AT LEAST half of the 843 municipalities face financial problems and 151, or about one in six, are in full-blown crisis. Chief director in local government finance at the constitutional development and provincial affairs department, Jackie Manche, told delegates at the South African Local Government Association’s annual general congress in Port Elizabeth that the troubled […]
ORGANISERS of the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester plan to drop one-day cricket but rugby sevens, hockey and netball will remain, the New Zealand Olympic Committee said on Tuesday. Organisers have finalised a list of 14 individual sports and three team sports they planned to host, New Zealand Olympic Committee chief executive Michael Hooper said […]
THE government is to spend R10-million to mark the centenary of the Anglo Boer War. South Africa’s most extensive land war has generally been seen as a battle between the British and the Afrikaners, but it has become increasing evident that the war involved all South Africans and should be remembered by the nation, SABC […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Tuesday 1.45pm. HIGHER inflation figures are unlikely to get in the way of expected interest rate cuts, according to economists reacting to Tuesday’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures released by Statistics South Africa. Overall CPI rose to 7,3%, while core inflation rose to 8,0%. Both indices gained 0,2% on increases in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 1.55pm. THE six men accused of the gang-rape and murder of teenager Valencia Farmer appeared in the Parow regional court on Monday. When they arrived for their bail hearing, a banner-waving crowd of about 200 people chanted “no bail, no bail” and “hang the murderers”. The accused are Glenville Faro, […]
VOTER registration for Mozambique’s presidential and legislative elections kicked off in the country on Tuesday, despite some access and weather problems in northern Niassa, central Sofala and southern Inhambane provinces. The voter registration runs until September 17. It’s the third registration to take place in Mozambique since the 1992 peace agreement ending 16 years of […]
A RECORD 75 million (about $117.5 million) is the expected profit from the rugby union World Cup which starts in two and a half months time, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported in London on Friday. Profits raised from the October 1 to November 6 competition will be passed on to help rugby union development worldwide […]
THE opposition Malawi Congress Party and its coalition partner the Alliance for Democracy returned to parliament on Monday after boycotting Friday’s opening address by President Bakili Muluzi, news reports said. The opposition deputies took up their seats in parliament on Monday to participate in the debate on the president’s address, which is scheduled to last […]
A SHOP selling relics of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, including victims’ bones and skulls, will soon start operating in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania one of the people involved told the Tanzanian Daily Mail.. Among articles to be sold by the group are video cards, ordinary cassettes, victims’ clothes and other items related to the […]
LUKE Hitchings mounted an early assault in the final of the Gunston 500 in Durban on Sunday to claim the title and the R60 000 ($9,780) first prize. Australian Hitchings beat compatriot Koby Abberton into second place with American Adam Replogle third and another Australian, Mick Campbell, in fourth place. Greg Emslie, the last South […]