BIG FREEZE TEMPERATURES plummeted across the country overnight as a new cold front swept inland, with daytime temperatures not expected to top 12 degrees C. Snow is falling in the Western Cape mountains and in Lesotho and the eastern Free State. Meanwhile, President Nelson Mandela and Welfare Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi will on Monday visit flood-hit […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM UNPRECEDENTED conditions are being imposed on a new SA airline, Air South Africa, which intends to start thrice-weekly flights between Johannesburg and London via Malta later this year. The tough new conditions are the first enforcement of new legislation promulgated following the disastrous collapses in recent years of three infant airlines in SA. […]
MONDAY, 11.15AM: LEONARD CHEUNE retained the presidency of Athletics South Africa (ASA) at the national body’s annual meeting at Esselen Park on Saturday. This was after the Western Province Athletics boss, Alex Marshall, withdrew his nomination for president and vice-president, leaving Cheune unopposed for the top position. The Gauteng North chairman, Stix Stiglingh, won the […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM LAST week’s gazetting of a draft Bill giving statutory recognition to the National Home Builders’ Registration Council has set the scene for a clash between government and the Building Industries Federation of SA. The draft Bill makes it an offence to operate a business as a home builder unless registered with the council, […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM SOUTH Africa may acquire two Ukrainian-built floating hotels for use as prison boats, following a personal inspection of the vessels by Correctional Services Minister Sipo Mzimela. The vessels will cost about R5-million each, with afurther R2-million required to transport them to SA and an additional R40-million to convert them into prisons, making them […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM THE Central Statistical Service said at the weekend that the SA economy lost 71 000 jobs last year in the non-agricultural formal sector, in a blow to government’s hopes of creating 126 000 jobs. Government’s growth, employment and redistribution strategy (Gear) projected 126 000 jobs would be created last year, with a further […]
MONDAY, 10.00AM THE Gauteng leader of the vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs at the weekend threatened his group will kill powerful Gauteng drug barons he described as “untouchable” by the law. Ayob Mungalee said: “We feel we have a right to kill these people because they are killing many other people with their […]
MONDAY, 4.30PM MULTINATIONAL conglomerate Lonrho has broken off merger negotiations with SA mining company Johannesburg Consolidated Investments, Lonrho announced in London on Monday. The proposed merger would have created one of the world’s biggest mining companies, with interests in coal, gold, platinum and other precious metals, and combined assets of over $3-billion. Speculation that the […]
MONDAY, 9.30AM A GROUP of 135 members of the Federated Long Distance Taxi Association was arrested at Bushbuckridge on Sunday morning, charged with public violence, theft and assault. The drivers will appear in the local magistrates’ court on Monday morning. They were arrested after preventing taxis from the rival SA Long Distance Taxi Association form […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM: The appointment of Lawrence “Big Bear” Ngubane as the manager of the Durban-based Amazulu soccer team has prompted Port Elizaberth Warriors manager Budgie Byrne to proclaim that the affair is becoming “distinctly more questionable”. Byrne was referring to the two dubious points awarded to Amazulu from their drawn match against Umtata Bush Bucks. […]