THURSDAY, 4.30PM The haemorrhage of members from the National Party continued on Thursday when nine black Nats from North-West province defected to Roelf Meyer’s New Movement Process. Making thwe announcement, leader of the group Stoffel Masebo claimed that a number senior local African National Congress figures might follow suit. Masebo said ANC members are disillusioned […]
THURSDAY, 5.30PM The two envoys dispatched to SA by Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha to smoothe the diplomatic rumpus caused when information minister Walter Ofanagoro descibed SA as a “white country with a black head” were arrested on arrival at Wonderboom airport near Pretoria on Thursday. Mandela denied the meeting with Nigerian envoys Rabu Dagari and […]
THURSDAY, 1.00PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S Peter Malinga beat Alessandro Duran in the third round, to be crowned as the new World Boxing Union (WBU) welterweight champion in Sicily on Wednesday night. Malinga dropped Duran with an overarm in the second round. Duran tried to survive and came back for the third round where Malinga dropped him […]
THURSDAY, 5.00PM THE Malawi Supreme Court on Thursday threw out an appeal by the state in its attempt to reopen murder and conspiracy charges against former president-for-life Hastings Kamuzu Banda. The ruling ended a three-year-long judicial process that chief state prosecutor Kamudoni Nyasulu described as “a catharsis” for a young democratic nation that suffered three […]
ANOTHER MEGA-HEIST FIFTEEN armed robbers ambushed a security van on the N4 highway near Bronkhorstspruit, killed two security guards and stole R8-million in cash on Thursday morning. A massive manhunt has been launched to track down the culprits. Pretoria deputy fire chief Gordon Kuhn was shot while driving past the scene of the robbery and […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM THE Congress of SA Trade Unions is to go ahead with its threatened rolling mass action in support of demands on the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill, starting with a one-hour national work stoppage on Monday, but has opened the way for a resumption of talks between itself, government and business on the […]
THURSDAY, 5.00PM SIERRA Leone coup leader Major Johnny Paul Koroma said on Wednesday his military junta will not hand over power to a civilian government before 2001, effectively torpedoing peace talks in Abidjan. Regional foreign ministers who have been negotiating with Koroma’s envoys in Abidjan for a return to civilian rule slammed the announcement and […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM INVESTEC Securities said on Wednesday that the rand had been among the weakest currencies in the Southern African Development Community over the past 18 months. Between January last year and the end of last week, the rand lost 20% against he Malawi kwacha, 11% against the Mauritian rupiah, 17% against the Mozambican metical […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) on Wednesday released its congested fixture list for the 1997/98 season and apparently left no space for the annual Four Nations Cup tournament. PSL’s representative Andrew Dipela said the league will not change the fixture list to accommodate the Four Nations Cup. Meanwhile, South African Football Association general […]
WEDNESDAY, 3.30PM TWO Afrikaans television viewers in Pretoria are refusing to pay their licence fees on the grounds that the SABC is failing in its constitutional duty to protect and promote indigenous languages. SABC lawyers spent five hours in negotiations on Tuesday at Pretoria’s magistrates court with Theresa Benade and JC van der Merwe, who […]