OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.00am. THE Beka provident fund was ordered by the Pension Funds adjudicator on Tuesday to change its rules to accommodate homosexual relationships, and to give a pension to the partner of one of its deceased members. The Gay and Lesbian Legal Advice Centre, which has been representing the new beneficiary, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cairo | Tuesday 5.00pm. FIFA President Joseph Blatter urged Africa to pull behind one of its two national candidates to give the continent a good shot at hosting the World Cup in 2006. “To have a real chance… Africa should make sure that there will be only one candidate from Africa,” Blatter said […]
JAMES BRYANT, Edgbaston | Tuesday 12.25pm WORLD Cup favourites South Africa will receive a simple message from Hansie Cronje before their second-round clash with New Zealand here on Thursday — let’s try and win without Lance Klusener’s help for a change. The South Africans, fresh from beating main tournament rivals Pakistan, can make sure of […]
MORE than 60 people are feared drowned after their overloaded boat sank on Ghana’s sprawling Volta Lake at the weekend, police in Accra said on Tuesday. The accident happened some 500km northeast of the capital. Some 25 passengers who survived and swam to safety told police that the boat, which sank in high winds on […]
NIGERIA’S national assembly is set to remove repressive laws from the country’s statute books, a top official said on Tuesday. “We are going to set up a committee to look into the laws and fish out those ones that you and I regard as being obnoxious,” Senate President Evans Enwerem told reporters here. Enwerem said […]
THE Mpumalanga education department is expected to announce the results of its probe into last year’s matric results scandal later on Thursday. There has been no word yet on whether any officials will be dismissed. The claimed pass rate was 72%, but the SA Certification Council dropped it to 52%, and Judge Eberhard Bertelsmann found […]
JAMES BRYANT, Edgbaston | Wednesday 5.35pm TOURNAMENT favourites South Africa take on New Zealand in the World Cup Super Six on Thursday having learned some sobering lessons from the recent tightly fought series against them. The Kiwis ran South Africa very close in a one-day tournament on their home soil earlier this year which the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Tuesday 1.30am FORMER Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock said on Tuesday he would not have killed askari Johannes Mabotha if he had known Mabotha was to have testified against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in a possible high treason case. He told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee in Pretoria that he would […]
Both the Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National Congress on Monday gave the thumbs up to negotiations on a government of provincial unity in KwaZulu-Natal. At a meeting of the ANC’s extended national working committee in Johannesburg on Monday, the party’s leadership resolved to continue negotiations with the IFP to consolidate peace, socio-economic change […]
NAMPOWER, Namibia’s power utility, has successfully completed the first phase of its billion-dollar interconnector of 900km that extends from Aries near Kenhardt in South Africa to the Kokerboom sub-station near Keetmanshoop. The company says project teams diligently worked against time and other constraints to construct Africa’s first power line that supports not only the latest […]