OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.00am. SHOOTING Stars of Nigeria staged a dramatic second-leg recovery on Sunday to reach the second round of the African Champions League. West African champions Stars trounced Kaloum of Guinea 6-0 in Ibadan with two goals each from Baldwin Bazuaye, Duke Udi and Peter Obanor to qualify 6-3 on aggregate. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Monday 11.00am. SOUTH Africa’s first lady Graca Machel said in Pretoria on Sunday she knew the apartheid government was responsible for the 1986 plane crash which killed her former husband and the ex-president of Mozambique, Samora Machel. “We may not find evidence, but I know they did it,” she said on […]
MOST of the nearly 40 million faulty condoms which South Africa’s health department said last July must be recalled are still being distributed, the Sunday Times reported. The Indian-manufactured Kenzo condoms, approved by the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS), were recalled after tests found one in four to be faulty. But the recall only […]
THE Association of Microlenders and Associated Consumers has objected to latest government proposals to regulate the industry, claiming the planned controls will close it down. The proposed regulations include capping interest rates from the current allowable 30% per month to 15,83% a month, or 190% a year. Association MD Henk Vivier says if the regulations […]
GAUTENG Housing and Land Affairs MEC Dan Mofokeng will on Saturday present African National Congress veteran Walter Sisulu with the title deed to his house at Orlando, Soweto. The Department of Housing and Land Affairs has thus far issued some 84000 titles. This has provided secure tenure to more than 350000 families in the province. […]
THE Zambian government has announced that it plans to round up and send home about 200000 street children. The exercise will take place in the capital Lusaka and the copperbelt region. The minister of community development and social services Dawson Lupunga says the government will train the youngsters to become responsible adults. He gives no […]
PAN Africanist Congress MP Patricia de Lille is in a stable condition at a local hospital in Oudsthoorn after a car crash on Friday morning. De Lille and the PAC’s election manager, Avril Harding, were travelling in a party car when the accident occurred just after 11am about 30km outside Oudsthoorn. De Lille was bruised, […]
CABINET has asked the Mineral and Energy Affairs Department to finish up the restructuring of the liquid fuels industry by the end of 1999. While current regulatory mechanism will remain in place, all the investigations and consultations over new mechanisms should be completed by the end of the year. A key element of the restructuring […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kigali | Monday 1.50pm. THE leadership of the main rebel movement in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been dissolved and a new interim body put in place, Radio Rwanda reported on Monday. The government radio said the interim leadership of the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) would eventually give way to […]
HEALTH Minister Dr Nkosazana Zuma will on Monday become the first recipient of the World Health Organisation’s Tobacco Free World-award in Geneva, Switzerland. Zuma’s spokesman Vincent Hlongwane said from Geneva the award is in recognition for her “outstanding work in the area of tobacco control”. The award was the first of its kind. It will […]