OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 8.00pm. MEMBERS of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA will return to work on Monday after eight out of nine regions endorsed a wage package offered by employers. The ninth region is to meet to discuss the package on Monday. Numsa spokesman Peter Dantjie said workers would return to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Monday 7.50pm. The Land Claims Court will receive its first urban claim in Gauteng this week, the provincial commission on restitution of land rights said on Monday. Commissioner Emma Mashinini said in Pretoria that the case involved hundreds of former residents of The Highlands, who were forcibly removed from their homes […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.15pm. DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo rebels admitted on Monday that they have not captured the airport at the government’s vital eastern military headquarters at Kindu, but are merely “around” the town. Rebel “information minister” Etienne Ngangoura on Sunday claimed that rebel troops had taken the town and airport in what […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.30pm. SOUTH African police will not interfere with a Namibian investigation into last Wednesday’s R60-million heist attempt at Karibib, 180km north-east of Windhoek, police director Reg Crewe said on Monday. The suspects arrested after the failed heist include three South Africans: Edward John Matjabane, Jacob Dugmore Sago and Mangaliso Peter […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 9.30pm. THE Free State Cheetahs kept their Bankfin Currie Cup semi-final hopes alive when they beat the Boland Cavaliers 59-19 in Wellington on Sunday. The Cheetahs, who led 21-5 at the break, ran in nine tries to collect the maximum points and advance to fifth place on the Currie Cup […]
DANIELLE KNIGHT, Washington | Monday 8.30pm. UNITED States-based oil company Chevron on Monday admitted that it did have a role in an incident in Nigeria last May in which security forces shot at and killed two activists who had taken over one of the firm’s offshore oil platforms. Until now, Chevron held it was not […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Monday 7.00pm. A FORMAL commission of inquiry headed by a senior retired judge will be established to investigate the Mpumalanga Parks Board in the province’s widest ranging anti-corruption investigation yet, premier Mathews Phosa has announced. Speaking from his Nelspruit house, Phosa said the commission will investigate all possible irregularities in the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Gauteng | Sunday 9.00pm. SOMEBODY is stalking Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the Sunday Times has reported. Madikizela-Mandela, president of the African National Congress Women’s League, said intruders broke into her home in Orlando West, Soweto, on Thursday night and, for the third time, rifled through her bedroom, but took nothing. They sneaked over the wall […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maseru | Sunday 10.00pm. RIVAL Lesotho political parties were are preparing for a fierce debate on Monday on whether or not Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili’s government should continue to rule the kingdom until new elections in 15 to 18 months’ time. The debate will take place at continuing Southern African Development Community-led talks […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Hoedspruit | Sunday 11.00pm. A STUDY of bovine tuberculosis has begun in the Kruger National Park, KNP director David Mabunda announced on Sunday. The survey aims to find out more about the disease, its geographic spread through the park and the risk to animals. Buffalo are the carriers of BTB and other animals […]