MONDAY, 4.00PM FOLLOWING weekend reports that Sports Minister Steve Tshwete intends to ask President Nelson Mandela to appoint a commission of inquiry into the management of SA rugby, SA Rugby Football Union president Louis Luyt on Monday said Sarfu will go to court to have the appointment of any such commission overturned. In a statement […]
The diplomatic rumpus over President Nelson Mandela’s "lost" letter to the Indonesian government took a new turn.
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 […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: NORTHERN TRANSVAAL beat Border 39-20 in their Bankfin Currie Cup match at Basil Kenyon Stadium in East London on Sunday. Border trailed 3-12 at one time but came back to take a 17-12 lead. Border’s right wing David Maidza beat two defenders to score a try and he set up their second try, […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM: THE Presidential Review Commission overseeing government restructuring and service deliery reprimanded the finance department for giving a ”shoddy and flimsy” presentation at a public hearing on Saturday. Commission chairman Vincent Maphai said that he hoped other departments still to make their presentations to the commission will be better prepared than the finance department, […]
HUNDREDS AT STAGGIE MEMORIAL HUNDREDS of people attended a memorial service for gangster Rashaad Staggie, lynched a year ago by People Against Gangsterism and Drugs vigilantes, at the Manenberg sports ground on the Cape Flats on Monday. The service was organised by the Community Outreach Forum, a gangsters’ organisation. Police reported no incidents. Later a […]
THE story of how the state witnesses in the Eikenhof trial turned against the chief defence witness, Oupa Kulashe, is a tale of betrayal and deceit.
FRIDAY, 12.00NOON TRANSNET MD Sakkie Macozoma on Thursday delivered a tongue-lashing to Transport Minister Mac Maharaj, saying the minister’s recent statements on privatisation of the transport parastatal and its subsidiaries were reckless and could scupper the whole restructuring process. Maharaj this week made statements about the proposed sell-off equity stakes in Transnet loss-makers SA Airways […]