FORMER Griquas Craven Week rugby player, Dries Scholtz, has been moved from centre to right wing in the place of the injured Rodger Smith (broken rib), for Friday night’s Bankfin Currie Cup match against the Boland Cavaliers at the Absa Park Stadium. Edrich Lubbe returns at centre, and Pierre Uys, after a lengthy injury lay-off, […]
ESKOM on Thursday asked the Johannesburg Labour Court to set aside an arbitration ruling which found the company guilty of unfair labour practice. This followed a ruling by a private arbitrator that by appointing a coloured applicant who scored less points than her white counterpart in the screening interview, the company had discriminated against the […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Friday 12.15pm. ECONOMIC conditions are likely to improve in 1999/2000 as declines in retailing and manufacturing appear to have hit bottom, according to a report issued by Stellenbosch University’s Bureau for Economic Research on Friday. The only worry on the horizon is that sustained job losses or a failure of job […]
POLICE say the investigation into the assassination of liberal Afrikaner theologian, Professor Johann Heyns has been completed, and that the docket will be forwarded to the National Director of Public Prosecutions within a month. Police have identified a suspect or suspects and possible motive for the mysterious murder of the ex-moderator of the NG Kerk […]
POLICE watchdog the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) is alarmed at the number of suspects dying while in police custody in a report issued on Friday. Figures released by the ICD, show that 756 crime suspects were either killed by police during arrests or died in police custody from May last year to March this year. […]
THE Border Bulldogs field an unchanged side for their Bankfin Currie Cup match against North West in Potchefstroom Friday. Border, who have set their sights on a top 10 finish, have two matches remaining. They play Boland away and are at home to the Mpumalanga Pumas. Despite North West’s low position in the log, Border […]
SPRINGBOKS Breyton Paulse and Bob Skinstad will bolster Western Province for Friday’s Currie Cup clash against Northern Free State in Welkom. Skinstad, who will captain the side while Rob Brink is rested after playing 23 games out of 24 this season, clearly needs more match fitness before returning to the national team’s starting line-up. Both […]
BRITISH banking giant Barclays announced on Thursday that it is axing a further 1000 jobs, this time from its international staff and mainly in Africa, as it reported a sharp fall in first-half pre-tax profits. Pre-tax profit fell more than 24% to 970-million although operating profit advanced by 6%. Barclays said that following its decision […]
Wally Mbhele The ashes of former leader of the Anti- Apartheid Movement Father Trevor Huddleston have been unceremoniously buried – more than a year after they were locked in a dusty safe at the Church of Christ the King in Sophiatown. The British Daily Telegraph newspaper reported this week that Huddleston’s ashes were buried last […]
Cameron Duodu Letter from the North I have been trying to read the “discussion” on the Daily Mail & Guardian website, on Chris McGreal’s article in The Guardian under the headline “The hate that won’t go away” (reproduced in the Mail & Guardian as “Abuse deeply routed in the land”, July 30 to August 5), […]