FOUR days ahead of the handover to a civilian government in Nigeria, bank workers began strike actions demanding better pay and conditions, union officials said. “We have sent out circulars to all our members nationwide. It is a stay-at-home order,” Shuaib Ibrahim, the general secretary of the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions […]
THE appeal of former president PW Botha (83) against his conviction for ignoring a Truth and Reconciliation Commission subpoena is to be heard in the Cape High Court on Friday. Botha was convicted last August for ignoring a summons to testify to the commission, thereby contravening the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act. If […]
MORE African footballers could be playing in the English Premier League next season following the British government’s plans to relax work permit rules next month. This means the top English teams will be able tap young and talented African footballers before they are snapped up by teams in Italy, France, Belgium and Holland. There will […]
MPUMALANGA’S chambers of commerce are protesting against three toll gates erected along the 400-km highway between Witbank and Komatipoort. Two of the gates have already been opened at the towns of Middelburg and Machadodorp, costing motorists an additional R20 and R30 respectively. “A round trip Nelspruit to Gauteng will now cost the ordinary motorist R100,” […]
A BRITISH police chief was critically injured when his car rolled several times near Oshoek on the border between Mpumalanga and Swaziland on Monday, police said on Tuesday. Police spokesperson Inspector Sibongile Nkosi said Chief Superintendent George Balchin, 49, of the London City police appeared to have fallen asleep at the wheel of his Land […]
INKATHA Freedom Party leader Mangosotho Buthelezi signed an election pact with a group claiming to represent over 10-million unemployed South Africans at a rally in Durban on Monday night. Buthelezi signed a “Social Covenant” with the Unemployed Silent Majority Organisation (USMO) in which he pledged the IFP’s support to South Africa’s unemployed. USMO, which claims […]
TUESDAY, 7.30PM: SHARES on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange ended off their lowest levels on Tuesday, but due to the 18% hike in the repo rate by the South African Reserve Bank, markets remained bearish. Dealers said that although the drastic measure was implemented to save the rand exchange rate, other markets were swamped by the […]
A HOMEMADE incendiary device was found outside the Pretoria home of Gauteng Freedom Front leader Joseph Chiole at about 6am on Tuesday. Seeing the package marked “a gift to General Viljoen”, Chiole drove it to Viljoen’s home. When the package was inspected at 3.30pm on Tuesday an explosive device consisting of a three quarter full […]
WELL over 70% of tenders for retail space in the international departures terminal at the Johannesburg International Airport have been awarded to black-controlled or empowerment companies, the Corporate Tender Board of the Airport Companies of South Africa announced on Monday. The board said that only 10% of the 38 local and international tenders awarded did […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Brisbane | Tuesday 2.30pm. THE selection of former Springbok skipper Tiaan Strauss in the Wallaby team has been criticised by a powerful Australian rugby club as sending a mixed message to local players. Strauss was on Monday named as a reserve forward in the Australian team to play Ireland in Brisbane on June […]