TUESDAY, 11.00AM: KAIZER CHIEFS management is having a rethink about Amakhosi’s participation in the African Caf Cup competition, and whether to go ahead with a planned tour of China in the last week of June. Chiefs’ coach Jeff Butler and the club directors will meet on Tuesday to discuss how financially viable it will be […]
TUESDAY, 8.00AM THE Pan Africanist Congress cancelled its June 16 commemorative rally in Khayelitsha, Cape Town yesterday, after two rival factions of the party came to blows. Supporters of axed PAC president Clarence Makwetu refused to allow deputy secretary general Ike mafole to speak, on the grounds that he had not been elected constitutionally. In […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: SMILING widely for the last five kilometres, it was victory at last for Charl Mattheus who won the down-run Comrades Marathon yesterday, with a time of 5 hours, 28minutes and 37 seconds. The last time Mattheus broke the tape at the finish line was on the up-run in 1992, when he was disqualified […]
TUESDAY, 4.00PM AFRIKANER Weerstandsbeweging leader Eugene Terre’Blanche was on Tuesday sentenced in the Potchefstroom Regional Court to an effective six years in jail for attempted murder and assault. Terre’Blanche was last month found guilty of attempted murder after he knocked down an employee, Paul Motsibi, and beat him with a pipe in March 1996, apparently […]
TUESDAY, 4.00PM SOUTHERN African nations calling for a lifting of the ban on the ivory trade at the summit of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Harare have tabled a last-minute compromise proposal in which Western donors will buy out all national ivory stockpiles to fund elephant conservation in Africa. South African […]
MONDAY, 4.30PM STEVE Biko’s widow Ntsiki and brother Khaya listened impassively on Tuesday as a doctor apologised to them for the failure of his colleagues to treat the activist’s head injuries before his death in police custody in 1977. Presenting to a special truth commission hearing on the medical profession’s role in apartheid human rights […]
TUESDAY, 12.00NOON DAYS before Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz returns from Beijing with newly signed agreements on SAA flying rights and diplomatic relations, the trade and industry department has announced stiff new protection quotas on imported shoes, especially those from China. The restrictions, which apply to all non-World Trade Organsiation members, are to be gazetted within […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: SIX South African hockey players who played in the four-nations trophy tournament against England in Amsterdam on Sunday have been approached by Dutch club recruiters this week. Top Dutch clubs Bloemendall and HGC — currently the European champions — have shown interest in SA’s Greg Clark and top goalscorer Greg Nicol. SCHS Eindhoven […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: THE International Labour Organisation in Geneva has found four African countries — Nigeria, Swaziland and Morocco and Sudan — guilty of violating trade union and freedom of association rights. A formal motion of condemnation will be passed at the ILO’s annual conference on Thursday this week. Swaziland has been singled out for suspending […]
TUESDAY, 12.00NOON AT least half of SA’s pharmacies, represented by United SA Pharmaceuticals, have precipitated a furore by announcing they will introduce a R20,90 dispensing fee, raising the ire of medical aid schemes, who believe the move will lead to a 17% increase in average medicine costs, and lead to patients paying cash for prescription […]