PRESIDENT Mandela, on a state visit to Indonesia, said on Tuesday that the SA government would sell arms to Indonesia for external defensive purposes "without hesitation", and will not put pressure on the Indonesian government over its occupation of East Timor.
TUESDAY, 4.30PM FORMER head of the erstwhile National Intrelligence Service Niel Barnard told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Tuesday that several people currently occupying prominent leadership positions in SA had supplied information to the apartheid intelligence agency during the 1980s. Barnard, now Director-General of the Western Cape, was subpoenaed to by the TRC to […]
TUESDAY, 5.00PM VIOLENT confrontations between students and Kenyan riot police which reignited in Nairobi on Monday continued on Tuesday. Cars were damaged and road signs ripped down, but no injuries were reported. Students from Kenya Polytechnic clashed with riot police outside the High Court building where 14 of their colleagues were due to appear in […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM: The draw for the Iwisa Charity Soccer Spectacular will be made by Premier Soccer League officials at the Sunnyside Park hotel on Tuesday. Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates, Moroka Swallows and Mamelodi Sundowns have qualified for the draw. The four teams qualified by registering the most votes in a telephonic and postal vote system […]
MONDAY, 5.00PM The conflict between the National Union of Mineworkers and the Mouthpiece Workers’ Union at Anglo American Platinum Mines near Rustenburg took a turn for the worse at the weekend, when a NUM shopsteward was murdered on Saturday, and another two NUM members were killed on Monday morning. At 2am on Saturday, a group […]
MONDAY, 12.50AM: GAUTENG Lions captalised on the poor kicking of Mpumalanga Pumas to win their Currie Cup match 27-26 on Sunday. Mpumalanga squandered 12 extra first-half points through missed kicks at goals. Lions scrumhalf Johan Roux saved his team after by scoring two tries, converting two of them and converting two penalties for a personal […]
MONDAY, 5.00PM SOUTH Africa’s democracy could collapse if the corruption of the police and the judicial system by organised crime syndicates is not stopped, Deputy President Thabo Mbeki warned on Monday. Speaking after the weekend meeting of the African National Congress’s national executive committee, Mbeki also said elements of the previous apartheid government’s security forces […]
DEMOCRACY SUMMIT AFRICA’S first high-level summit on good governance ended on Saturday in Abbis Ababa, with a pledge by participants to “to pursue collaborative programmes” for the transparent management of public affairs. The forum, sponsored by the UN and the OAU, discused issues such as transparency, accountability, the rule of law and “free and responsible […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM BLACK-controlled information technology group Sourcecom Technology Solutions has won a fiercely fought contest for a R65-million Telkom contract to supply Compaq hardware to the telecoms parastatal over the next year. STS won the contract against 35 other tenders. The 100% black-owned company was formed in 1996 through the merger of Impact Integration Systems […]
MONDAY, 8.00AM A FORMER Western Cape security policeman seeking amnesty for torturing Umkhonto we Sizwe cadres on Monday demonstrated the “wet bag” technique to a truth commission hearing. Many of Jeff Benzien’s former victims looked on as he demonstrated the technique at African National Congress MP Tony Yengeni’s request. Benzien had in the past used […]