Former LeisureNet boss Peter Gardener on Monday conceded that he should have disclosed his interest in a German gym operation that LeisureNet bought out. Gardener was being cross-examined in the Cape High Court on issues of corporate governance in LeisureNet and its previous incarnation, the Health and Racquet Club Group.
United States President George Bush called on Monday for the urgent deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping force to southern Lebanon to shore up a week-old truce between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas. He said there will be another UN resolution on the rules for such a force. ”First things first will be to get the rules of engagement clear,” he told a news conference in Washington.
Seismic monitoring networks need to be improved and monitoring should continue, a panel examining seismic events in gold-mining areas said on Monday. The panel was appointed after the 5,3-magnitude quake in Stilfontein last year that killed two people and injured several dozen others.
Police were ”worried” on Monday after a fifth man allegedly involved in the burglary of a Benoni police safe was killed, a spokesperson said. One of the three police officers arrested in connection with the theft, 40-year-old Inspector Khomani Robert Mashele, was gunned down in his Kempton Park home early on Monday morning.
Former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni is to begin serving time in prison for fraud this week after his final bid to challenge his 2003 sentence failed on Monday. The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein dismissed his application for leave to appeal against the four-year prison sentence.
Smoking scenes in Tom and Jerry cartoons are now banned in Britain, following a viewer’s complaint to the government agency that polices the airwaves. In one episode of the classic United States cartoon series, Tom is seen smoking a roll-up cigarette in a bid to impress a female cat.
Inner Johannesburg and its surrounding areas suffered an electricity blackout on Monday, Johannesburg City Power said. Spokesperson Kgaladi Ncube said the blackout was traced back to a substation and that there was a problem with one of the transformers. ”Areas in the north and south-east of Johannesburg were affected.”
A photograph stored on a hijacker’s cellphone has led to his arrest, Ekurhuleni metro police said on Monday. Metro spokesperson Vusi Mabanga said a man was robbed of his Volkswagen Golf at gunpoint in Reiger Park on the East Rand on Friday. On Saturday, the victim and his friend searched for the stolen vehicle.
The National Democratic Convention’s (Nadeco) national executive committee has come out in support of a Pietermaritzburg High Court ruling last week that the party’s members should choose their leaders. The court ordered two camps within Nadeco to hold an inaugural federal congress to choose the party’s office bearers.
Indian music legend Bismillah Khan, who enthralled generations with his shehnai, an Indian wind instrument, died on August 21 of a heart attack, hospital officials said. He was 90. Khan, a recipient of India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, or Jewel India, had been ailing for months.