THURSDAY, 8.00AM DEFENCE MINISTER Joe Modise put on a spectacular fireworks display for delegates to a world anti-landmine conference, detonating the first of 4 700 mines at the remote Alkantpan army base in the Northern Cape. South Africa will destroy some R39-million worth of landmines in 18 more explosions over a five-month period ending in […]
THURSDAY, 10.30AM MINERAL and Energy Affairs Minister on Wednesday detailed far-reaching plans to restructure the energy, mining and petroleum industries, including consolidating Central Energy Fund companies and other state assets into a major public energy company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchenge. In his maiden budget speech to Parliament, Maduna said the new energy company […]
The West owes the region a debt of support "not as a question of charity, but because we are entitled to it," says Mandela.
THURSDAY, 2.30PM The moratorium on new police recruitment, in place since August 1994, has been suspended with immediate effect, Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi announced on Thursday. Mufamadi said an additional 5 250 new police officers and civilians will be appointed over the next three months, at a cost of R150-million. Mufamadi said the […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM The latest Global Competitiveness Report compiled by the World Economic Forum shows South Africa at 44th of the 53 countries listed, one place lower down the list than last year’s rating. New entry to the list, the Slovak Republic, entered at 35th position, which pushed SA down. There were three other newcomers to […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM The government on Tuesday released its plans for the long-awaited National Development Agency and gave details about the transformation of the Industrial Development Trust into a development implementation agnecy. Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said Cabinet had recently adopted the recommendations of the National Development Agency advisory committee, including that the […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: TIMES of Swaziland manager Paul Loffler has been summoned to the royal court today for what he suspects will a “thorough bollocking” for his newspaper’s story that King Mswati owed the Mbabane City Council $6 400 in unpaid rates. Loffler said he was likely to face between 30 and 40 of the King’s […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.00AM: SOUTH AFRICAN golfing hero Ernie Els will break his commitment to the Dunlop Phoenix tournament in Japan for the second year running, to represent South Africa in the World Cup of Golf at Kiawah Island in the United States. Els won the 1996 World Cup in partnership with Wayne Westner in Somerset West, […]
SERBIA JUDGES TWO African judges have been appointed to the international tribunal into war crimes in Bosnia and Serbia. They are Fouad Riad of Egypt and Florence Mumba of Zambia, chosen to join the tribunal along with nine other judges in the UN General Assembly Tuesday. ANGOLA PEACE NEEDS MONEY UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has […]
WEDNESDAY, 4.30PM The senate of the University of South Africa on Tuesday voted to suspend university management under rector Professor Marinus Wiechers and to set up an interim management board to run the university. In order for the proposal to become reality, it has still to be passed by the university council, its highest decision-making […]