WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM: THE first leg of the 1998 Rothmans Cup soccer competition got under way on Tuesday with preliminary round matches in Cape Town and Durban. Seven Stars beat AmaZulu 2-1 in their match at the Chatsworth stadium in Durban. George Dernaley and Jerome Jansen scored for Stars, while Simon Magagula saved face for AmaZulu. […]
RWANDA has announced it will lift visa requirements for US citizens, to reciprocate a similar move by the US government. Rwandan Foreign Minister Augustine Iyamuremye told the Rwanda News Agency the new US visa regulations allow a free five-year multiple entry visa for Rwandans seeking to pursue studies, tourism and business. The Rwandan government had […]
TWO men will appear in the Alberton magistrate’s court on Friday in connection with the slaying of seven people in Mandela Park in Thokoza on the East Rand on Monday night. Gauteng assistant police commissioner Len van Tonder on Thursday morning said the two men, who were taken in for questioning on Tuesday, will face […]
ONE of South Africa’s foremost experts on shipwrecks, particularly off the Eastern Cape coast, says claims that the wreck of the Waratah has been discovered cannot be officially accepted until there is firm evidence. Gideon Smit, a conservationist at the East London Museum, said the evidence would have to be in the form of identifiable […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Thursday 12.45pm. A NEW regulatory body, the Micro Finance Regulatory Council, want to register small-scale moneylenders who are exempted from control by the Usury Act by September of this year. The new council will be responsible for pawn-brokers, small banks, and small business lenders. Speaking at the Wednesday media conference launching […]
SHARON HAMMOND, Nelspruit | Thursday 2.35pm. MPUMALANGA launched its own Tourism Safety and Security Task Group this week in response to growing overseas concerns about crime in South Africa. Secretary of the task group, Driekie Venter, said on Thursday that though the crime rate in the province was not as high as in Gauteng, the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 4.00pm. ABSA has strongly denied reports that it had failed to hand over documentation to the Heath special investigation unit which is investigating financial assistance provided to Bankorp between 1985 and 1992. Referring to recent media statements attributed to Judge Willem Heath, Koos Wepener, GM: Group Legal Services for Absa, […]
THE Organisation of African Unity has appointed an Algerian army general to head a joint military commission to monitor a ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Zambian cabinet minister said on Thursday. The minister in the Zambian president’s office, Eric Silwamba, told state radio that the appointment was made by OAU Secretary General […]
FRENCH President Jacques Chirac arrived in the Guinean capital Conakry on Wednesday afternoon on a day’s visit, the first leg of a tour that will also take him to Nigeria, Cameroon and Togo. Chirac was met on arrival by President Lansana Conte. The two leaders held bilateral talks on Wednesday night. Chirac will also take […]
DENMARK on Thursday pledged US$215-million to a range of rural development projects in Mozambique. The money, set to be released in stages over the next four years, includes grants for massive health, education, water supply, and agriculture projects. A press release from the Danish embassy in Maputo said on Thursday that the grants were the […]