FRIDAY, 8.00AM NELSON MANDELA has sent President Mobutu Sese Seko a proposal that he hand over power to a transitional authority, and given him until Monday to respond. Mandela said he was confident of a resolution of the Zaire war, after two hours of talks with rebel leader Laurent Kabila in Cape Town. Neither Kabila […]
WEDNESDAY, 6.00PM FORMER president FW De Klerk said he was shocked to learn that torture was widely used by South African police under his government: “I deny there was toleration of any such practice,” he told the Truth Commission on Wednesday. TRC investigations director Glen Goosen told De Klerk that the commission had evidence of […]
TUESDAY, 8.30AM THE European Union will today launch an information technology programme designed to encourage partnerships between European and South African technology businesses, to draw university expertise into business and to assist small technology businesses. Called Esprit, the programme provides EU money to fund European members participating in joint projects. BUSINESS BRIEFS SA FINANCIAL OVERVIEW […]
WEDNESDAY, 9.30AM: INJURY has taken its toll on the Northern Transvaal side, facing a key Super 12 match against Free State at Loftus Versfeld on Friday night. Scrumhalf Joost van der Westhuizen will stand in as captain in place of Ruben Kruger, and Jannie Brooks will replace Adriaan Richter, who was injured at last weekend’s […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.00AM: ORLANDO Pirates kept their third spot in the Premier Soccer League log just one point behind Kaizer Chiefs, when they beat Vaal Professionals 1-0 in their clash at the Iscor stadium near Sebokeng Tuesday night. There was no score at half-time, and the only goal came in the 61st minute, from Bucs’ striker […]
WEDNESDAY, 3.00PM SOME 1 200 soldiers were on standby during the 1994 Zulu march on Johannesburg, but police chose not to use them because soldiers are trained to fight, not to control crowds. Police Senior-Superintendent Kobus Peche told the Shell House inquest in Johannesburg on Wednesday, “Soldiers use live ammunition and not rubber bullets and […]
WEDNESDAY, 8.30AM The troubled Transnet communications service Transtel Cellular, which lost R83m in the year to March, is to be sold to MTN, and its staff either retrenched or redeployed inside Transnet. A Transnet spokesman said the deal had been canvassed with government and labour, who agreed that the losses — mainly due to bad […]
WEDNESDAY, 6.00PM RACIAL clashes have blown up at a Pretoria high school, closed since Tuesday after brawling when two black pupils allegedly insulted a white teacher. White pupils at Elandspoort High School in Pretoria West were sent home at 10.00am this morning after renewed fighting, and while principal Hennie Breedt addressed the black pupils. The […]
WEDNESDAY, 8.30AM A DELEGATION of top executives from the $76billion a year Korean multinationl Daewoo arrived in South Africa to look at new investments of up to more than R1,2 billion. But first, the delegation wants a meeting with government to discuss tax breaks and other incentives for investing here. The company has been offered […]
WEDNESDAY, 6.00PM: VIOLENCE erupted again in the Groblersdal area on Tuesday night, as demonstrators set fire to a truck and to the local ANC offices, in continued protests demanding that the area to be included in Mpumalanga Province. Despite the tesnions, Constitutional Affairs Minister Valli Moosa failed to arrive to address a crowd of 15 […]