APARTHEID chemical warfare expert Wouter Basson held freeze-dried HIV-infected blood and a cocktail of poisons and bacteria to kill or sicken opponents of the white regime, a witness told his trial on Wednesday. Bacteriologist Mike Odendaal said he collected lethal substances while working at Roodeplaat Research Laboratories outside Pretoria, a front company for the apartheid […]
INDUSTRIAL group Barlow intends spend R3-billion on acquisitions as part of a worldwide expansion programme, the Business Day reports. Barlow has also won a 90-million deal with the British military to repair and maintain forklift trucks over 10 years. According to the paper the group has been on the acquisition trail over the past six […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 1.45pm ALI Bacher is likely to be the first witness called by the South African inquiry into the Hansie Cronje affair, an official said on Wednesday. “He used to open the batting in his playing days, so we may as well start with him here,” the secretary of the […]
AJAX Cape Town are celebrating their successful debut season in the PSL by signing a Brazilian player and putting seven players on the transfer list. Ajax finished a solid fourth on the Premier Soccer League log and look to be upward-bound next season after securing the services of Brazilian striker Rodrigo Gomes of Aracatuba. The […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 10.20am ASHLEY Mallett, a former Australian Test off-spinner who acted as an advisor for South Africa on its 1997-98 tour of Australia has raised even more suspiscion about Hansie Cronje and match fixing. Mallett, a spin-bowling advisor during the Proteas tour, has told South African cricket authorities of his […]
LUCIA MUTIKANI, Pretoria | Wednesday 1.00pm. PRODUCER prices rose at their highest rate in nearly five years in April, figures released on Wednesday show, due in large part to rising domestic prices. Statistics South Africa said recent petrol price hikes have largely been behind the increase. Producer costs rose 10,1% year-on-year, after an 8,6% increase […]
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A REPORT by national automobile group Naamsa, says that the sales of passenger cars in South Africa increased by 27,1% to 55385 units in first quarter of this year. Commercial vehicle sales for the same period increased by 10,2% to 27894 units over the first quarter of 1999. Heavy commercials were six percent down on […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 4.15pm. SPORTS Minister Ngconde Balfour has sided with the South African men’s hockey team in its battle against the National Olympic Committee of South Africa to get to the Sydney Games. Balfour spoke in Parliament on the eve of the decision by the International Olympic Committee whether to uphold […]
A BAN on women’s boxing in South Africa will be overturned by legislation to be introduced later this year, Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour said on Tuesday. The ban, effected by a 1954 law, was contrary to South Africa’s post-apartheid constitution which rules against discrimination in all spheres of life, Balfour said in parliament. “Our constitution […]