THURSDAY, 11.30AM EXPORTS of SA-built motor vehicles increased by 90% in the first five months of this year compared to the same period last year, according to latest figures from the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of SA. A total of 6 207 locally manufactured vehicles were exported between January and May this year, compared […]
THURSDAY, 8.00AM ROELF MEYER, who on Monday announced a formal deal with Bantu Holomisa to form a joint party, may be close to making a similar deal with Tony Leon’s Democratic Party. Leon was quick this week to welcome the proposed new party, and to say that his own discussions with the two men — […]
THURSDAY, 2.00PM SOLDIERS are attempting to form an army trade union, called the SA National Defence Union, and may go to court to force the military to lift its ban on union activities. The union claims that army officers have barred members from organising for the union or wearing union T-shirts, and have insisted that […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM TRANSPORT Minister Mac Maharaj has accepted proposals on the easing of the Mulitlateral Motor Vehicle Accident fund’s growing deficit, which will likely see the fuel levy that finances the fund being increased. Special adviser to the minister Joel Joffe said on Wednesday: “Every month that passes without changing the system adds R160-million to […]
THURSDAY, 3.30PM DEPUTY President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday announced the names of the five-member Independent Electoral Commission to oversee the 1999 general election. The commissioners, who will serve on a part-time basis, are: Brigilia Bam, Judge Johann Kriegler, NF Mpulwana, Fanie van der Merwe and Professor Herbert Vilikazi. Presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana said the chair […]
NO PEACE IN BRAZZAVILLE HEAVY weapons fire continued in the Congolese capital Brazzaville on Thursday. On Wednesday, the head of the national mediation committee, Brazzaville mayor Bernard Kolelas, indefinitely postponed political talks to seek a negotiated solution to the crisis after former strongman Denis Sassou Nguesso refused to attend. According to Sassou Nguesso’s spokesman Francois […]
THURSDAY, 3.30PM POLICE on Thursday said Wednesday night’s killing of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs national secretary Sharief Khan was not gang-related. The statement came amid fears that Khan’s murder was the beginning of a war between Cape Flats gangsters and the vigilante movement, in revenge for Pagad’s lynching last year of gangster Rashied Staggie. […]
THURSDAY, 8.00AM NIGERIAN peacekeeping troops were on Thursday reportedly still in control of the international airport outside the Sierra Leone capital Freetown after an assault by forces of the military junta which seized power in a coup on May 25. An FM radio station that was considered one of the prime targets of the attack […]
THURSDAY, 10.00AM: FOUR of the country’s provincial rugby clubs want a special meeting with the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) to object to a proposal by the Sarfu chief executive last Friday. The union presidents of Natal, Free State and Western Province met in Durban on Wednesday to discuss Rian Oberholzer’s proposal that next […]
THURSDAY, 3.30PM AZANIAN People’s Liberation Army cadre Gcinikhaya Makoma, who was jailed for 23 years for his part in the 1993 St James Church massacre, on Thursday told for the first time how he opened fire indiscriminately on congregants as they attended a Sunday evening service, leaving 11 dead and 58 injured. Makoma pleaded not […]