MONDAY, 1.30AM: FOR months now the South African Grain Information Services (Sagis) and the National Maize Producers Organisation (Nampo) have been releasing conflicting information about the size and pricing of South Africa’s maize crop, information on which the South African Futures Exchange’s agricultural division is basing its maize futures trade. This continual haggling begs the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 12.20pm. DEMOCRATIC PARTY leader and new head of the official opposition Tony Leon took over New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk’s seat in the National Assembly on Monday at the start of the swearing-in of the 400 MPs returned in the June 2 poll. United Democratic Movement leader […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH AFRICAN heavyweight boxer Corrie Sanders held onto his WBU title at the Mohegan Sun in Conneticut when he beat Bobby Czyz by a technical knockout in the second round of their fight on Saturday morning. Sanders flattened Czyz three times in the first round, and put him down in the second round […]
TWENTY Sudanese travellers have died of thirst in the Libyan desert in recent days, the Akhbar al-Youm daily reported on Tuesday. Thirteen people died after the truck they were travelling in towards neighboring Libya broke down near the border a few days ago. The other 52 people who had been travelling with them managed to […]
DEPUTY Speaker Baleka Mbete was on Monday re-elected for a second five-year term, weathering a challenge from the Democratic Party — the first in its role as official opposition — in which the party nominated its own candidate for the post. Mbete had already been nominated by fellow African National Congress MP Bertha Gxowa, when […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Frankfurt | Monday 11.20am FINANCE ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrial nations agreed on Saturday on the sale of 10-million ounces of IMF gold to finance debt reduction for the world’s poorest countries. “There will be a very limited amount of gold sales, 10-million ounces,” German Finance Minister Hans Eichel told […]
PAN Africanist Congress secretary general Ngila Muendane told SABC TV news on Wednesday that he was unaware of his apparent removal from the party’s National Assembly list. Muendane told the station: “I don’t know what is happening … I’m just hearing it from you.” He had been number three on the party’s parliamentary list, but […]
THE South African National Civic Organisation and the Congress of South African Trade Unions in the Eastern Cape are to team up to mobilise support against the construction of a casino at the Marina Glen site. Sanco spokesperson Benson Hobo says Gompo Leisure, the successful bidders for an East London casino licence, must face the […]
THE African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party on Thursday agreed to form a coalition government in KwaZulu-Natal. In a joint statement the parties said that they commit themselves to a need for the formation of a coalition government between the ANC and IFP. They said they hope “to finalise the talks in due […]
AT least 57 more people have died as an outbreak of a virulent strain of highland malaria spreads in southwestern Kenya. A clinical officer at Kilkoris government hospital, says another 30000 people have been affected by the disease in the remote Transmara district, about 240 kms west of Nairobi. A reporter who visited the region […]