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 […]
A BLACK police officer was chased by car and then beaten up by four white assailants, police said on Sunday. The victim, who was off-duty, was driving through the town of Potgietersrus, in the northeast of the country, on Saturday night when a car first followed then overtook him, forcing him to pull over. The […]
BRONWEN ROBERTS and OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 7.00pm. THE NAMIBIAN government claims the situation in Caprivi is now under control and several rebels have been arrested. According to Mikka Asino, a spokesman for Namibia’s Home Affairs Ministry, security forces are mopping up rebels hiding in the contested town of Katima Mulilo. The government has […]