SOUTH Africa’s first homegrown satellite, Stellenbosch University’s Sunsat, remains earthbound after the 11th postponement of the launch since the new year. Officials at the Vandenburg Air Force Base in California said the launch of a Nasa Delta II rocket carrying Sunsat and a Boeing Argos spacecraft was delayed due to unfavourable weather conditions, and will […]

HEAT ON THE BUREAUCRATS SENIOR public service managers will have to work for pay rises in future, according to Public Service and Administration Minister Zola Skweyiya. Signing a performance agreement with his director general, Paseka Ncholo, on Tuesday, Skweyiya said he believes the new regime will improve relations between directors general and ministers and reduce […]

BEER giant South African Breweries Ltd said on Friday it plans to merge its interests in two Polish breweries, Lech Browary and Browary Tyskie, into one company with a single distribution system. SAB said the move follows the thumbs-up from the supervisory boards of Browary Tyskie Gorny Slask SA and Lech Browary Wielkopolski SA to […]

FLIGHT problems on Monday forced the ministers of defence and foreign affairs to cancel a trip to Uganda, where they were to stand in for President Nelson Mandela. “First they had flight clearance problems with some countries to the north and then there was a major technical problem with the aircraft they had chartered. It […]

HARMONY Gold Mining Company posted a dip in its cash operating profit to R100,4-million for the last quarter of 1998, compared to R104,3-million in the previous three-month period, the company announced on Monday. Net earnings fell dramatically to R38,8-million in the last quarter from R78,2-million in the third quarter, largely as a result of R30-million […]

MILO, the six-month-old Jack Russell terrier who underwent open heart surgery at the University of Cape Town last week, died overnight. The puppy died of heart failure shortly after landing at Johannesburg International Airport while being moved from Cape Town to Onderstepoort veterinary research institute near Pretoria.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00pm. A FORMER member of the Afrikanerweerstandsbeweging (AWB) who boasts he planted at least 32 bombs in the run-up to the country’s first democratic elections in 1994, has been granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Dries Kriel was given indemnity from prosecution for a spate of bombings […]

BRITISH actress Helen Mirren slated the European small arms trade on Saturday, blaming it for fuelling South Africa’s rampant crime. “European countries are very culpable for the spread of arms throughout the world and it’s time to stop them,” she told a press conference in Johannesburg. Mirren, star of the Prime Suspect television series, is […]

KENYAN President Daniel arap Moi paid an official visit to Eritrea on Sunday for talks with President Isayas Afeworki on the Ethiopian-Eritrean border conflict. Moi appealed to Afeworki to exercise restraint to avoid an outbreak of hostilities, local radio said. Moi said he had delivered a similar message to Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi when […]

MANUFACTURING concern CS Manufacturing opened South Africa’s first commercial cassava starch factory in the Northern Province on Friday. The investment in the factory is estimated at R28-million. CS Manufacturing MD Jim Casey said the new factory will produce 60 tons of starch a day, with 50% of the factory’s capacity to be sourced from surrounding […]