MONDAY, 11.00AM: LOG leaders Manning Rangers reinforced their position at the top of the League yesterday with a 4-0 walkover of bottom-of-the-table Witbank Aces on Aces’ home turf at KwaGuqa, ending all hopes that Aces might avoid relegation. Aces started the game fast and dominated play, but several chances were blown by their lack of […]
MONDAY, 3.30PM: SAFETY and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi today summoned the national and provincial police commissioners and safety and security MECs to an urgent meeting in Pretoria on Wednesday to discuss the deteriorating crime situation in the country. News of the meeting emerged at a meeting today of the gauteng legislature’s standing committee on safety […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM: ORLANDO Pirates showed their class yesterday when they fought from behind to win 2-1 against Zimbabwean champion side Caps United in the second round of the African Champions’ League at the National Sports Stadium in Harare. Underdogs United came out in fighting form and grabbed immediate control with a 10th minute goal by […]
MONDAY, 9.00AM ECONOMISTS reacted positively to Reserve Bank figures released at the weekend which showed that foreign exchange reserves had risen to R14,4-billion at the end of April, up 9,9% from the end of March. More details, including the breakdown between gold and forex will only be made available this Thursday. But the bank said […]
MONDAY, 9.00AM TREVOR MANUEL’S finance department has approached the major commercial banks for their views on the lifting of exchange controls and on capital requirements. The department wants commercial banks to buy and sell government bonds rather than the Reserve Bank, but has set conditions, such as a willingness by the banks to buy and […]
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. […]
MONDAY, 5.30PM: THE Moldenhauer commission of inquiry into irregularly issued drivers’ licences in Mpumalanga today heard that traffic officers accused of issuing as many as 300 fraudulent drivers’ licences a day at the Kabokweni testing station burnt down the centre in 1995 to destroy documentary evidence of their activities. Mpumalanga chief traffic inspector Francois Coombs […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM AIR ZIMBABWE finally has a new chief executive from today, a year after the previous CE was fired by Robert Mugabe. Irish airline expert Brendon Donohoe, who has worked previously in Africa, takes over for two years following an agreement reached between the troubled national airline and Air Consult International (ACI) of Dublin, […]
The IBA’s 120-strong staff have issued a unanimous vote of no confidence in their boss Harris Gxaweni, reports Mungo Soggot THE Independent Broadcasting Authority’s (IBA) top officials face sacking chief executive officer Harris Gxaweni or defying the rest of their staff by keeping him. The authority’s staff representative committee, speaking for 120 staff members, this […]