OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 2.00PM. SESHI CHONCO has resigned as CEO of arms manufacturing parastatal Denel, he claims, because of a conflict of interests. The Sunday Times reports, however, that Chonco was pushed following a long-running dispute with Public Enterprises Minister Stella Sigcau over the pace of his privatisation plans. Chonco says he handed […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.30pm A REBEL army faction has seized power in two eastern towns of the Democratic Republic of Congo and has stated that its aim is to overthrow President Laurent Kabila. Fighting has also been reported in Kinshasa and other centres in the east of the country. Unconfirmed reports say that […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 8.30pm THE July 1988 car bomb explosion at Ellis Park sports stadium, in which two people died and 35 were injured, was not intended to kill anybody, but to send a message to whites that they, too, were vulnerable, a former Umkhonto weSizwe cadre applying for amnesty told the Truth […]
ROB DAVIES, Johannesburg | Sunday 1.00PM. SPRINGBOK wonderboy flyhalf Gaffie du Toit again delivered the goods to steer Griqualand West to a 23-17 victory over Natal at King’s Park in Durban on Saturday. Du Toit, who came on as a substitute in the second half, drilled two drop-goals through the posts in the 64th and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 6.00PM. THE Truth and Reconciliation amnesty committee has granted amnesty to Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) member Nicolaas Willem de Jongh for the bombing of two houses shortly before the 1994 elections. De Jongh, the AWB commander for the Queenstown, Eastern Cape, area and two other AWB members bombed the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 5.00pm A SUSPECTED robber was shot dead and another seriously injured after police intercepted what they believe to be a heist attempt on the Modderfontein Road in Ivory Park, Midrand on Monday. Police spokesman Captain Hannes Lombaard said police were travelling on the Modderfontein Road toward Kempton Park at about […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday 8.00pm A NEW political party, the Zimbabwe People’s Convention, was officially launched in Harare on Saturday to promote democracy, transparency and accountable governance. ZPC spokesman Obey Mudzingwa said at a news conference that Zimbabwe needed political plurality as the current situation had degenerated into a one-man gang. “Political contributions are […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00pm. SANLAM’S chief economist Jac Laubscher said on Monday he concurs with Reserve Bank governor Chris Stals’s assessment that the rand appears to be levelling off, and he would not be surprised to see it dip below the R6 to the dollar mark. Speaking before the National Council of Provinces’ […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cheltenham | Sunday 1.00PM. SOUTH Africa’s final warm-up fixture against Essex failed to get off the ground on Sunday, when a combination of heavy overnight rain and a malfunction in the drainage system resulted in a waterlogged outfield. Play is expected to resume at 3pm. The local fire brigade was called in to […]
Alex Dodd – Milan, Marseille, New York, Rotterdam A short, hard-hitting film about xenophobia in the heart of Johannesburg by local film- maker Zola Maseko has been playing to thunderous applause around the world. This is the first time a film by a black South African director has achieved such widespread international acclaim. The Foreigner […]