MONDAY, 2.30PM PUBLIC Protector Selby Baqwa has found that Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma’s department made grossly exaggerated and misleading claims to Parliament earlier this year about the relative expense of medicines in South Africa. However, Baqwa did not go as far as to make a finding of improper conduct, and noted that the profits of […]

TUESDAY, 11.30AM: ANDREW AITKEN, who replaces injured Johan Erasmus in the Springbok squad to play against England in Saturday’s Test at Twickenham, is the only change in the team. Bobby Skinstad will take Aitken’s place on the reserve bench and Free State’s Willie Meyer takes over from Dawie Theron as the reserve prop. Meyer was […]

TUESDAY, 7.00PM GENCOR and Gold Fields of SA on Tuesday announced detailed terms of their merger into a single giant gold mining company, Goldco. The announcement follows last-minute attempts by rival mining house Anglo American to scupper the deal by blocking the use of Driefontein mine as the vehicle for the merger. The two companies […]

TUESDAY, 10.00AM: ANGLO American Gold Corporation is expected to announce on Tuesday that it will use its Vaal Reefs mine as the vehicle for its proposed restructuring. Anglogold’s restructuring plan involves moving all its gold mining assets into a single listed entity in a bid to simplify corporate structure and clarify lines of control, as […]

TUESDAY, 11.30AM: SOUTH AFRICA has won a tug of war with Italian Serie A club Bari over striker Phil Masinga. South Africa demanded the release of the striker in time for the Confederation Cup in Saudi Arabia from December 12-21. The world controlling body Fifa requires teams to release international players a week before a […]

TUESDAY, 8.00AM WINNIE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA left the Truth Commission last night and went straight to a police station to lay charges against Tuesday’s chief witness, Katiza Cebekhulu. The decision to wait until last night to lay charges against Cebekhulu, is presumably a warning shot — the charges relate to allegations he made in a TV programme […]

TUESDAY, 6.00PM INDUSTRIAL shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange continued their slide on Tuesday, with the industrial index losing 59 points to 7 807. The financial index shed 7 points to 9 935, while the gold index gained a mere 3 points to 812. The all share index showed a loss of 18 points at […]

MONDAY, 6.00PM PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela on Saturday morning invested visiting Indonesian President Mohamed Suharto with the Order of Good Hope, Class One, Grand Cross (Gold), South Africa’s highest civilain honour, immediately drawing fire from opposition parties. Democratic Party leader Tony Leon said the award to Suharto, and one recently bestowed on Libyan strongman Colonel Muammar […]

MONDAY, 11.00AM: GRIQUAS need only 93 runs to win their Supersport Series cricket game against Free State on Monday, after dismissing their hosts for 227 in their second innings at the Springbok Park on Sunday. Griquas had earlier added 29 runs to their first innings 333/5 to finish at 362, with Free State 127 in […]

MONDAY, 4.00PM: A ZIMBABWEAN opposition leader and methodist minister Ndabaningi Sithole appeared in court on Monday, charged with attempting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe by blowing up his motorcade. Sithole, one of only two opposition MPs in parliament, was arrested two years ago along with two alleged co-conspirators, who have since both been jailed with […]