THE Democratic Republic of Congo’s central bank has devalued the Congolese franc, dropping its exchange rate to the dollar from 2,9 to 4,5, a fall of 55%. The new rate, announced on Wednesday, is “realistic,” according to Finance Minister Bemba Saolona. The devaluation comes on the heels of price hikes of up to 500% for […]
A RIGHTWINGER, who earlier this year received amnesty for 32 acts of terror, on Friday threatened to resume bombings in solidarity with Chris Hani’s assassins who were denied amnesty earlier this week for the SA Communist Party leader’s murder. Dries Kriel, secretary-general of the Boereweerstandsbeweging, in a statement on Friday said he wanted the Truth […]
The World Health Organisation on Friday confirmed a polio outbreak in Angola which has reportedly paralysed 200 children, but the agency said it still aimes to eradicate the disease globally by the end of 2000. The agency said virology experts in South Africa had confirmed polio after examining stool samples taken from the paralysed children […]
FORMER SA Defence Force special forces member Noel Robey told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Thursday how Mamelodi activists Dr Fabian Ribeiro and his wife Florence were murdered in 1986. Robey told the TRC’s amnesty committee that the murders were committed by two unknown special forces members from Northern Namibia. He said he was […]
AN Egyptian and a Tanzanian suspected of taking part in the deadly bombing of the United States embassy in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam last year are due to appear before a resident magistrate again on Friday. This development in the drawn-out case follows the release by the United States FBI of a long-awaited […]
THURSDAY, 1.00PM: TOURING Super 12 teams that have grown used to having the red carpet rolled out for them by the Natal Rugby Union will be disappointed. The NRU has decided to give all Super 12 teams the cold shoulder after the suspension of flanker Wickus van Heerden’s 18 month ban for biting New South […]
A CANADIAN national, wanted in his country for defrauding the government of C$1,16-million is to petition the South African chief justice to have his extradition stopped. Michael Levitt appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Friday and had his case remanded to May 6. The Canadian government issued a warrant of arrest for Levitt on […]
Ann Eveleth Four years ago President Nelson Mandela jetted into Weenen – the “place of weeping” – to preach the gospel of government land reform to an audience of landless farmworkers, insecure labour tenants and recalcitrant white farmers. Launching KwaZulu-Natal’s R35-million pilot land reform programme in 1995, Mandela promised to reverse land apartheid and bridge […]
The choice of the former editor of the Financial Mail, Nigel Bruce, as a leading candidate for the Democratic Party is somehow symptomatic of the forthcoming general election in South Africa. If there is one party we would expect to be looking forward to June 2 it is the DP. After all, it seems to […]
David Shapshak Product: NOKIA 9110 cellphone/personal digital assistant James Bond has one. The Saint has one, and now you can have one too. The Nokia 9110 is the latest must have for the mobile warrior. It looks like a cellphone, albeit a slightly bigger version than the current smaller-is-cooler vogue, but with a click it’s […]