WEDNESDAY, 5.30PM ZAMBIAN riot police fired teargas at demonstators in Lusaka, and arrested 18 supporters of former president Kenneth Kaunda, including some senior members of his United National Independence Party (UNIP). Unip members had assembled outside their party headquarters for a march on the offices of two state-controlled newspapers, which they accuse of biased reporting. […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S US Open champion Ernie Els advanced to the final of the Andersen Consulting World Championships of golf after beating Zimbabwean Nick Price 3 and 2 in Kohler on Wednseday. Els will play against Steve Elkington, who beat defending champion Greg Norman 2 and 1 on Wednesday. The winner will pocket $200 […]
PORTUGUESE president Jorge Sampaio met Nelson Mandela in South Africa on Wednesday, and thanked him for his role as mediator in the East Timor controversy.
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 […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM AS the gold quarterly reporting season continues, both Avgold and Johannesburg Consolidated Investments on Tuesday reported poor results for the June quarter, as mines struggle with the falling bullion price, poor margins and labour troubles. Avgold group’s gold mines reported a R1,1-milion taxed loss, from a R1-million profit in the March quarter, while […]
TUESDAY, 3.30PM AFRICAN National Congress lawyers told the Shell House inquest on Tuesday that police might be guilty of culpable homicide for failing in their duty to prevent clashes between supporters of the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party during a march in Johannesburg in 1994. The inquest is probing the deaths of 19 people […]
HEAD-HUNTER ACQUITTED NICHOLAS MBAMBATHO, alias ‘Chief’ Nicholas Gcaleka, the man who made a much-publicised trip to Scotland last year to retrieve the skull of Xhosa king Hintsa, was on Monday acquitted in the Umtata Magistrate’s Court of fraud involving the purchase of large amounts of liquor. A second fraud count involving the purchase of R65 […]
MONDAY, 4.00PM THE European Union on Tuesday announced it is to fund a Southern African initiative to eliminate deadly landmines from the region, and especially in Mozambique and Angola. The EU contribution of 2,07-million European Currency Units (about $2,35-million) will cover the use of satellite and other technology to locate and count the estimated 20-million […]
TUESDAY, 1.30PM: SOUTH African Football Association president Molefi Oliphant shocked his audience at a press conference on Monday when he did not know the countries where Bafana Bafana overseas based players are plying their trades. In a conference called to announce tha cancellation of Bafana Bafana’s scheduled August 6 friendly in Cape Town, Oliphant made […]