PRESIDENT Mbeki’s office has begun advertising key positions, including that of presidential spokesperson. The post of chief director of communication will pay a basic R208326 for a person with “high-level managerial, communication and negotiation skills”, whose duties will include researching and writing speeches for the president. Mbeki’s current spokesperson, Ronnie Mamoepa, who is expected to […]
MONDAY, 6.30PM: THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange started the week on its back foot on Monday, with the all share index dropping 3% in early trade. All eyes were on the interest rate, which, floated by the Reserve Bank on Friday, rose further to 23,985% from 20,377% on Monday prompting fears of further bank prime rate […]
MONDAY, 8.00AM: TWO Bafana Bafana players, Brendan Augustine and Naughty Mokoena, have been sent home after going nightclubbing in the early hours of Sunday morning. And coach Philippe Troussier has threatened to quit once again, saying: “I have received a message from South Africa that they don’t want a foreign coach. Perhaps it is time […]
THE Estcourt Magistrate’s Court on Monday issued a warrant of arrest for former Miss South Africa Kerishnie Naicker after she failed to appear before the court for an alleged traffic offence. She was allegedly caught driving at 190km per hour near the town in March. The magistrate ordered that the execution of the warrant be […]
FIFTEEN African National Congress Youth League members picketed the entrance of the Western Cape legislature building in Cape Town on Monday, demanding the formation of a provincial youth commission. ANCYL provincial deputy chairperson Goodenough Kodwa said he expected large number of their supporters to join them later on Monday afternoon. Earlier on Monday, ANCYL chairperson […]
LIBYAN leader Muammar Gadaffi wrapped up a three day visit to Sudan with an appeal to Sudanese opponents abroad to come back home. “I am ready to guarantee their safe return,” he told Sudanese students at a meeting just before heading for the airport for his flight home. “Force cannot solve any problem and all […]
FORMER Mpumalanga MEC for environmental affairs, Luckson Mathebula, and his girlfriend were denied bail in the Mhala Regional Court in Bushbuckridge on Friday for the alleged murder of Mathebula’s estranged wife. Northern Province police spokesman Senior Superintendent Phuti Setati said Mathebula and 34-year-old Pretty Gama — an employee of Coca-Cola in Nelspruit — will be […]
FRED CHELA & DAN LANGEVELDT, Blantyre | Monday 4.00pm. POST-election violence which erupted in Malawi’s opposition stronghold in the north of the country on Friday has left at least one person dead and ten mosques razed to the ground, police and the Muslim Association of Malawi said on Monday. The violence began in the northern […]
PREPARATIONS for the Southern African Development Community heads of state summit in Lusaka on June 26 are on course, said Zambian foreign affairs spokesman Kimbala Meleka on Monday. Meleka confirmed that SADC defence and foreign ministers are expected to begin arriving in Lusaka from Tuesday to begin finalising the summit’s agenda on Wednesday. Ministers from […]
THREE bandits suspected of attacking six American tourists in the world-famous Maasai Mara Game Reserve in southwest Kenya this week appeared in court on Saturday and admitted the charge. The suspects, arrested by Kenyan security forces early Saturday in a bush den on the Kenyan-Tanzanian border were remanded in custody. Police said that the three […]