STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Wednesday 7.30pm. EIGHTEEN months after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommended that R3-billion be distributed to some 20000 victims of apartheid, the government appears no closer to finalising its reparations policy. “We are committed to honoring our commitments,” President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday but shed little new light on […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 10.30am. THE government was mulling the use of a controversial method to force down the price of drugs, such as Aids treatments, by letting non-patent holders produce medicines cheaper locally, a senior official indicated. The director general of health, Ayanda Ntsaluba said officials had held “exploratory” talks with their […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki said the government is considering increasing the distribution of state-owned land to black farmers to more than the earmarked 15%. Government announced earlier this week that it intended to resettle 70000 black commercial farmers on nearly two million hectares of state-owned land over the next 15 years. “The 15% should not be […]
EMBATTLED former Bafana Bafana soccer coach Philippe Troussier will guide Japan at the King Hassan Cup in Morocco and the Kirin Cup in Tokyo next month, the Japanese Football Association said on Thursday as it considers Troussier’s future. Troussier, whose contract runs out in June, is rumoured to be facing the axe with Arsenal manager […]
MIRIAM ISA, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.00pm. THE rand has manged to hold onto its gains on Thursday — trading at R6,97 to the dollar at 4.30pm. Dealers said that it could strengthen to the R6,88 level over the next day or two if it manages to hold its present level and if there is no […]
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WORKERS affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions downed tools across the country on Wednesday to protest job losses and unemployment plaguing the economy. In Durban, police fired teargas at about 300 residents of the Lamontville township who were trying to force others to heed the strike call, police said. The mob stoned […]
UGANDAN army troops shelled Rwandan positions overnight at an airport near rebel-held Kisangani in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Rwandan officer said on Tuesday. The incident came three days after bloody clashes in Kisangani between the erstwhile allies backing rebels against the government of President Laurent Kabila, and followed an agreement […]
TEN people have been killed in a minibus accident inthe Free State. A minibus taxi veered off a bridge and caught fire, provincial police said on Tuesday. Six people were seriously injured in the accident. The minibus was heading from Maseru, in Lesotho, to Johannesburg. All passengers are thought to be Lesotho citizens. The driver […]
SOUTH African companies have emerged as leading contenders for controlling stakes in two Nigerian firms in a move analysts said underlined the growing economic ties between Africa’s two dominant countries. The Nigerian privatisation agency said that South Africa’s Addax Holdings SA had offered 1,3 billion naira 30%, of oil marketing company Unipetrol The Bureau of […]