AFRIKANER Weerstandsbeweging leader Eugene Terre’Blanche and one of his generals, Piet “Skiet” Rudolph, have been granted amnesty for their part in the siege of Ventersdorp in which three people died, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee confirmed on Monday. Beeld reports that Terre’Blanche was also granted amnesty for two other incidents: the tarring and […]
THREE-YEAR-OLD Chantine Veldsman, daughter of slain The Firm gang leader Glen Khan, died late on Monday night after she was shot in the head by a masked gunman on Saturday. Hospital staff turned off Veldsman’s life support machine and declared her brain dead at 9pm. On Saturday a gunman walked up to Veldsman who was […]
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 […]
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 […]
LIBYAN leader Moamer Kadhafi visited Soweto on Tuesday and pledged to work for African peace and unity. He said he would strive to attain peaceful solutions to crises afflicting the African continent, in “Sierra Leone, Angola and such countries”. Kadhafi, who arrived in South Africa on Sunday, will be among the guests at president-elect Thabo […]
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 […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM: THE IRISH rugby side silenced their critics when they produced some sparkling rugby at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein, restricting the Springboks to a 37-13 victory margin. The South Africans started brilliantly, with right wing Stefan Terblanche scoring the first of his four tries on debut barely four minutes into the match. […]
MONDAY, 5.30PM: THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange was on the defensive on Monday, with a quiet market holding its breath for developments from Asia, the New York stock exchange, and moves in the local repo rate. Barnard, Jacobs, Mellet dealer Echardt van der Hoven said the market started off on a weak footing, with the Hong […]
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 […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH AFRICAN opener Gary Kirsten scored his second half-century, to add to two centuries, in his sixth first-class innings on tour in England on the final day of the three-day match against Sussex at Arundel. The match was interrupted by intermittent rain, resulting in the abandonment of the match before the final session […]