anchor in the October 2017 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) led to the downgrade to sub investment grade by S&P and the credit watch by Moody’s,  Old Mutual Investment Group said in a statement on Monday. 

JOHANNESBURG - The Bulls won’t be losing any sleep over the possible inclusion of the world’s best rugby player Beauden Barrett to the Hurricanes team that will play against them in their Super Rugby encounter at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.

The thorny topic of land reform and tackling the looting of state resources by the politically connected dominated Monday's debate.

CAPE TOWN - The collaboration between UCT and Eskom on Applied Thermo Fluid Process Modelling Research Unit (ATProM) seeks to provide engineers with up-to-date research, and real-world experience and solutions to some of the challenges facing the aging energy infrastructure in South Africa.

CAPE TOWN – Platinum Stars veteran midfielder Robert Ng’ambi wants to bring his A game to help Dikwena move up the Absa Premiership table.

Kempton Park - The evacuation of the OR Tambo International Airport on Monday, after an unattended bag was discovered is not part of a simulation expected to take place in Kempton Park on Monday night, the South African Police Service (SAPS) said.

Louis Trichardt - A group of armed men attacked and blew up a cash-in-transit vehicle on Monday, making off with some of the money and injuring a security guard along near Hendrick Verwoord tunnel outside of Louis Trichardt, Limpopo police said.

JOHANNESBURG - Maties and Wits were again the big winners in round four of the Varsity Cup as they cemented their place at the top of the standings and have set up a mouth-watering clash between themselves in Johannesburg next week.

INTERNATIONAL - India’s federal police detained two employees of Punjab National Bank (PNB), the state-run lender that says it has been the victim of a $1.77billion (R20.54bn) fraud, in the first arrests of a fast-widening probe into the country’s biggest bank scam.

Gokulnath Shetty and Manoj Kharat are suspected of steering fraudulent loans to companies linked to billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi and entities tied to jewellery retailer Gitanjali, which is led by Modi’s uncle, Mehul Choksi.

JOHANNESBURG - Maties and Wits were again the big winners in round four of the Varsity Cup as they cemented their place at the top of the standings and have set up a mouth-watering clash between themselves in Johannesburg next week.

RUSTENBURG - North West premier Supra Mahumapelo on Monday instituted a forensic investigation in the provincial health department to deal with allegations raised by the members of the public about the department.

Kruger National Park - Despite South Africa's Environmental Affairs Minister, Edna Molewa, announcing the spike in elephant poaching, the South African National Parks (SanParks) on Monday, said fence monitoring by community members had assisted with curbing poaching. 

Mogwase - Gruesome details of how a man was killed in Marikana near Rustenburg emerged at the North West High Court sitting in Mogwase on Monday.

JOHANNESBURG - At the final event of 2017, the undisputed and undefeated bantamweight champion, Demarte ‘The Wolf’ Pena, stated that he needed a break from competition.

Rustenburg - Nigeria does not support crime, Consul General Godwin Adama told the Rustenburg Magistrate's Court, in South Africa's North West province, on Monday.

A homophobic video urging Russians to re-elect President Vladimir Putin has gone viral less than a month before the country's election.

INTERNATIONAL - Zambia will rearrange loans from Chinese companies and instead look to borrow directly from the Asian giant’s government in a bid to satisfy International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditions and unlock a potential $1.3billion (R15.08bn) loan from the multilateral lender.

On Saturday the Zambian presidency said borrowing directly from the Chinese government would ease the repayment burden after the IMF on Friday rejected Zambia’s latest plan, saying it would make it harder for the country to sustain its debt load. Читать дальше...

JOHANNESBURG - The Small Business Institute (SBI) on Monday welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa's commitments to examine the role government has played in holding back South Africa's small and medium enterprises (SMEs), but called for the collapse of the Department of Small Business Development.

CAPE TOWN – Former Springboks Jaque Fourie and Ryan Kankowski could be in line to make a surprise move to feature for Australia's Western Force franchise.

Durban - The management of a temple in Northdene, in Malvern, is expected to confront a local scrap dealer today to determine how he came in possession of their brass deity statues.

Mervyn Moodley, secretary of Northdene Shree Sathi Velayuthan Kadaval Alayam, said worshippers discovered the temple was ransacked and some brass statues stolen on Saturday afternoon.

UPDATE: Five alleged armed robbers were killed and one injured during a shootout with police when their getaway vehicle crashed on the M13 Highway on Field’s Hill yesterday afternoon.

Police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbhele said the driver of a getaway vehicle that was transporting a gang of six alleged robbers lost control of the vehicle and crashed on a sharp bend while driving down Fields Hill.

Mbhele said the gang had allegedly committed several robberies yesterday... Читать дальше...

CAPE TOWN - Businesses are constantly coming up with more ways to earn money. 

JOHANNESBURG – He was often dismissed as the jester of the rugby world, but Peter de Villiers believes that Saru is living in a fool’s paradise and that Springbok rugby has gone backwards.

PALM BEACH - The White House said on Monday that President Donald Trump supports efforts to improve federal background checks for gun purchases, two days after a shooting at a Florida school killed 17 people.

Durban - As the US reels from another shooting that claimed the lives of 17 people and wounded at least 14 in Parkland, Florida, a young South African living there said the incident had left her fearing for her safety.

“I don’t feel safe in my workplace. I don’t feel safe in a mall. I don’t feel safe where there are a lot of people. If a person can do it at a school full of children, what is stopping them from coming to a workplace where there are many adults?” asked 22-year-old Zinziswa Sonjica... Читать дальше...