LIBERTY Life and Standard Bank Investment Corporation are considering becoming wholly subsidiaries of a single parent company, which will become the vehicle for investors, Business Day reported on Friday. Stanbic recently purchased Liblife Controlling Corporation, which heads the Liberty corporate pyramid of ownership. Negotiations between the two companies in 1998 fell apart when they could […]
ERITREA’S week-long truce with Ethiopia ended on Sunday morning, when Ethiopia attacked Alitena-Mereb, in the disputed Tsorona sector. Ethiopia has confirmed the renewed hostilities, but downplayed them as mere “low level skirmishes”. Ethiopia also confirmed Eritrean claims of heavy artillery shelling on Saturday afternoon. The weekend fighting followed a week of relative calm — despite […]
HAVING been admitted to hospital suffering chest pains and hypertension on Monday evening, veteran African National Congress leader Walter Sisulu (86) was discharged by Soweto’s private Lesedi clinic on Thursday afternoon. He will be under close observation for some time and has strict instructions to get lots of rest.
AUSTRALIA’S domination of a hockey test series with SA is complete. Three goals in the space of nine minutes in the second half put Australia on course for a 6-3 win over South Africa in Cape Town on Saturday. The win clinched a 4-1 victory in the series for the tourists. They lost their opening […]
SOUTH AFRICAN voters remain highly intolerant of their political opponents, according to the latest Markinor/Idasa Opinion ’99 survey. The survey found one in four voters openly admits being ready to take action against political opponents including being prepared to block speeches, rallies and other normal political activity. Up to half of African National Congress supporters […]
SOUTH AFRICA will play Togo in June in the first round of the African qualifying round for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games football tournament. The draw was announced on Thursday, for the first and second legs on the weekends of June 11 to 12, and 25 to 17. Group 1: Uganda v Zambia, Nigeria v […]
NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa members ended a nine-day strike at Toyota’s Durban plant on Thursday, returning to work while Numsa continues negotiations. SABC radio reports that this follows management’s threat to dismiss workers if they continue with the illegal strike. Some 1500 workers have been on strike since February 26 despite a […]
Peter Sutton (Crossfire, March 5 to 11), in an article that relies on a book by Michael Denton, writes that “the theory propounded by Charles Darwin and his followers still remains to be proved conclusively”. Denton has led Sutton astray by criticising evolution without first troubling to understand the process. The article states that molecular […]
Anthony Kunda Seven Zambian reporters were arrested this week after their newspaper published reports that the Zambian army did not have the capacity to withstand an attack by the Angolan army. The Post’s reporters Joe Kaunda and Kelvin Shimo were arrested on Tuesday night. Police later arrested Goodson Machona, Lubasi Katundu, Brighton Phiri, Amos Malupenga […]
The council’s closure of Mega Music is a severe blow to musicians and has left Johannesburg looking even more like a ghost town at night, writes Peter Makurube The Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council has finally unleashed the axe on Mega Music Trust, the body that runs Mega Music warehouse, an epicentre for musical happenings in […]