THE legislature sitting during which the KwaZulu-Natal premier and legislature members will be sworn in has been postponed from Tuesday to Friday. ANC spokesperson Ina Cronje said the decision was taken at a meeting involving all political parties held in Pietermaritzburg on Monday following an IFP request. Cronje said all parties agreed that the sitting […]
RUSSIA is ready to sell civilian helicopters and planes to Libya. President Boris Yeltsin in May signed a decree confirming the resumption of diplomatic and economic cooperation between the two countries, which were interrupted by UN Security Council sanctions against Tripoli. Russia will also deliver arms to Libya, where experts are already preparing the terrain […]
POP singer Brenda Fassie’s former husband Nhlanhla Mbambo appeared briefly in the Johannesburg Regional Court on Monday on charges of attempted murder and attempted car hijacking. Mbambo (31) and his two co-accused, Darius Petlele (28), and Pule Mdluli (35), were arrested on Saturday after an extended chase through the streets of Hillbrow. It is alleged […]
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 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 4.00pm MPs on Monday unanimously chose African National Congress leader Thabo Mbeki to take over from Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa. The announcement, by Constitutional Court president Arthur Chaskalson, that he had been elected unopposed was greeted with a roar of applause and a standing ovation from […]
NIGERIA’S President Olusegun Obasanjo plans to visit the scene of heavy intercommunal fighting in the troubled southern oil town of Warri on Friday. The centre of Warri, a key hub in the multimillion dollar Nigerian oil industry, has been devastated by intercommunal clashes in recent days and Obasanjo’s visit is seen as vital to hopes […]
DE BEERS Consolidated Mines, the world’s largest diamond producer, said on Thursday it has struck a two-year pay deal with the National Union of Mineworkers covering 5100 workers. The company said in a statement that it had agreed to increases of 8% per year on basic salaries, an additional 1% a year for service increments […]
ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Egypt’s Western Desert have discovered a huge cemetery, so far uncovering 200 mummies including some of the wealthy and powerful of 3000 years ago. The cemetery, which dates back to the early Greco-Roman era, is believed to contain more than 10000 mummies, making it the biggest ever uncovered. The site, 300kms southwest of […]
THE touring South African netball squad have kicked off their New Zaland tour with a 49-40 victory over the Wellington Club 49-40 in their first match in the Fisher & Paykel international series. The series is being contested by SA, New Zealand and Australia.The Proteas’ next match is against Western Flyers in Palmerston on Saturday.
ARNOLD Mentz, the Commissioner of the Southern African Tour, announced he is to leave his current position and move into a facilitation role in the structuring of a new golf development body, which will focus on the previously disadvantaged. Mentz joined as Commissioner of the SA Tour in November 1996 at the request of Johann […]