OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 10.00pm. JUSTICE Minister Dullah Omar has dismissed newspaper reports that said he doubted that it was appropriate for a judge to remain at the head of the Heath Special Investigative Unit. Judge Willem Heath, interviewed on SABC TV, said that it had come as a surprise “that the Minister […]
SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.00pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange appeared to have come out of a long winter on Tuesday as positive sentiment from Monday spilled through into the markets. Dealers said the market was firm across the board, largely as a result of a growing outlook that the worst of the domestic economic […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Tuesday 9.30pm. A KEY witness in the Bronkhorstspruit heist trial has described how he was shot three times by one of the robbers, and has identified the man who shot him. Fifteen men are on trial in the Pretoria High Court for the daring heist, noted for the military precision with […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.45am. GOVERNMENT has facilitated the delivery of some 600000 low-cost houses since 1994, a move which is starting to get South Africans housed “in earnest”, Housing Minister Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele said on Tuesday night. Speaking at a Gauteng housing awards dinner, Mthembi-Mahanyele called for even more innovation in building homes for […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.30pm. ZIMBABWE went to lunch on 81/1 on the first day of their one-off Test match against the touring Indian team in Harare on Wednesday. The Zimbabweans were sent in to bat on a lively wicket by Indian skipper Mohammed Azharuddin, and started well against the Indian bowling, who struggled […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 9.00pm. THE National Council of Provinces has approved Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma’s tobacco bill which bans tobacco advertising and smoking in the workplace. ”Just as surely as smoking causes cancer, so does the industry target our children and the youth,” Zuma said while urging the NCOP to approve the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 11.50am. PROPOSED changes to the Competition Bill suggested by the Congress of South African Trade Unions and diamond conglomerate De Beers were rejected by the National Council of Provinces’ economic affairs committee on Monday. Cosatu’s request that unions be represented in merger control proceedings was rejected by chief director […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 6.30pm. A LAST-MINUTE amendment to Dr Nkosazana Zuma’s anti-tobacco bill will see a blanket ban on smoking in all public places. A further amendment has backed the R200 fine for smoking in the workplace with a jail sentence if the smoker can’t or won’t pay up. The changes are […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Tuesday 10.00pm. DISCREDITED Mpumalanga legislature member David Mkhwanazi threatened to sue the provincial leadership of the African National Congress on Tuesday for implicating him in corruption and suspending him from the party. The former environmental affairs MEC said on Tuesday that he had been publicly defamed by a number of the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 7.30pm. JUSTICE Minister Dullah Omar on Tuesday cast a pall over the future of Judge Willem Heath and his anti-corruption watchdog, the Heath Special Investigation Unit. Speaking before Parliament, Omar questioned the whether having a judge serve full-time on as head of the unit raises the question: “What happens […]