EMPOWERMENT group NextCom, which is hoping to win the third cellular network licence, said Monday that, if successful, it will give business to small and medium-sized black contractors. These contractors, it said, will be responsible for building base stations across the country to run the network under an empowerment structure — Prov-Con. Sifiso Pretorius, chief […]
NTSIKI Biko, the widow of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, is in a stable condition at the St Dominic’s Hospital in East London after she was injured in a head-on collision on the N2 between Umtata and Idutywa in the Eastern Cape late on Saturday afternoon. A minibus taxi she was travelling in collided with another […]
INJURY-plagued Graham Thorpe and Neil Fairbrother gave World Cup hosts a boost here on Friday as both came through unscathed in a tournament warm-up game against county side Kent. Thorpe, who missed the end of the recent Ashes series with back trouble, scored 55 before chipping out to short mid-wicket. Fairbrother – whose career has […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: AFTER months of delays over the planning of the Presidential jobs summit, Labour Minister Tito Mboweni has taken the plunge and proposed that it should happen no later than early July, at least two months earlier than anticipated. It is not clear, however, whether this leaves sufficient time for the preparations required. Business […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela’s legal counsel on Monday said the High Court judgment which overturned the appointment of the Browde commission of inquiry into the affairs of the SA Rugby Football Union was ”riddled with bias”. Advocate Wim Trengove told the Constitutional Court there was a ”pattern of frequently wrong rulings” in the judgment made by […]
JAPAN’S Nissan Motor Co Ltd will make vehicles for France’s Renault SA at its plants in South Africa and Thailand as part of production sharing following their capital tie-up. Nissan will start making Renault cars in SA as early as 2000, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said. Until now Renault has reached African markets mainly via […]
SIERRA Leone’s rebel movement will deliver its peace proposals to the chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Tuesday, a rebel spokesman in Lome said. “We will be delivering our document to Togo’s President Gnassingbe Eyadema tomorrow, who will then likely hand it over to the Sierra Leone government,” said Omrie […]
ALLAN Boesak, who has petitioned the Chief Justice for leave to appeal following his recent six-year sentence for theft, has confirmed that his wife Elna is five months pregnant with their second child. “I’m ecstatic,” Boesak is reported in the Cape Times as saying. He was sentenced in March to six years imprisonment for stealing […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kingston | Monday 9.00am BAFANA BAFANA completed a two-match tour of the Caribbean by drawing 1-1 with Jamaica at the Independence Stadium in Kingston on Sunday. The 1996 African champions, who suffered a shock 2-0 loss in Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday, showed greater urgency and commitment in a friendly match that seldom […]
A 900-ton arsenal of weapons was tracked down and destroyed in Mozambique during the last few months by a specialist unit of the South African Police Service. Sunday newspaper Rapport said the top secret operation formed part of Operation Rachel, which was started in 1995 to stop the flow of weapons into South Africa. Included […]