MINISTER of Minerals and Energy Affairs Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Thursday the government plans to create an electricity distribution company separate from state-owned electricity giant Eskom. “The distribution section of Eskom will be completely outside Eskom and will form the new electricity distribution company,” Mlambo-Ngcuka told a media briefing in parliament. The minister said the […]
EMSIE FERREIRA, Cape Town | Sunday 4.00pm THREE people were killed and 220 injured when buildings collapsed during a storm in the Cape Town suburb of Manenberg early on Sunday, police said. The raging wind also ripped the roofs off homes and schools in the nearby black townships of Gugulethu and Nyanga where about 2000 […]
THE criteria and procedures for registration of tertiary education institutions are to be reviewed in the next few months, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Thursday. Asmal was launching the popular Mail & Guardian Graduate Careers Fair which will run at the Baxter Theatre until August 28. Asmal said he is committed to the development […]
SUSPECTED international terrorist leader Osama Ben Laden is a renegade former employee of the United States Central Intelligence Agency — according to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi in an interview published on Friday. “Osama Ben Laden is one of those naive Moslems who were duped by the United States and were used to fight the former […]
THE Free State Cheetahs have included three of their Springboks in their line-up for Friday night’s Bankfin Currie Cup rugby match against the Gauteng Falcons at Brakpan. Naka Drotske, Andre Venter and Os du Randt will be back in Free State colours. Brendan Venter and Jannie de Beer were not considered as they are injured. […]
GAFFIE DU TOIT has been named at fullback while the fit-again captain and eighthman, Janneman Brand, and fly-half Boeta Wessels return to the Griqualand West line-up for their final round robin Bankfin Currie Cup rugby match against Western Province at the Absa Park Stadium on Saturday afternoon. With first-choice leftwing Jearus Nicholas out with an […]
KABAKA (King) Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II of Buganda — Uganda’s wealthiest province — wed 35-year-old Sylvia Nagginda Luswata at a colourful ceremony in Kampala on Friday attended by hundreds of people including Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. The head of Uganda’s most influential kingdom exchanged vows with the Nabagereka (Queen), a journalist. At 43, Kabaka Mutebi […]
FORMER IBF world junior featherweight boxing champion Vuyani Bungu and five other top boxers at East London’s prestigious Eyethu stable face the biggest fight of their lives — against the Receiver of Revenue who has promised no mercy in recovering more than R1-million in unpaid taxes. And the boxers, through their trainer Mzi Mnguni who […]
BRONWEN ROBERTS, Johannesburg | Friday 9.45am SOME 10000 coal and gold miners are all due back at work on Friday after wage settlements were reached to end a week-long strike, the Chamber of Mines said on Thursday. The miners stopped work last Friday at South Africa’s two main coal producers and a handful of minor […]
THE Pretoria High Court on Thursday ordered that certain privileges be returned to awaiting-trial prisoners, The Star reports. The case was brought by five awaiting-trial prisoners who challenged last year’s decision by the Department of Correctional Services to clamp down on prisoners’ privileges. The order by Acting Judge Sam Maritz applies only to awaiting trial-prisoners, […]