WEDNESDAY, 3.00PM THE Bushbuckridge Border Committee, the organisation which has been articulating the community’s demands in the acrimonious provincial border dispute in the area, on Wednesday refused to comment on a compromise proposal aimed at solving the border dispute, despite ostensibly being one of the parties to the agreement. On Tuesday Constitutional Affairs Minister Mohamed […]
WEDNESDAY, 8.30AM The education department has scaled down the launch of its ambitious “outcomes based” school curriculum, blaming staff and funding shortages for the delay. The new curriculum, which abandons learning by rote and external exams, will only be taught in grade one next year, with pilot programmes in grades two and seven at 270 […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM FOOD and beverage group Cadbury Schweppes says it is investigating the possibility of buying bottling machinery from New Age Beverages, the local Pepsi bottler currently in provisional liquidation. MD David Jackson said the company has forwarded detailes to its UK parent firm to ascertain whether any of its global units are interested in […]
WEDNESDAY, 3.00PM A GROUP of angry Zimbabwean war veterans attempted to storm the national parliament building in Harare on Tuesday, prompting the legislature to call on President Robert Mugabe to take urgent action on war veterans’ compensation pay-outs. Riot police were called in to break up the demonstration by more than 100 former combatants who […]
WEDNESDAY, 3.30PM A POLICE general has agreed to testify at the amnesty hearing of confessed police torturer Captain Jeff Benzien to confirm that “unconventional interrogation methods” were authorised at the highest level during the apartheid conflict. Benzien’s lawyer, Gustav Cook, made the announcement on Wednesday shortly before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee adjourned […]
WEDNESDAY, 4.30PM RIOTING flared again in the Mpumalanga town of Secunda on Tuesday when gangs of youths petrol bombed council vehicles and the houses of town councillors. In Embalenhle township outside Secunda, 15 vehicles were torched, as were the houses of the mayor and a town councillor. Mpumalanga police say the attacks are linked to […]
WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: THE FEDERATION of International Football Associations’ (Fifa) newly introduced rules will come into effect at the Iwisa Charity Soccer Spectacular on Saturday. The Premier Soccer League’s referees boss, Errol Sweeney, said on Tuesday: “We are reminding referees, clubs and the public that Fifa introduced the rules at the World Youth Championships last month”. […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM FORMER apartheid homeland broadcasters are to be integrated into the SA Broadcasting Corporation as soon as an audit of their assets has been finalised and all parties consulted, SABC communications head Enoch Sithole said on Tuesday. Sithole said the integration is expected to take place within the month, and a comprehensive report will […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.25AM: THE Northern Transvaal prop forward Marius Hurter has been included in the Springbok squad to face New Zealand in their Tri-Nations match on Saturday. Hurter is among four changes to the team that played the British Lions on July 5. Hurter comes in for Griqua prop Dawie Theron. Ruling out hooker James Dalton […]
WEDNESDAY, 12.00NOON ZIMBABWEAN market analysts are confident that the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange will rise to new heights this year, thanks to the recent IMF decision to resume balance-of-payments support for Zimbabwe’s economic reforms and the budget, reducing the pressure on interest rates. The industrial index, which in 1996 rose by a whopping 121%, was on […]