MONDAY, 11.30AM: The draw for the Iwisa Charity Soccer Spectacular will be made by Premier Soccer League officials at the Sunnyside Park hotel on Tuesday. Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates, Moroka Swallows and Mamelodi Sundowns have qualified for the draw. The four teams qualified by registering the most votes in a telephonic and postal vote system […]
MONDAY, 5.00PM SOUTH Africa’s democracy could collapse if the corruption of the police and the judicial system by organised crime syndicates is not stopped, Deputy President Thabo Mbeki warned on Monday. Speaking after the weekend meeting of the African National Congress’s national executive committee, Mbeki also said elements of the previous apartheid government’s security forces […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM MANAGEMENT and labour at parastatal SA Forestry Company (Safcol) have reached agreement on the company’s imminent restructuring, including that it should not be split up. Business Day on Monday quoted a document outlining areas of agreement and disagreement in the ongoing negotiations on Safcol’s privatisation, which is due go before a cabinet committee […]
MONDAY, 5.00PM FEARS have been expressed that the Jewish community could become the target of Muslim groups after the Cape Town home of a prominent Jewish resident was petrol-bombed early on Monday morning. The attack, reminiscent of recent shootings and bombings of houses of alleged drug dealers by People Against Gangsterism and Drugs vigilantes, followed […]
MONDAY, 5.00PM The conflict between the National Union of Mineworkers and the Mouthpiece Workers’ Union at Anglo American Platinum Mines near Rustenburg took a turn for the worse at the weekend, when a NUM shopsteward was murdered on Saturday, and another two NUM members were killed on Monday morning. At 2am on Saturday, a group […]
MONDAY, 12.50AM: GAUTENG Lions captalised on the poor kicking of Mpumalanga Pumas to win their Currie Cup match 27-26 on Sunday. Mpumalanga squandered 12 extra first-half points through missed kicks at goals. Lions scrumhalf Johan Roux saved his team after by scoring two tries, converting two of them and converting two penalties for a personal […]
DEMOCRACY SUMMIT AFRICA’S first high-level summit on good governance ended on Saturday in Abbis Ababa, with a pledge by participants to “to pursue collaborative programmes” for the transparent management of public affairs. The forum, sponsored by the UN and the OAU, discused issues such as transparency, accountability, the rule of law and “free and responsible […]
MONDAY, 11.45AM: FRANK POOE clocked an amazing 1:02:24 to win the PG Bison Central Gauteng half marathon on Saturday. Controversy erupted when it was suggested the course was 400m short, although it had been certified by the Central Gauteng referees association. Pooe’s win came as no suprise, but the time he registered led observers to […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM: SOUTH AFRICA’s under-23 squad went down 2-0 to their Australian counterparts in Canberra, Australia on Saturday, in the first of their two friendly international encounters. Coach Mich D’Avray said he was very impressed with the way his charges performed even though they lost. D’Avray and the squad are in Australia on a two-week […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM THE Financial Services Board is to intensify investigations into the increasing number of unregistered long-term life assurers who are operating in SA illegally. FSB and Registrar of Insurance executive officer Rick Cottrell said on Friday the board had received numerous complaints since the July relaxation of exchange control regulations of unregistered life assurers […]