MONDAY, 4.30PM A JOINT operation by South African and Mozambican police between May 21 and the end of last week resulted in the recovery and destruction of thousands of firearms and millions of rounds of ammunition, found in scores of arms caches left over from Mozambique’s 20-year civil war. The operation, “Rachel III”, was aimed […]
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, 3.30PM HEAVY fighting was reported over the weekend between Angolan government troops and separatist forces in the oil-rich enclave of Cabinda. Fighting is concentrated in Tandu-Zinze, Buko-Zawu and Belize, in the north of the province, the private pro-government Correio da Semana reported on Monday, adding that the separatists were using long-range weapons. The Angolan […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: BAFANA BAFANA and Mamelodi Sundowns midfield strongman Linda Buthelezi is out of the squad to face Congo in the World Cup qualifying match on Saturday after injuring his right leg in the Premier League game against Orlando Pirates on Saturday. Buthelezi was given his marching orders by referee Des Goslett after he tackled […]
FRIDAY, 11.30AM: INVESTMENT Bank SBC Warburg has refused to publicly disclose the number of Sentrachem shares it has bought recently, after the SA Press Association lost two copies of an announcement to that effect last week. SBC Warburg is advising US-based Dow Chemical Company on its proposed R2-billion buy-out of troubled local chemicals giant Sentrachem. […]
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 […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM THE National Party has complied a report on government corruption over the past three years, and concluded that between R13-billion and R20-billion has been lost at central and provincial levels, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape. Most of that money — between R7,9-billion and R10,6-billion — has been lost to maladministration; the […]