OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 3.00pm. THE United Nations on Wednesday night said it will watch with interest a possible South African government investigation into claims that the former government was involved in the mysterious 1961 death of United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. The UN’s response comes after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Wednesday […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.00pm. GOVERNMENT on Wednesday approved state-owned oil-from-gas producer Mossgas’s plans to develop new offshore gas fields at an estimated cost of R2,2-billion. Mossgas chairman Keith Kunene said the development of the EM and associated gas fields in the Bredasdorp Basin will save South Africa more than R1,5-billion a year in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 11.00PM THE United States has attacked two chemical factories on the outskirts of Khartoum in Sudan, and six “terrorist-related facilities” in Afghanistan. In a live broadcast from Martha’s Vinyard before returning to the White House, US President Bill Clinton said the attacks were not only in retaliation for the August […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT in Kimberly | Wednesday 10.00pm. RIGHTWING activist Willem Ratte and 10 accomplices were planning to “take over the government” using anti-tank weaponry, RPG7 rocket launchers and mortars they tried to steal from the Pomfret military base in 1997, the Kimberley Regional Court heard on Wednesday. In his testimony, base commander Colonel Daan van […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 7.30pm. LEISURE giant Kersaf Investments on Tuesday announced sharply improved results for the year to June 30. The management and investment group’s revenues rose 3% to R2,84-billion, while profit increased dramatically 21% to R836,9-million. The combined figures reflect a healthy improvement in margins. Reflecting profits, earnings attributable to shareholders increased […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.30PM. PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela’s office on Wednesday said that an apology from Mineral and Energy Affairs Minister Penuell Maduna to Parliament for breaking the House’s rules by making inappropriate suggestions during a question session should be sufficient, presidential aide Parks Mankahlana said. A multi-party parliamentary committee on Tuesday found Maduna […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Gland | Wednesday 3.15pm. THE African rhino population is slowly growing, in response to intensive conservation work, the World Wide Fund for Nature announced in Gland, Switzerland on Wednesday. The WWF said the known total of all African rhinos grew from 9971 in 1995 to 11065 in 1997 “It may not seem a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.30pm. THE National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union on Wednesday warned that it will entail “quite a lot of work” for it to prevent “infuriated” airport workers from striking later in the week in response to Tuesday’s deadlock in wage negotiations with the Airports Company of South Africa. Nehawu […]
LEONARD NDZHUKULA, Witbank | Wednesday 4.00PM A SENIOR Ekangala magistrates’ court administrative clerk was arrested in a dawn raid on her Lynville township house near Witbank on Wednesday morning after police reportedly linked her to the theft of an estimated R5,2-million from the Ekangala courts. The arrest follows intensive investigations into corruption and cheque fraud […]
ROB DAVIES, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.45PM. KWAZULU-Natal agriculture portfolio committee chairman Maurice Mackenzie on Wednesday night accused the African National Congress of gross political irresponsibility and inciting racial hatred in its response to an anti-poaching operation on a farm in Muden in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands on Sunday. This follows an ANC statement calling for the […]