ANDY COLQUHOUN, Cape Town | Thursday 5.00pm THE South African Rugby Football Union is girding itself for a legal battle over its right to introduce quotas to Currie Cup rugby. Senior figures within the sport’s provincial unions and more particularly among the players are understood to have sought counsel’s opinion. They have been advised that […]
THE opening of the Gender Commission office in Parliament is the first step towards addressing the imbalances between men and women in the decision-making process, commission chair Joyce Seroke said on Wednesday. Speaking at the launch of the Gender Commission’s parliamentary and Western Cape offices, Seroke said the office in parliament would focus on gender […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 9.35pm THE Johannesburg High Court on Thursday court put struggling East Rand Proprietary Mines (ERPM) into final liquidation, forcing the mine to cease operations immediately, ERPM’s liquidators said on Thursday. “ERPM is now in final liquidation. The mining operations have ceased today due to a lack of funds. The workers […]
THE Eastern Province rugby team to play the Natal Sharks in a Bankfin Currie Cup match in Port Elizabeth on Sunday has been named. The team: Ricardo Loubscher, Dale Heidtmann, Tobi de Jager, Ronnie Fourie, Nardi Lombard; Graeme Bouwer, Chad Alcock; Jacques Greeff, Barry Pinnock, Elandre van Jaarsveld, Nelis Swart, Botha Rossouw, Baksteen Nell, Vorster […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 9.30pm THE Congress of South African Trade Unions’s newly elected general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has asked for an urgent meeting behind closed doors with the tripartite alliance after African National Congress chairman Patrick Lekota publicly rebuked Cosatu. Speaking at Cosatu’s special congress in Midrand on Wednesday, Lekota warned Cosatu leaders […]
SOME 2000 demonstrators descended on Thursday on the ruins of a pharmaceutical plant in the Sudanese capital Khartoum targetted by United States missiles a year ago, demanding justice to be served against the US. The crowd of mainly boys and girls brought to the site by school buses chanted anti-US slogans such as “Down, Down […]
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MALAWI police plan to prosecute 52 opposition protesters arrested during a demonstration in Blantyre on Tuesday. Police spokesman Oliver Soko said the demonstration had to be broken up because the application to hold it had been rejected. The opposition supporters defied the warning and went ahead only to be met by heavily armed policemen who […]
THE declining trend in manufacturing production, which started in the middle of 1997, has continued throughout 1999, showing a 0,7% decrease for the second quarter of the year. Statistics South Africa said on Thursday that lower production was reported in 20 of the 27 major manufacturing divisions in the second quarter. The major contributors to […]
THE petrol price is likely to rise by more than 10 cents a litre on September 1, the Department of Minerals and Energy said on Tuesday. The department’s petroleum director, Theunis Burger, said consumers have been paying an average of nine cents a litre too little for their petrol over the period July 26 to […]