MONDAY, 4.30PM NONOGENARIAN former Malawian president Hastings Kamuzu Banda on Sunday announced his retirement from politics. The move is largely symbolic, as Banda, who is believed to have been senile for years, has not played an active role in politics since he relinquished power in the country’s first multiparty elections in 1994. Since then he […]
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, 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, 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, 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, […]
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, 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, 1.00PM: NATAL Rugby Union president Keith Parkinson on Sunday denied reports that the four unions which rejected Sarfu’s proposal for a regionalised team for next year’s Super-12 had accepted the proposal. He said the four rugby unions — Natal, Free State, Transvaal and Western Province — agreed to withdraw the application for a meeting […]
FILM OF THE WEEK : Johnathan Romney IN the great debate about cultural dumbing- down, cartoon cretins Beavis and Butt-head are often singled out as Anti-Christs, emblems of all that’s most debased in contemporary pop culture. But at the press preview of their debut movie, the cinema was crammed with more highbrow cultural journalists and […]