ANGLO American Platinum Corporation disclosed on Thursday that its new R1,2-billion Bafokeng Rasimone platinum mine, 10km from Sun City, will be brought into full production 21 months ahead of schedule in April next year. By that time the mine will be milling 200000 tons of ore a month. Business manager George Viljoen said the new […]
ROMAN Catholic priests incited Lesotho Defence Force troops to overthrow their commanders and later the government in a failed coup bid last year, according to court martial evidence heard on Friday. The evidence was contained in a military intelligence report submitted by the commander of the Lesotho army, Lieutenant-General Makhula Mosakeng. Mosakeng said priests visited […]
President Nelson Mandela and first lady Graca Machel left the Netherlands on Friday for Finland.
THE United States wants an assurance that three US nationals arrested in connection with smuggling weapons into the country will not be ill-treated while in police custody. An official at the US embassy in Harare said his office will register its concerns if it finds the three are being mistreated. The state-controlled Herald newspaper reports […]
PUBLIC Enterprises Minister Stella Sigcau told Parliament on Wednesday that long-struggling South African Airways is finally back in the black. Speaking during her department’s Budget vote, Sigcau said that SAA reflects a R8,4-million profit from October to December last year and has made R40-million this year.
THE African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal says it will call for charges to be laid against senior Inkatha Freedom Party official Philip Powell for gunrunning. The announcement follows the surprise confirmation on Tuesday by IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi that Powell had collected six truck loads of weapons from the Vlakplaas police hit squad in 1993. […]
warnings Marianne Merten This week’s killings in the Cape Town townships of Nyanga and KTC seemed to have caught provincial police off guard, despite warnings months ago that simmering conflict in the area could break out into open violence. Now plans by an umbrella body of Western Cape mediation and conflict resolution organisations for a […]
The wars are hotting up all over the African continent. Brotherly love is going out of style. Cain is killing Abel, Jacob is ripping off Esau and Sarah is usurping Rachel without batting an eyelid. It looks like hell up north. On the other hand, South Africans should not be too confident that they are […]
‘I love sending postcards to my wife and kids when I travel. Blue Mountain creates a unique form of communication that comes alive. Their electronic postcards come with real audio, with romantic poetry. It conjures up in my mind that once I used to write romantic poetry.” The minister of telecommunications and broadcasting’s hectic schedule […]
Even the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s fiercest critics cannot wish to claim that we have learned nothing from its exercises and their aftermaths – even if the lessons have not been particularly edifying ones. The truth commission’s report and the ongoing hearings of its amnesty committee have not, of course, reconciled us with one another […]