SOME 80% of staff at the Agricultural and Rural Development Corporation in Northern Province face the axe after the agriculture department severely cut the corporation’s budget this year. ARDC Managing Director Dr Alidzulwi Naledzani said on Wednesday that the corporation’s financial woes began last year when its budget was cut from R74-million to R48-million. This […]
THE voting rights of South African citizens abroad during elections, and of prisoners, will be considered by Cabinet in its Thursday afternoon meeting, according to Ronnie Mamoepa, spokesman for Deputy President Thabo Mbeki. Opposition parties have united to demand that citizens abroad be allowed to vote, following a Constitutional Court decision last week that prisoners […]
THE Cats on Tuesday named 29 players for their Super 12 tour in Australia and New Zealand. Several top players will miss the Antipodean tour due to injury, including Springbok hooker James Dalton and former Bok lock Johan Ackermann. If Chester Williams passes a fitness test on Friday, one of the other 28 players will […]
NIGERIA has agreed to co-host the 2000 African Cup of Nations with Ghana. Chief of General Staff Vice Admiral Mike Akhigbe said before the start of a World Youth Championship match in Ibadan late on Sunday that Nigeria is looking forward to hosting the competition with Ghana in January and February next year. The Confederation […]
THE Joint Bilateral Commission of South Africa and Iran will meet in Tehran on April 10 and 11 1999, to be attended by Minister of Foreign Affairs Alfred Nzo and delegations from the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Industry and the Credit Guarantee Insurance Corporation of Africa. Nzo will meet Iranian President Mohammad Khatami […]
TAPPE HENNING, referee for Saturday’s Super 12 match between the Stormers and the Sharks at Newlands, will attend the after-match press conference with his two touch judges, the Western Province Rugby Football Union said on Wednesday. With more and more referees joining the professional code, players, administrators and the media have asked for referees to […]
POLICE said on Wednesday that Western Cape United Democratic Movement provincial secretary Malizdo Diko survived an attack on his life on Monday night when several shots were fired at him near his Nyanga home. Police spokesman Captain Neville Malila on Wednesday said detectives are investigating a possible link between the attack on Diko and attacks […]
LAVA from the Mount Cameroon volcano is inching inexorably towards two villages, whose combined population of 1500 residents are preparing to evacuate, national radio said. Local authorities said they are “prepared at any time” to carry out the evacuation of Bakinguili and Batoke, some 350 kilometers (215 miles) west of Yaounde, adding that four army […]
THE former commander of the South African Defence Force’s Special Forces Unit, Charl Naude, told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Wednesday that he takes ”full responsibility” for the 1986 murders of Dr fabian Ribeiro and his wife Florence. Naude said he does not know who ordered the couple’s execution, but said he takes full […]
THE South African Police Service is to host Interpol’s 15th African law enforcement conference in Cape Town from next Monday. The biannual conference, held for the first time in Africa, will be attended by African police chiefs and Interpol president Toshinori Kanemoto of Japan, as well as delegates from Australia, Chile, France, Germany, Japan and […]