OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Thursday 11.00PM. ZIMBABWEAN soldiers have started to return home from the Democratic Republic of Congo — in body bags. The state-controlled media on Thursday reported that two Zimbabwean soldiers had been killed, three were missing and 15 injured following a rebel attack on Kinshasa, the DRC capital city, this week. However […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 10.00pm. A LOBBY of labour, sport and business groups on Thursday threatened to apply for an urgent court order forcing Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma to withdraw the Tobacco Products Control Amendments Bill because they say it is unconstitutional. The Bill is due to be tabled in Parliament on Monday. The […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kigali | Thursday 9.00PM. FIGHTING continued in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital, Kinshasa, on Thursday after rebel forces determined to topple President Laurent Kabila infiltrated the city. The allied forces backing Kabila appear to have maintained a hold on the city one day after fierce artillery battles broke out in the eastern […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 9.00pm. DALY’S Insurance sailed superbly on the fifth day of the Lipton Challenge Cup in Algoa Bay on Thursday, scoring their first victory and the overall lead going into the final day on Friday. In their eagerness to get off to a good start on Thursday the entire fleet was […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 8.30pm. THREE people have been detained for questioning in connection with Tuesday night’s bombing at Planet Hollywood in Cape Town in which one person died and 27 were injured. Detective-Superintendent John Sterrenberg told the eM&G that police, responding to an anonymous tip-off, detained a man and two women as […]
SARAH BULLEN in Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.00pm. SOUTH Africa is experiencing a slowdown in economic activity, with economic growth weak and the current indicator of employment in the formal sectors of the economy having declined to its lowest level in nearly twenty years, was the word from Reserve Bank governor Chris Stals on Tuesday. Announcing […]
SARAH BULLEN in Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.30pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange lost 8% of its value this morning in a massive crash — but recovered somewhat in the late afternoon to close with losses of 6,21% — still one of the year’s largest falls. At midday all indices had taken some of their worst falls […]
SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.00pm. THE inflation rate — the annual rate of change in the Consumer Price Index — was 6,6% at July 1998, the latest figures from the Central Statistical Services released on Tuesday indicate. This rate is 1,4 percentage points higher than the annual rate of 5,2% calculated in June, largely […]
SARAH BULLEN in Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.00pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange had lost 8% of its value by 3.50pm on Wednesday, with shares gaining downward momentum by the minute as the fall assumes crash dimensions. All indices have taken some of their worst falls on record, with the financial index plunging 8,81% (868 points) and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Umtata | Tuesday 9.30pm. A TRUTH and Reconciliation Commission judge in Umtata, Transkei on Tuesday issued a subpoena against former Transkei president Kaizer Matanzima for failing to appear before the TRC’s amnesty committee hearing into the murder of former University of Transkei student Batandwa Ndondo. Ndondo was shot and killed by police in […]