VETERAN human rights campaigner Ellen Khuzwayo, who was admitted to hospital after collapsing on election day last week, was on Friday still “very ill” and being assessed on a 24-hour basis. Khuzwayo, (84) who was admitted to the Tshepo Themba Hospital in Dobsonville, Soweto, is undergoing a series of tests to ascertain the nature of […]
AUTHORITIES in Cote d’Ivoire say the on-going privatisation of government corporations earned the state some 280-billion CFA francs. Some 80 loss-making corporations were identified for Privatisation under the late President Felix Houphouet-Boingy in 1991. The government said at the weekend that 54 companies out of the lot had been privatised by 31 December 1998. Privatised […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Leeds | Sunday 8.00pm. STEVE Waugh played yet another masterful innings to lead Australia into the semi-finals of the World Cup on Sunday, scoring an unbeaten 120 as his team reached 272 for five to beat South Africa by five wickets in a Headingley thriller. The result means the two rivals will meet […]
THE South African government welcomed the agreement reached yesterday to cease hostilities in Yugoslavia, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. It also welcomed the adoption of the UN Security Council resolution on Kosovo and the decision to resort to political efforts to resolve the crisis.
FIFTEEN southern African and Indian Ocean island countries on Friday adopted a health cooperation plan for disease prevention and control. The World Health Organisation said the “health cooperation framework and action plan” was agreed upon at the end of a five-day meeting in Harare of the countries’ health and interior ministers. The WHO said the […]
CROATION president Franjo Tudjman is to leave next Wednesday for a two-day visit to South Africa for the inauguration of incoming president Thabo Mbeki, Tudjman’s office said on Friday, quoted by HINA news agency. Tudjman and his delegation are also expected to meet representatives of the Croatian community in Johannesburg and Cape Town, the same […]
EMILIA SITHOLE, Johannesburg | Friday 2.20pm NEW Africa Investments Ltd on Thursday allowed an option to take a major stake in publishers CTP and Caxton to lapse, but received a handsome consolation prize of almost R1-billion in cash. Shares in South Africa’s foremost black-owned firm shrugged off the news it had received R994-million from Johnnies […]
SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Thursday 8.00pm JAY NAIDOO has quit as Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting and will be leaving parliamentary politics at the end of his current term of office, the African National Congress announced on Thursday. The ANC said in a statement that Naidoo is leaving active political life due to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 12noon SENIOR Inkatha Freedom Party official Philip Powell is under investigation for treason. The probe follows Powell’s exposure last month of a huge cache of explosives and ammunition in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Powell led police to seven tons of heavy weaponry and ammunition near the IFP stronghold of Ulundi. The arsenal […]
SOUTH Africa were still favourities Australia’s odds to win the World Cup were cut to 5-2 from 3-1 following their 44-run win over Zimbabwe on Wednesday. But bookmakers William Hill still made Australia only third favourites to win the tournament which ends on June 20. Latest odds: 6-4 South Africa 9-4 Pakistan 5-2 Australia 12-1 […]