OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dakar | Sunday 9.45pm. NIGERIA won 23 medals, including 11 golds, earning the tag of being the best athletic team on the continent at the 11th African athletics championships which ended in Dakar on Saturday. South Africa placed second with a haul of 11 medals, including seven golds. The Kenyan team did not […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Sunday 7.30PM BUOYED by his allies’ weekend military successes against advancing rebels, Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila has rejected Sunday’s Southern African Development Community ceasefire proposal, insisting all Rwandan and Ugandan troops must first withdraw from DRC territory. “What we have said all along is that this rebellion is […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 4.30pm. SOUTH African Airway’s newly-appointed chief executive officer Coleman Andrews on Monday described the airline on June 15 this year as in a “very, very fragile” position, in desperate need of a clear and compelling vision of what its future could be. Speaking before the National Assembly’s environment and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 3.30pm. National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) on Friday announced that 220000 of its members in the motor industry are to start a nationwide strike on September 1 following a breakdown in wage negotiations on August 1. The notice to strike comes just three days after 20000 workers […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 11.00am. LEHLOHONOLO “HANDS OF STONE” LEDWABA has moved up into the second spot in the International Boxing Federation rankings after winning a unanimous points decision against Arnel Barotillo of Australia in a 10-rounder at the Carousel on Saturday night. The judges gave the fight to Ledwaba 97-93, 97-94, 97-94, making […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 1.00PM FORMER cleric and anti-apartheid activist Dr Allan Boesak (52) appeared in the Cape High Court on Monday to face 32 fraud and theft charges totalling R1,1-million, relating to alleged misuse of overseas donor funds. Boesak pleaded not guilty to all the charges. The charges relate to funding for […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.45am. KENYAN athlete Simon Biwott won the men’s division of the 16th annual Mexico City International Marathon Sunday with a finishing time of 2 hours, 16 minutes, 45 seconds. Biwott ran the fourth-best finish in the race’s history and finished 28 seconds ahead of Mexican Francisco Bautista. Mexico’s Luis Reyes […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 9.30pm. CAPE Town magistrate Johan Venter, presiding over the inquest over the 1996 lynching of Hard Livings gang co-leader Rashaad Staggie on Friday warned the media against prejudicing or pre-empting inquest findings. Venter’s statement was in reaction to negative media reaction to an announcement by Advocate Willie Viljoen on […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 7.00pm. PAULA McBride, the wife of jailed foreign affairs official Robert McBride, on Friday placed an advertisement in the press appealing for financial assistance for her husband’s legal costs. McBride on Friday said her husband’s legal costs have already run over $50000. The South African government has refused to pay […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 9.00PM THE majority of the African National Congress’ majority will drop in the 1999 general election, according to a survey conducted in July. Survey company MarkData said on Friday the that poll indicated that 57% of voters would favour the ANC/SA Communist Party alliance — a 5,5% drop from the […]