OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.00AM. THE boys from Highland High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, provided one of the biggest surprises in the finals of the World Schools Rugby championships played in Harare on Tuesday. The American boys, playing for third and fourth spot against Tonga’s Tupou College, beat the boys from the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Windhoek | Thursday 9.00pm. ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba has accused Unita rebels in Angola of defying the 1994 peace accords signed in Lusaka in an attempt to end 16 years of civil war. Chiluba appealed to Unita on Wednesday night to support current United Nations mediation to restore peace in the Southern African […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Thursday 10.00pm. AFRICAN National Congress protesters in KwaZulu Natal are planning to march on the offices of KZN attorney-general Tim McNally and provincial police commissioner Chris Serfontein to demand their resignations. The marches will be part of a programme of mass action by the ANC in KZN to protest against the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9pm. FILLING stations around South Africa are running dry with no end in sight to the strike by 47000 members of the Chemical Workers’ Industrial Union. No negotiations took place on Wednesday, and no meetings are planned, CWIU president Welile Nolingo said, although he expects “some approaches or initiatives from […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.00PM. GENERAL Siphiwe Nyanda, the former MK Transvaal commander and current chief of the SA National Defence Force, was the mastermind behind the 1987 Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court bombing, former MK member Solly Shoke told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee on Wednesday. Four policemen died and 14 other people […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Leeds | Wednesday 11.30AM. THE South African cricket squad on Tuesday thwarted attempts by the English media to turn the series-deciding fifth Test at Headingley into a Donald-bashing party. The South African team refused to talk to the press after net practice on Tuesday, following the comments made by Allan Donald on the […]
SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Tuesday, 3.00pm. THE total numbers of liquidations in the second quarter of 1998 rose a staggering 59,3% to 1034, from 649 liquidations in the previous quarters, the latest figures from the Central Statistical Services released on Tuesday indicate. The increase reflects a 21,6% increase compared with liquidations in the second quarter […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Wednesday 9.00PM. A SUSPECT wanted in connection with a body found in a shallow grave near Richmond has died in while being pursued by police in a high-speed car chase. Police wished to question farmer Neville Garrod, 59, and his son Ian Wayne Garrod, after the body of their domestic worker, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg| Wednesday 4.00pm. THE Katz Commission of Inquiry into tax structures on Wednesday proposed that a provincial surcharge on the national fuel levy be added to boost the revenue of provinces. In a report released on Wednesday, the commission said such a levy could be raised with relative ease at a lower-tier level, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 8.30PM. JUSTICE Minister Dullah Omar on Wednesday announced a project which will prevent dangerous criminals being released on bail. According to Omar the project entails a computer link between courts and the police’s Criminal Record Centre in Pretoria, effectively giving courts access to all crime suspects’ previous conviction records. Omar’s […]