MONDAY, 5.00PM The man who blew the lid off corruption in Mpumalanga’s safety and security deparment, principal traffic inspector John Muller, stands to lose his house after being served with a summons for failing to pay his bond. The bond payments, which were previously made by the traffic department, were stopped after traffic director Henry […]
MONDAY, 2.00PM: JOMO COSMOS beat Dynamos of Zimbabwe 2-0 at the PAM Brink Stadium on Saturday, putting them in the quarterfinals of the African Cup Winners’ Cup with a 3-2 aggregate. Mozambican import Nuro Taulibudine scored the first goal just before half time off a free kick, and the second goal came in the last […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM THE Small Business Development Corporation has increased its operating capital available for lending by 60% to more than R330-million for the financial year to March 31 1998. The increase comes as a result of the larger average size of business loans being awarded by the corporation since it stopped lending to micro enterprises […]
MONDAY, 3.00PM: THE United Cricket Board has named the players to be offered contracts for the next season, to represent South Africa over 1997/1998. The team will tour to Pakistan, England and Australia, and in return Pakistan and Sri Lanka will visit South Africa. The players are: Hansie Cronje, Brian McMillan, David Richardson, Fanie de […]
NIGERIA BAN ON UK PLANES NIGERIA has banned all British aircraft from its airspace. No reason has been given for the ban, but it follows the British government’s refusal to renew the Nigeria Airways permit to operate its lucrative Lagos-London route. Nigeria Airways was suspended last year from flying to London because its flights did […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM GOVERNMENT’S financial team has received a new blow with the resignation of Hannes Smit, the director general of state expenditure, which comes hard on the heels of last week’s announcement that SA Revenue Service CEO Piet Liebenberg had resigned. Smit announced on Friday that he will not renew his service contract when it […]
MONDAY, 4.00PM INTRUDERS at the weekend broke into the Pretoria offices of the Gender Commission and sprayed an office with a white “poison-like” substance, commissioner Thenjiwe Mtintso said on Monday morning. Mtintso said when she arrived at her office after the weekend, she noticed the door had been forced open. “My whole office was covered […]
MONDAY, 2.00PM: ORLANDO PIRATES won the second leg of their clash against Caps United of Zimbabwe 1-0 yesterday, and their 3-1 aggregate overall takes them through to the quarterfinals of the African Champions Cup. Caps tried hard in the first half, almost scoring twice — once when Morgan Nkatazo missed the net by inches with […]
herStoriA deputy editor DELIA ROTHNIE-JONES explores the rewards of literary prizes THE recent death of the CNA Literary Award means that another window of opportunity for writers has been boarded up. Soon we shall be left only with peep-holes into our country’s soul. Faced with this withering of literary activity, we are forced to ask […]
IF the writing was not on the wall for the Mobutu Sese Seko regime before, it was there last week in a cable sent to Washington by the United States embassy in Kinshasa. It reported that the newly appointed prime minister of Zaire, General Likulia Bolongo was preparing for “a speedy departure from Kinshasa with […]