ELECTRICITY CUT-OFF BEGINS THE Gauteng government on Tuesday began cutting off electricity supplies to households that refuse to pay for municipal services. The cut-off began in KwaThema near Springs, where local government MEC Sicelo Shiceka said there is no justification for residents not to pay for services, because the apartheid government they were protesting against […]
MONDAY, 5.30PM: THE African National Congress said on Tuesday it has traced three witnesses willing to sign affidavits that they testified falsely against three ANC members who were subsequently wrongfully jailed for the 1994 ”Eikenhof murders”. After meeting the jailed trio, Sihpo Gavin, 27, Sphiwe Bholo, 29, and Boy Ndweni, 22, at Pretoria Central Prison, […]
TUESDAY, 5.00PM PARASTATAL arms manufacturer Denel on Tuesday declined to proceed with a court interdict prohibiting the Sunday Independent from naming a Middle Eastern country with which Denel is negotiating a multimillion-rand arms sale. The newspaper at the weekend defied the interdict and named the country in the public interest. The temporary order issued 10 […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: MAMELODI Sundowns’ Isaac Shai was the only new player in the 23-man squad named by national soccer coach Clive Barker on Monday to face Congo on August 16 at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. Barker has kept the same squad who did duty against Zambia two months ago. Defender David Nyathi and striker Jerry […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: THE Springboks went down 32-20 to Australia in a Tri-Nations match at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Saturday. Shaky backline and pathetic tackling cost Springboks the match. Springbok coach Carel du Plessis said after the match the team will have to go back to the drawing board for this Saturday’s game against the […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM A LATE panic on Friday saw the rand losing almost 3c against a ramapant dollar to close at a new six-and-a-half-month low of R4,6345. Traders believe the pressure will remian on the local currency, with some seeing R4,65 as a possiblity. The rand’s losses were due, however, to the strength of the dollar […]
MONDAY, 4.30PM The trial of former Zimbabwean president the Reverend Canaan Banana, 61, on charges of homosexual rape was postponed on Monday for six weeks to allow him to be represented by a top advocate. The trial, which involves 11 counts of sodomy, attempted sodomy and indecent assault, was due to begin on Monday but […]
MONDAY, 5.30PM: THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Monday granted amnesty to former Vlakplaas police hit squad commander Dirk Coetzee and two accomplices for the November 1990 murder of Durban human rights lawyer Griffiths Mxenge. Coetzee and two former Vlakplaas operatives, David Tshikilange and Almond Nofomela, were convicted of Mxenge’s murder in the Durban High […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S Llewellyn Hebert has qualified for the 400m hurdles final on Monday night at the World Athletics Championships in Athens. Hebert qualified for the finals after finishing second in the semi-final on Sunday night. He clocked in a time of 48,31sec behind Frenchman Stefane Diagana’s 48,14sec. “I held back a bit. All […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: AUSTRALIA beat South Africa by 19 runs to win the World’s Super 8 cricket tournament in the Royal Selengor Club grounds at Bukit Kiara on Sunday. Australia pocketed $10 000 and a challenge trophy and South Africa received $6 000. Australia, who chose to bat first, did not make a good start with […]