SUN International Hotels annouced on Tuesday that it is to buy the Desert Inn hotel and casino in Las Vegas from Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide for $275-million. The complex has 715 rooms, an 18-hole golf course and 32 acres of undeveloped land. Starwood owns the Sheraton and Westin hotel chains.
THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee hearing into the 1992 Boipatong massacre was thrown into disarray on Wednesday when a woman who was sexually assaulted in the attack queried the manner of her cross-examination and refused to answer questions. Attorney Rian Strydom fell foul of the committee as he questioned Molete about her sister’s […]
AN inspector stationed at the Hout Bay police station was on Wednesday arrested by the Independent Complaints Directorate and will face charges of murder, defeating the ends of justice and perjury, according to ICD regional director Riaz Saloojee. Saloojee said the policeman allegedly shot and killed a man said to have been involved in a […]
PHILLIP NKOSI, Machadodorp | Thursday 2.15pm. A POLICEMAN from Diepkloof in Soweto was arrested on Wednesday after he and a gang of men allegedly tried to hijack a car on the N4 highway in Mpumalanga. Police spokesman Captain Izak van Zyl said the policeman was arrested when two other police officers drove by and saw […]
THE second of five toll gates on the multi-billion rand Maputo Development Corridor was opened on Tuesday. Trans-African Concessions (Trac) CEO Trevor Jackson said that the company has implemented a comprehensive incident management system along most of the route. He said the system integrated the services of Trac patrol vehicles, local emergency services, and protection […]
THE African National Congress on Wednesday reacted with anger to an announcement by the Independent Broadcasting Authority allocating times for political party election broadcasts. The broadcasts — prepared by political parties to inform voters of their policies — will be run unedited between May 19 and 31. The ANC was allocated the most broadcast time […]
GHANA will host the Zone 3 qualifying competition for the All-Africa Games from July 10-18. Winners at this stage will go on to the finals held in Johannesburg from September 10-19. Fixtures: July 10 – Burkina Faso v Ghana, Liberia v Nigeria July 12 – Burkina Faso v Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire v Nigeria July 14 […]
THE European Union has given Swaziland an estimated US $1,3-million as part of a regional initiative to help the country deal with the economic impact of a South Africa-EU trade agreement signed earlier this year. Economist Pierre Bide of the EU in Swaziland said on Wednesday: “The idea is help Swaziland cope with any fall […]
MANAGEMENT at a Billiton’s Richards Bay Aluminium smelter plant in KwaZulu-Natal barred Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin from addressing 1200 workers, SABC radio news said on Wednesday. Erwin was invited to visit the plant by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa. Numsa spokesperson Dumisa Ntuli said the company refused a request from […]
GAUTENG daily,The Star, on Wednesday endorsed the African National Congress for the June 2 election but called on Gauteng voters to back the Democratic Party in the provincial poll. In its editorial, the newspaper said the ANC has an imperfect record in Gauteng where the majority of its readers reside. Newspapers that have publicly backed […]