TUESDAY, 10.30AM The system of government subsidies to Mossgas and SA oil companies needs a fundamental review, according to auditor-general Henri Kluever in a special report tabled in Parliament on Monday. Kluever described as possibily unreasonable the huge payments made to Mossgas from the Equalisation Fund, financed by levies on retail fuel sales, which enabled […]
TUESDAY, 4.30PM TREVOR TUTU, son of truth commission chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, was denied bail by an East London Regional Court magistrate on Tuesday pending the outcome of an appeal against his three-and-a-half-year jail sentence for making a bomb threat. Tutu was arrested on Monday after living as a free man for the past three […]
TUESDAY, 6.00PM AFTER a morning of adjournments and delays, Clive Derby-Lewis began his testimony in front of the amnesty committee of the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission in the Pretoria City Hall on Tuesday afternoon. Judge Hassen Mall ruled that the application hearing begin without any further delays, despite a request from Derby-Lewis’s lawyer, Harry Prinsloo, […]
TUESDAY, 1.00PM: BAFANA BAFANA will play a match against Free State XI on Tuesday night as part of their preparation for their do-or-die World Cup qualifying match against Congo at FNB Stadium on Saturday. National coach Clive Barker said the reason for playing the friendly match is two-fold: ”Firstly, we owe it to the Free […]
THATCHER’S PRIVATE POLICE WESTERN Cape police are investigating allegations that Mark Thatcher, son of the former British prime minister, hired moonlighting policemen to guard his home, using police equipment. He also made a failed attempt to start a company called “Rent-a-Cop” which allowed police to earn extra money as security guards. Police commanders initially agreed […]
MONDAY, 8.30AM: THE All Blacks trounced the Springboks 55-35 in Auckland — the highest-ever score against a ‘Bok team — in a dirty match in which ‘Bok flanker Andre Venter was sent off for stomping on the face of All Blacks captain Sean Fitzpatrick. Springbok wing James Small was shown the yellow card for trying […]
MONDAY, 5.30PM INDUSTRIAL shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange followed the lead set by Wall Street on Friday, but gold stocks were saved further punishment by a 4$ rise in the bullion price. The all gold index had climbed 19,7 points by the close, breaking back into four-figure territory to close at 1 016,3. Industrials, […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: JOHAN ROUX steered Gauteng Lions to a 46-37 victory over Griqualand West in their Bankfin Currie Cup match at Ellis Park on Sunday. Roux kicked 21 points for Lions. Gauteng Lions’ coach Dawie Snyman was very satisfied with the team’s perfomance even though they played without Louis van Rensburg. “We were disrupted with […]
MONDAY, 3.00PM The long-awaited amnesty application by Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus, the men convicted of murdering former SA Communist Party leader Chris Hani in 1993, got under way on Monday in the Pretoria City Hall. While a small crowd of SA Communist Party supporters carrying a banner reading, “No amnesty to Hani killers”, demonstrated […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S Des Terblanche won the $200 000 Sabah Masters golf tournament at Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia on Sunday. Terblanche beat third round leader Thammanoon Sriroj of Thailand at the third hole of a sudden-death play-off. Terblanche closed with 6-under 66 to force the play-off. He birdied the 513m par-5 18th hole four […]