SOUTH Africa could send a first contingent of 120 troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as early as June 17 as part of a United Nations peacekeeping force. The foreign ministry said the government is also considering a UN request to send a second contingent of South African troops to Kisangani in the […]
AN explosion rocked the South African office of US software giant Microsoft on Friday, shattering windows but causing no injuries. “There was an explosion at around 5am this morning. Nobody was hurt,” Terry Annecke, marketing director for Microsoft’s South African operations said. She said the blast was caused by an unidentified device and occurred in […]
A GROUP of blacks strangled, beat and kicked a defenceless white man to death in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, the Commercial Farmers Union said on Friday. The unprovoked attack on Wednesday took place in a built up residential area of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second biggest city, in front of bystanders waiting for transport into some of the city’s […]
IRICHELLE Duran, daughter of legendary fighter Roberto Duran, was forced again to postpone her professional boxing debut. Duran withdrew from Friday night’s boxing bill, headlined by Zolani Petelo’s fifth defence of his IBF straw-weight world title against Mickey Cantwell in Kent because of illness. On a visit to South Africa last week to see her […]
ANDY COLQUHOUN, Cape Town | Friday 11.15am. A BLACK sports administrator who threatened the boycott of South African rugby tours two years ago has been appointed manager of the Springboks for the two-Test series against England and one-off match against Canada this month. Gideon Sam, vice-president of South Africa’s National Sports Council (NSC), will carry […]
NEAL COLLINS, Johannesburg | Friday 8.00am. SOUTH African defender Mark Fish is likely to move back to England’s premier soccer league soon in a big-money move to newly promoted Manchester City or Charlton. Fish, who retired from international football earlier this year after a row with coach Trott Moloto and team-mates over alleged racism, has […]
David Macfarlane and Glenda Daniels The University of the Witwatersrand faces a massive showdown today as its council for the first time considers the most substantial objections by workers, the student movement and some academics to restructuring. At the same time, the Mail & Guardian has been told by a senior academic, Wits management is […]
Glenda Daniels If the newly formed Millennium Council, a bilateral between labour and business, modelled on the successful Irish model, works, it would be great for South Africa. Now all we need is the economic growth that followed the formation of the Irish counterpart. The Irish bilateral, where social dialogue between business and labour yielded […]
lottery cash Barry Streek More than 8E000 NGOs have been registered in terms of the Non-profit Organisations Act, Minister of Welfare and Population Development Zola Skweyiya has disclosed. This is far short of his own department’s estimate of between 45E000 and 80E000 non- profit organisations (NPOs) in South Africa, but it is a significant achievement […]