A WARRANT has been drawn up for Trevor Tutu, the wayward son of Truth and Reconciliation Commission chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, for failing to pay a R8000 fine. Tutu could spend a year in jail as a result. He was fined R10000 earlier this year after being convicted for reckless driving, of which R2000 was […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Tuesday 2.00pm. A SUMMIT of the 21-nation Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) ended in Nairobi on Tuesday with a plan to establish a zero-tariff free-trade zone by October 31 next year. Comesa leaders called during the two-day summit for faster regional economic integration, but lamented the fact that […]
PAPER and pulp group Sappi reported a ”strong” cashflow for the first six months of the year with cash generated by operations of R1,9-billion. Net finance costs were however up by some R50-million due to a reduction in interest capitalised. Although Sappi’s results in the six months to March,continued pressure on paper prices worldwide saw […]
BLACK empowerment consortium AfricaSpeaks — formerly Telecommunications Empowerment Corporation — announced on Thursday it is applying for the third cellular licence. The organisation describes itself as a broad consortium comprising some 100 groups — including the National Empowerment Corporation and the National Sports Council — drawn from all nine provinces. The group, chaired by businessman […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
THE Sea Fisheries Officials at Gansbaai in the Southern Cape on Monday warned the public not to eat potentially poisonous shell fish which has washed out onto the beaches. SABC radio news reports that Sea Fisheries spokesman Stanley Dramat said it is unclear what caused the washout of shell fish, which included starfish, abalone and […]