OWN CORRESPONDENT, Gland | Wednesday 3.15pm. THE African rhino population is slowly growing, in response to intensive conservation work, the World Wide Fund for Nature announced in Gland, Switzerland on Wednesday. The WWF said the known total of all African rhinos grew from 9971 in 1995 to 11065 in 1997 “It may not seem a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.30pm. THE National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union on Wednesday warned that it will entail “quite a lot of work” for it to prevent “infuriated” airport workers from striking later in the week in response to Tuesday’s deadlock in wage negotiations with the Airports Company of South Africa. Nehawu […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kampala | Wednesday 4.45pm. TRUCKS full of Ugandan troops were spotted heading for the Democratic Republic of Congo border on Sunday and Monday night, reports in Kampala said on Wednesday. The troops were thought to be on their way to back rebels fighting to overthrow DRC President Laurent Kabila. Reports described eight to […]
ROB DAVIES, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.45PM. KWAZULU-Natal agriculture portfolio committee chairman Maurice Mackenzie on Wednesday night accused the African National Congress of gross political irresponsibility and inciting racial hatred in its response to an anti-poaching operation on a farm in Muden in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands on Sunday. This follows an ANC statement calling for the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.45pm. A BI-NATIONAL consortium of South African and Swazi construction companies, led by Grinaker and Wilson Bayley Homes, was on Wednesday awarded a R342,4-million contract to construct the Magugu Dam in Swaziland. Magugu is the second of seven planned dams on the Komati and Lomati rivers in Swaziland and Mpumalanga […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.00PM THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released documents which point to the involvement of the former South African government in the mysterious 1961 death of United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. TRC head of investigations Dumisa Ntsebeza said he acquired the documents while investigating another matter. He said they have […]
LEONARD NDZHUKULA, Witbank | Wednesday 4.00PM A SENIOR Ekangala magistrates’ court administrative clerk was arrested in a dawn raid on her Lynville township house near Witbank on Wednesday morning after police reportedly linked her to the theft of an estimated R5,2-million from the Ekangala courts. The arrest follows intensive investigations into corruption and cheque fraud […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Wednesday 10.30AM. INVESTIGATORS from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday raided a downtown Nairobi hotel, where the massive bomb that blew up the American embassy two weeks ago is believed to have been assembled. The Daily Nation reports that Mohammed Saddiq Howaida (also known as Mohammed Saddiq Odeh), […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT in Johannesburg | Monday 4.30pm. POST and Telecommunications Minister Jay Naidoo on Monday expressed concern at the slow response of small and medium-sized businesses (SMMEs) in addressing the Millenium Bug, warning that, should the Year 2000 problem not be addressed in a holistic way, “society as we know it could disintegrate”. Qualifying his […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kimberly | Tuesday 10.30PM. THE trial of right-wing extremist Willem Ratte and 10 co-accused, which opened in Kimberly on Monday, moved to the Pomfret infantry base in the Northern Cape on Tuesday for an inspection of the site where the men allegedly tried to steal weapons. The 11 accused are charged with trying […]