TUESDAY, 1.30PM: The camp of dethroned International Boxing Federation (IBF) bantamweight champion Mbulelo Botile will lodge a protest and demand a rematch against new IBF champion Tim Austin of America. Botile lost his title on an eighth-round stoppage on Saturdy night in the United States. Golden Gloves publicist Terry Pettifer said promoter Rodney Berman is […]
TUESDAY, 8.00AM THE PAC yesterday admitted to the murder of a mother and two teenage children south of Johannesburg in 1993 — for which three ANC men were jailed. Zandra Mitchley, her son Shaun and his friend Claire Silberbauer, were murdered in an attack that injured several other family members. Two Umkhonto we Sizwe cadres, […]
MONDAY, 4.00PM ZIMBABWEAN war veterans, who stormed the country’s parliament last week to demand pension pay-outs from a government war veterans’ fund, at the weekend mobbed cabinet ministers who were to address them, forcing the ministers to flee for their safety. President Robert Mugabe’s government called a series of meetings with veterans around the country […]
MONDAY, 4.00PM AS peace talks between rival Congolese factions continued in the absence of President Pascal Lissouba in the Gabonese capital of Libreville on Monday, Congo’s constitutional council announced that elections set for July 27 had been postponed and Lissouba’s mandate extended. The delegation representing Lissouba’s rival and predecessor Denis Sassou Nguesso turned up for […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s all gold index followed bullion’s latest recovery on Friday, picking up 27,7 points to close at 992 (after an intraday high of 1 005,1) as gold rallied $4,80 to $324,20/oz. Analysts, however, remain cautious about gold’s fortunes, saying the situation is nothing to get excited about, and a rally […]
MONDAY, 8.00AM GAUTENG health MEC Amos Masondo is leading the race for the provincial premiership, after winning the support of the ANC, the communist party, Cosatu and the SA National Civics Organisation at a marathon seven hour meeting yesterday (Sunday). Trailing Masondo is deputy provincial chairman Mathole Motshekga, supported by the ANC Youth League and […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM INVESTMENT companies belonging to the Congress of SA Trade Unions and its affiliates, together with a black doctors’ organisation, have clinched a R220-million stake in Netcare’s R920-million acquisition of private hospital group Clinic Holdings. The deal, in which Netcare acquired Barney Hurwitz’s controlling stake in Clinic Holdings, which owns 17 hospitals and Hurwitz’s […]
MONDAY, 5.00PM THE Pan Africanist Congress will not apologise for its liberation struggle activities during the apartheid era, although a few military mistakes had admittedly taken place, PAC secretary general Michael Muendane said on Monday. Muendane also revealed for the first time why the PAC’s armed wing, the Azanian People’s Liberation Army, targeted St James […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: ORLANDO PIRATES are the new Iwisa Charity Soccer Spectacular champions after beating defending champions Kaizer Chiefs on penalty shootouts on Saturday. Chiefs went down 10-9 to Pirates. A total of 30 penalties were taken. Pirates qualified for the final after beating Moroka Swallows 6-5 on penalties after their game ended 1-1 at full […]
MONDAY, 3.30PM THE African National Congress had won four of the five contested wards in Sunday’s by-election in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands town of Richmond, scoring a landslide victory over its main rival in the area, the National Consultative Forum. Leader of the forum in the area, fired ANC MPL Sifiso Nkabinde suffered a humiliating defeat, […]