SEVERAL hundred Kenya Polytechnic students went on the rampage in Nairobi on Tuesday in protest against examinations set by the Kenya National Examinations Council. The students said they wanted internal exams set by their own lecturers and not those of the KNEC. Running battles ensued with the police, with students stoning passing vehicles and lighting […]
ZIMBABWE were one goal up against Bafana Bafana at half-time in the President Thabo Mbeki Inauguration friendly match at FNB Stadium on Wednesday. Hurlington Shereni scored in the 24th minute in the international soccer friendly. Bafana not too ‘Chippa’ 15
President Nelson Mandela will on Thursday spend his first day in retirement on a plane winging his way to a secret holiday destination, a presidential aide said on Tuesday. The aide declined to say where the outgoing president, accompanied by his wife, Graca Machel, was headed. “He will be away for two weeks. Mrs Machel […]
ZIMBABWE’s civil servants have refused the 5% salary increase offered by government on Tuesday,y and have gone on a nationwide strike demanding a 25% rise. Zimbabwe’s labour law does not allow the civil servants to strike. The defiant workers have given the government until Friday to adequately resolve the crisis or face an indefinite strike. […]
THABO MBEKI’S inauguration as president on Wednesday was celebrated by a fly-over of three South African Airways Boeings which swooped over the festivities at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. One such Boeing delighted crowds at the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup with its fly-past over Ellis Park Stadium, but the use of three […]
BRONWYN ROBERTS, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.30pm NELSON MANDELA commemorated South Africa’s Youth Day by laying a wreath in Soweto, just hours before officially handing power to his deputy Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday. Several hundred people from the sprawling township outside Johannesburg greeted Mandela and his wife Graca with applause, cheers and whistles at the Hector […]
INAUGURATION revellers at the Union Buildings gardens in Pretoria on Wednesday afternoon settled in to enjoy some music and entertainment. Nineteen acts are lined up to perform at a post-inauguration concert, including local stars Hugh Masekela, Brenda Fassi, Johnny Clegg and Juluka and Lucky Dube, as well as international musicians Youssou N’dour and Angelique Kidjou. […]
STATE prosecutors slapped another four fraud charges against alleged cash-heist kingpin Collin Chauke’s lover, Dudu Nkosi, when she appeared in the Nelspruit district court on Monday. Nkosi now faces 14 separate fraud charges. After she was arrested with Chauke at her Nelspruit townhouse on January 19, she was charged only with harbouring a known fugitive. […]
EIGHT consortia met the Monday noon deadline for bids for the coveted third cellular phone licence. The bidders are: Telenor/Telia Consortium, NextCom Cellular, Afrozone Telecomms, Five Mobile Networks, Africa Speaks, Spatial Cellular, Cell C and Khuluma 084 Cellular. A ninth bidder, Zintatu, failed to meet the 12 noon deadline to deliver 25 copies of their […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Birmingham | Wednesday 10.10am. HERSCHELLE Gibbs spoke on Tuesday for the first time about ”that catch” offered by Steve Waugh and denied he had dropped the ball while celebrating. The South African opener was faced with a simple chance at midwicket to remove Waugh when the Australian captain was on 56 in Sunday’s […]