ARRIVE Alive road safety campaign said on tuesday that at least 72 road deaths have been reported on South African roads since the start of the holidays on December 1. Figures indicate that road deaths in the North West province are still the highest with 25 fatalities, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 12 and Mpumalanga with […]

THE Post Office posted operating losses of R224-million for the 1999 financial year on Friday, but said that it hopes to break even by 2001. Announcing the results chairman Max Maisela, announced said that the loss takes into account a loss of R158-million for the former TBVC states Post Offices, which were incorporated into the […]

SOUTH Africa’s Metropolitan life (Metlife), a financial services group targeting mainly black customers, on Tuesday reported a strong jump in headline earnings and predicted strong future annual earnings growth. In the year to September 30, 1999, Metlife lifted its headline earnings 37% to 75,82 cents a share. The dividend was increased to 25,50 cents from […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Washington | Tuesday 10.00pm. DEFENCE Minister Mosiuoa Lekota warned on Tuesday that a peace agreement in the Democratic Republic of Congo cannot be successfully implemented unless the United Nations plays a larger, more effective role. Lekota discussed the volatile situation in the DRC with US Defense Secretary William Cohen, who gave a tepid […]

THE Heath Special Investigating Unit has summonsed eight senior magistrates to account for alleged corruption totalling R38-million. Heath unit spokesman Guy Rich said on Sunday the magistrates from Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, the North West and the Eastern Cape, were summonsed on Friday. A further 30 chief magistrates will receive summonses in the new year, he said.

THE public service department wants a national framework agreement to be negotiated with organised labour in order to win support for “alternative service delivery mechanisms”, the Business Day reports. The paper reports the document containing the proposal — aimed at reducing government’s personnel costs — has been adopted as the basis for talks with public […]

THE Xhosa Royal Council is meeting representatives of the British High Commission in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The Xhosa Royal Council seeks to establish talks about reconciliation with the British Royal Family in relation to the seven colonial frontier wars and the Nongqawuse incident (The Xhosa National Suicide of 1857) instituted by the British. 06

A PROMINENT group of South African lawyers on Tuesday urged President Thabo Mbeki to extradite Ethiopian former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, who is accused of mass murder. The General Council of the Bar, representing 1700 advocates, said that Mengistu, who is wanted for genocide in Ethiopia, could not claim immunity from prosecution and extradition as […]

THE South African Women’s Cricket Association (SAWCA) announced on Tuesday that they will wearing the Protea national emblem when representing the country in the Women’s World Cup in New Zealand next year. The squad previously competed under the banner of the United Cricket Board. Three training camps will be held in preparation for the tournament […]

TWO senior Witbank councillors will be criminally charged for illegally using council electricity and refusing to pay their rates and taxes. Reginald Nkosi and Moses Msibi allegedly made illegal electricity connections from the council grid to their township homes earlier this year, council spokesman Pieter de Klerk said in a statement on Tuesday. The matter […]