OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 12.15pm. A REPORT on an audit of Portnet’s conculkting contracts has cleared the harbours parastatal of any crime, but found that Portnet management had “no clear guideline or policy to be followed in the appointment of consultants”. Following the release of the audit report on Friday, Portnet MD Rob Childs […]
THE African National Congress and the Gauteng division of the Inkatha Freedom Party resolved to postpone the opening of the Thokoza Monument until after the June 2 elections. The move was taken to “ensure peace and foster reconciliation”. Campaign duties prevent the presidents of the parties being present before the poll, and their participation will […]
THE United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on Friday sentenced Clement Kayishema to life in prison and Obed Ruzindana to 25 years’ jail for genocide during Rwanda’s 1994 civil war. The tribunal, which sits in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha, found the two men had jointly directed Hutu militiamen to kill Tutsi men, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 5.00pm DEPUTY President Thabo Mbeki wants the Truth Commission to change its rules on amnesty to allow groups like his African National Congress to be granted blanket amnesty. Mbeki said in an interview with the Sunday Times that the rules should be changed so that members of political parties and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 12.00pm LAST apartheid president F.W. De Klerk’s challenge to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) will get a brief airing in the Cape High Court on Tuesday, his lawyer said. De Klerk will not have to appear and the matter will immediately be postponed to a date still to […]
THE Zimbabwean government denied on Thursday that it needs an extra Z$1,2-billion ($31-million) to finance its military operations in the Congo where it is backing President Laurent Kabila against rebel forces. Defence Minister Moven Mahachi dismissed a report in the weekly independent newspaper Financial Gazette that he submitted a request to President Robert Mugabe’s cabinet […]
ALAN Boesak, disgraced former anti-apartheid cleric, on Monday makes his first important appeal against his six-month jail sentence. Boesak and his legal team have until Monday afternoon to submit their final legal documentation on the plea on four counts of fraud and theft. A senior clerk at the appellate division in Cape Town, Amanda Gouws, […]
HOUT Bay police officer Inspector Andre Ferreira will apply for bail on Monday afternoon at the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court after he was arrested by the Independent Complaints Directorate last Thursday in connection with charges of murder, perjury and attempting to defeat the ends of justice. Ferreira two weeks ago shot dead a suspect after […]
JAPAN will join international observers to monitor South Africa’s general elections on June 2 by sending six people, the foreign ministry said on Friday. The six will monitor polling stations and ballot counting, a foreign ministry official said. South Africa has asked for some 500 international monitors, the ministry said. In February, the Japanese government […]
LONDON’S The Sunday Times claims it has evidence that Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi played a direct part in ordering the 1998 Lockerbie bombing of a PanAm jet. The paper said it is unable to publish full details of its evidence after Treasury Solicitors said that unless certain information is removed from the report, they will […]