Yearly Archives: 1999

LAND Bank MD Helena Dolny has been exonerated on allegations corruption, racism and nepotism. The allegations were first made by former Land Bank board chairman Bonile Jack, in a report to the land affairs and agriculture now widely regarded as being motivated by sour grapes. Jack’s accusations were investigated by an independent commission of inquiry, […]

EMSIE FERRIERA, Johannesburg | Tuesday 8.30pm JUSTICE Minister Penuell Maduna on Tuesday emerged unbowed from an emergency meeting with President Thabo Mbeki where he was expected to be censured for a tirade against the country’s top judges. The minister on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Constitutional Court, the highest in the land, accusing […]

PETER DICKSON, East London | Wednesday 11.00m. CIVIL servants in the Eastern Cape are paying as little as R7,50 a month to rent state-owned houses. Eastern Cape legislators warned on Tuesday the state needs to charge market-related rentals for government properties to offset maintenance costs alone. The call follows the release by Bisho’s Public Works […]

THE long-awaited launch of electronic settlement on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange is on track for next month, the bourse said on Friday. Its president Russell Loubser announced the first leg of the Share Transactions Totally Electronic (Strate) project will go live at the end of September when two illiquid, as yet unnamed, shares will move […]

South Africa’s intermediary role in brokering a ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of Congo has prompted Burundi to request similar assistance to end six years of civil war that has claimed more than 250000 lives. Burundi’s president, Pierre Buyoya at the weekend met president Thabo Mbeki to ask Pretoria to play “an active role” in […]

SOUTH Africa’s Amanda Coetzer was unceremoniously ejected from the US Open on Monday. Coetzer had been seeded sixth. Irina Spirlea of Romania, best known for bumping Venus Williams on a changeover in the 1997 U.S. semifinals, upset Coetzer in straight sets 6-1, 7-5. Spirlea made 31 unforced errors to 28 for Coetzer, but had 10 […]

THE Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on Tuesday granted the Eikenhof three the right to have their case reopened. Siphiwe James Bholo, Sipho Samuel Gavin and Boy Titi Ndweni were convicted by Judge DJ Curlewis in the Heidelberg circuit court in 1994. They received death sentences for the murders of Mrs Zandra Mitchley, her […]

ALLEGED Capital Park serial killer Samuel Sidyno on Tuesday pleaded not guilty in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court to seven charges of murder. The charges relate to the discovery of six bodies, and the pointing out of a seventh by Sidyno, on Capitol Hill and in the Magaliesberg, in Pretoria in December 1998 and January this […]

FORMER National Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) unionist, Phillip Dexter, was last week appointed National Economic Development and Labour Council’s (Nedlac) executive director. Dexter is currently executive chair of Union Alliance Holdings and is a non-executive director of Nehawu Investment Company. He was elected an ANC MP in 1994 and served on the labour, […]

PLATINUM giant Impala Platinum (Implats) is well placed to benefit from rising platinum prices and internal cost controls, Implats CEO Steve Kearney said on Tuesday. The firm lifted platinum output 1% to 1,065-million ounces in the 12 months to June, with operating costs rising below the rate of inflation, by 4,3% to R2 471/oz. Costs […]