THE government has granted ministers of the Church of Scientology the right to perform marriages, ending a 40-year battle by Scientologists for legalisation of their weddings. Home Affairs department spokesman Hennie Meyer said 12 Scientology ministers had been granted the right and it would be granted to others on application. The Reverend Heber Jentzsch, president […]
THE rand on Wednesday weakened back to 18-month lows touched last week, with traders citing the impact of volatility on world markets, which has triggered a steep slide in domestic shares, and political turmoil in neighboring Zimbabwe. At 12noon, the rand had firmed slightly to R6,58 to the dollar after touching R6,60 earlier in thin […]
STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Tuesday 6.30pm. ENVIRONMENTAL Affairs and Tourism Minister Valli Moosa on Tuesday defended South Africa’s proposals to amend the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) to enable it sell off stockpiled ivory, saying there is no evidence to suggest it will encourage poaching. “We are not in favour of […]
THE rand, should recover strongly by the end of 2002, which is the horizon for the government’s newly-introduced inflation targets, Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni said on Tuesday. “The inflation target is set for the period between now and the end of the calender year 2002,” he said during radio phone-in show.”So in between that […]
MINISTER of Public Enterprises Jeff Radebe announced on Tuesday that former Eskom deputy CEO Bongani Khumalo has joined the Office of the Presidency. Khumalo will join the Deputy-President’s office and will be in charge of a strategy for rural development and an HIV/Aids awareness programme.
MORE than 800 children are killed by gunfire in South Africa each year, an anti-gun activist told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday. “The equivalent of an entire school is wiped out by guns each year,” David Newby, Western Cape chairman of Gun Free South Africa, told the National Assembly’s portfolio committee on education, quoting police […]
ARMY Commanders on Tuesday started negotiations in Kampala in an attempt to find solutions to the violation of the ceasefire agreement that was launched to restore peace to the war-torn country. The negotiations are being run under the auspices of the Joint Military Commission — an umbrella body formed last year following a Zambian-mediated peace […]
MINISTERS from France and the CFA franc zone began a meeting in the Equatorial Guinea capital Malabo on Tuesday at which they will discuss French efforts to reduce debt in the zone. The meeting was opened by Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema who called on France to help its African partners in the zone. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Braamfontein | Tuesday 7.15pm BLACK journalists control the executive editorial decision-making of the majority of mainstream white-owned and controlled newspapers and the news services of both the public and private commercial broadcasters, the South African Human Rights Commission heard on Tuesday. Making a submission into the HRC’s public hearings on racism, which resumed […]
THE conflict between Chelsea and the Nigerian Football Association seems to have been resolved after the club won its battle to play Celstine Babayaro in Wednesday’s crunch Champions Cup quarterfinal against Barcelona, despite Babayaro having to play for his country in a World Cup qualifier over the weekend. Chelsea had to obtain permission from the […]