THE Public Works Department has a 10% “leakage” of funds because of possible fraudulent activities, acting director-general Sivi Gounden said on Monday. Gounden announced that steps are being taken to root out fraud in the department as he revealed the figure at a news conference in Durban. At least one official has been suspended and […]
AT least four people died and five were seriously injured and hundreds left homeless after a veld fire ravaged through their homes in the Mount Frere and Tsolo areas of the Eastern Cape on Monday, police reported. Superintendent Nondumiso Jafta on Tuesday said about 600 houses in the area had been burnt down. More than […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 9.00pm THE African National Congress on Tuesday evening said it is “dissatisfied” with the statement released by Heath Special Investigating Unit earlier in the day on the results of the inquiry into Mpumalanga finance MEC Jacques Modipane role in promissory notes scandal. Speaking at a press briefing in Johannesburg, Mpumalanga […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Perth | Tuesday 3.20pm ECONOMISTS said on Tuesday that Anglo American Plc’s $163-million foray into Australia’s burgeoning nickel laterite industry gives the mining firm a foothold in an industry that is both tested and unconventional. Anglo America announced on Monday that it has agreed to increase its stake in Australian company Anaconda Nickel […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Monday 12.15pm. DONNING the number nine jersey of Springbok captain Joost van der Westhuizen, President Thabo Mbeki gave the embattled world champions a word of encouragement when he made a surprise visit to their training camp in Johannesburg on Monday. The Boks face arch rivals New Zealand on Saturday in a […]
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THE trial of two Zimbabwean journalists facing charges of causing “alarm and despondency” by reporting an alleged coup plot against President Robert Mugabe was on Monday postponed until October. Magistrate Custom Kachambwa pushed the trial of editor Mark Chavunduka and chief reporter Ray Choto back to October 4, pending the outcome of their challenge to […]
CHARLES RABOROKO, a 39 year-old Anchor Comprehensive School teacher, appeared in the Protea Magistrate’s Court in Soweto on Monday in connection with the murder of three of his colleagues at the school last week. Police spokesman Inspector Govindsamy Mariemuthoo said Raboroko’s case has been remanded until August 10 and he is still in police custody. […]
INTERNATIONAL credit rating agency, Fitch Ibca, on Monday affirmed its “BB” long-term foreign currency rating for South Africa. It also confirmed the country’s short-term foreign currency rating of “B” and long-term local currency at “BBB”. The agency said although, South Africa had had a difficult year in 1998, facing large outflows of foreign capital, a […]
THE appeal by South African and Border cricketer Makhaya Ntini against his conviction and sentence for rape, has been postponed in the Grahamstown High Court until October 20, Network Radio News reported on Monday. Ntini was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for raping a 21-year-old woman at the Buffalo Park cricket ground. He is out […]