TUESDAY, 9.00AM TRANSPORT Minister Mac Maharaj and Mozambican public works minister Roberto White yesterday signed the three contracts to begin construction of the R3 million toll road from Witbank to Maputo. The road will give Gauteng access to the sea 150km closer than Durban. Building will start in November and take four years. The road […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM The troubled livestock industry will commission analysis of the entire feed chain from farm lots to mills to increase efficiencies and cut costs in the face of foreign competition. The analysis follows a study by the consultancy Agrimaker Trends which warned that such sectors as livestock production, animal feed production and abattoirs are […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: THE SA Football Association is to hold an urgent meeting tomorrow with its Zairean counterpart to seek clarity on Zaire’s threat to pull out of the World Cup competition. The Zairean Leopards have been forced to play all recent matches on neutral territory due to the Zairean civil war, which has sapped their […]
TUESDAY, 3.30PM: TRANSKEI attorney-general Christo Nel today told the National Assembly’s justice committee that he dropped his bribery prosecution of casino king Sol Kerzner and former Cape Town mayor David Bloomberg because one of his key witnesses had died and another, former Transkei prime minister George Matanzima, was “belligerent, unreliable and obstreperous”. Nel said Matanzima […]
TUESDAY, 9.00AM The price of housing has fallen for the eighth successive quarter, says the latest Absa housing review. The price of housing has fallen by six percent in real terms since January 1, allowing for inflation. The weak housing market has also slowed down a rise in building costs, which grew by 4,3%, compared […]
TUESDAY, 3.30PM: TRUTH commissioner Richard Lyster said today that there is no evidence that the murder and secret burials of anti-apartheid activists in KwaZulu-Natal was the work of hit squads, but that the practice was “commonplace” among security police. “The more we investigate this sort of thing the more we find out that this was […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: SOUTH African tennis star Wayne Ferreira, plagued by a string of first-round knock-outs in international tournaments in Estoril, Madrid, Monte Carlo and Hamburg, is looking for a new racket to change his luck before the French Open in three weeks. His search has been going on for some time now, and suppliers Dunlop […]
TUESDAY, 3.30PM: A FORMER Bophuthatswana policeman today confessed to shooting dead three Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging members during violence preceeding the downfall of former Bop president Lucas Mangope on March 11 1994. In a written submission to the Tebbutt commission investigating the violence, Ontlametse Bernstein Menyatsoe, now a constable in the SA Police Service, admitted firing the […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM: THE Gauteng Lions continued their losing run with a crushing 47-9 hammering at the hands of Waikato on Saturday, all the while keeping up the haemorrhage of players to injury as stand-in skipper Ian Macdonald and centre Japie Mulder fell by the wayside. The Lions are now left with a rather threadbare side […]
MONDAY, 3.30PM: WESTERN Cape police today expressed the fear that the ongoing war between Cape Flats gangsters and People Against Gangesterism and Drugs vigilantes could lead to a majow bloodbath. Since Pagad vigilantes murdered druglord Rashaad Staggie in a gruesome lynching last August, a campaign of tit-for-tat attacks has developed between vigilantes and alleged gangsters. […]