CORRECTIONAL Services have reversed an earlier decision to allow convicted assassin Janusz Walus to marry gospel singer Berril Roy in Pretoria Maximum Security Prison. Walus is serving time for the murder of Communist Party leader Chris Hani in 1993, plotted with fellow prisoner and former Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis. Prison authorities say that the […]
ALMOST 600 workers on a fruit farm near Malelane in Mpumalanga have won a double battle after a two-week strike. For the first time, labourers on Laughing Waters farm will get gumboots, overalls and raincoats in a deal supported by the South African Agricultural Plantation and Allied Workers’ Union (Saapawu). They will also get pay […]
THE 18-year-old Townview High School pupil accused of killing teacher Andreas Werth last Friday appeared briefly in the Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, SABC radio news reports. Justus Machafa appeared on charges of murder, housebreaking, theft and possession of an unlicensed firearm and was remanded pending a bail application on March 16. Machafa, who handed […]
CAF Cup holders Club Sportif Sfaxien of Tunisia have received a bye into the second round following the withdrawal of Energy of Benin. The clubs were due to meet this weekend when 46 first-round matches are scheduled in the annual Champions League, Cup Winners Cup and CAF Cup competitions. Coffee of Ethiopia have pulled out […]
AN armoured column of Ethiopian troops made a two-day incursion into Somalia, looting field radios and other equipment and kidnapping a businessman, a Somali warlord charged on Tuesday. The warlord, Somali National Front leader General Omer Haji Mohamed “Masale”, said the troops rolled over the border in the Balanbale area of Somalia’s central Galgudud region […]
INFLATION in Botswana has risen sharply over the last four months to 7,2% in February, from 5,9% last October. Measured from a November 1996 base of 100, the cost of living index is now at 117, following increases in the food, fuel and power, and household operations components of the index. Increased electricity tariffs announced […]
IN a joint cross-border crime prevention operation last week, South African police and army seized suspected stolen livestock including some 300 sheep and 20 cows, as well as 14 sacks of dagga. Police said on Monday that the operation, carried out by about 20 police and 40 SA National Defence Force troops using horses and […]
WALLABY wing Ben Tune, who has been sidelined with a knee injury since last season, will make his comeback for the Queensland Reds to play ACT Brumbies in their Super 12 match on Friday night. Tune played the last 15 minutes of the Reds’ match against Waikato last weekend but Friday will be his first […]
AFRICAN soccer chiefs will reconsider their decision to take the 2000 Nations Cup away from Zimbabwe at a meeting in Guinea on March 15. A five-member Zimbabwean delegation met Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Issa Hayatou in Ghana at the weekend before the African youth championship final. Hayatou said the CAF executive committee will […]
SOUTH African Breweries plc on Monday received confirmation from the London Stock Exchange that its ordinary shares will be admitted to the official list of the London Stock Exchange with effect from 9am (London time). At that time, 11am local time, SAB’s shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange moved to trade unconditionally.