OWN CORRESPONDENT, Phuthaditjhaba | Sunday 8.30PM. QWA QWA gave mighty Amakhosi a run in a Rothmans Cup first-leg match in Phuthaditjhaba on Sunday — but the Chiefs were rescued in the end by their two new signings, who each scored a goal. Pollen Ndlanya and Fanie Madida made their return to the Kaizer Chiefs fold […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 11.00am. THE government is proposing amendments to the Competition Bill that would see parastatals excluded from the ambit of the anti-monopoly law, according to government negotiators. According to senior government negotiator David Lewis, the strengthened bill, currently being debated by Parliament, will not apply to parastatals and companies operating with […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Sunday 8.00PM. FAMILIES of Zimbabwean soldiers killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been prevented from protesting outside President Robert Mugabe’s offices in Harare. Family members said at the weekend that Central Intelligence Organisation agents had threatened them. “We were harassed by youths at night who told us that all […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 9.15am. SOUTH African Airways on Friday morning reached an agreement with its unions, averting a strike planned for Friday afternoon. “The agreement, which has the unanimous endorsement of the negotiating teams of all unions, will be submitted immediately for discussion by the represented employees,” the South African Railway and Harbour […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Sunday 9.00PM. RWANDA will send troops into the Democratic Republic of Congo if the latest peace efforts under the leadership of South African President Nelson Mandela fail, Rwanda has warned. Rwandan Foreign Minister Anastase Gasana, in Durban to attend the Non-Aligned Movement summit, told reporters on Saturday that the genocide of […]
PAUL EJIME, Durban | Sunday 7.00PM. POLITICAL and security issues, including the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo and global disarmament, especially the situation in Asia, have so far dominated the preparatory meeting of the 12th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Durban. The ambassadors’ and senior officials’ meeting, which was opened early on […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Friday 10.30PM. FEDSURE Medway turned on the turbo when it counted most to win the 1998 Lipton Challenge Cup for the first time on Friday. Co-skippered by Pete Shaw and Steve du Toit, and crewed by Ken Venn, Bruce Keytel and Mike Clarke, the Gordon’s Bay Yacht Club team sailed […]
Ferial Haffajee Tensions in the Midi TV consortium have come to a head because major shareholders vetoed an attempt by the board’s chair to secure a highly paid job at the station. Nomazizi Mtshotshisa has lobbied hard to become full-time executive chair, with an annual salary of over R400 000. Her efforts were shot down […]
Andrew Worsdale The first movie I ever saw was Swiss Family Robinson at the Greenway cinema in Greenside and I vividly remember sleeping most of the way through it, waking up for an instant to see a giant python slithering down a tree, and then I burst into tears. Thirty-something years later I feel like […]
The massacre of species at present rates has baleful consequences for Earth, writes Tim Radford A big fish is about to swim away, forever. The barndoor skate, Raja levis, seems close to extinction. In 1951 research ships found it in 10% of all trawls of the St Pierre Bank in the Atlantic Ocean off Newfoundland. […]