AFRIKANER Weerstandsbeweging leader Eugene Terre’Blanche and one of his generals, Piet “Skiet” Rudolph, have been granted amnesty for their part in the siege of Ventersdorp in which three people died, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee confirmed on Monday. Beeld reports that Terre’Blanche was also granted amnesty for two other incidents: the tarring and […]
WESTERN Dape Director of Public Prosecutions Frank Kahn has referred a docket in which Foreign Affairs official Robert McBride is charged with being an accessory in an assault case, back to the police for further investigation. McBride and a friend are being accused of assaulting a woman at an escort agency in Cape Town. According […]
EIGHT consortia met the Monday noon deadline for bids for the coveted third cellular phone licence. The bidders are: Telenor/Telia Consortium, NextCom Cellular, Afrozone Telecomms, Five Mobile Networks, Africa Speaks, Spatial Cellular, Cell C and Khuluma 084 Cellular. A ninth bidder, Zintatu, failed to meet the 12 noon deadline to deliver 25 copies of their […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Birmingham | Wednesday 10.10am. HERSCHELLE Gibbs spoke on Tuesday for the first time about ”that catch” offered by Steve Waugh and denied he had dropped the ball while celebrating. The South African opener was faced with a simple chance at midwicket to remove Waugh when the Australian captain was on 56 in Sunday’s […]
MONDAY, 1.30AM: FOR months now the South African Grain Information Services (Sagis) and the National Maize Producers Organisation (Nampo) have been releasing conflicting information about the size and pricing of South Africa’s maize crop, information on which the South African Futures Exchange’s agricultural division is basing its maize futures trade. This continual haggling begs the […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM: THE IRISH rugby side silenced their critics when they produced some sparkling rugby at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein, restricting the Springboks to a 37-13 victory margin. The South Africans started brilliantly, with right wing Stefan Terblanche scoring the first of his four tries on debut barely four minutes into the match. […]
LIBYAN leader Moamer Kadhafi visited Soweto on Tuesday and pledged to work for African peace and unity. He said he would strive to attain peaceful solutions to crises afflicting the African continent, in “Sierra Leone, Angola and such countries”. Kadhafi, who arrived in South Africa on Sunday, will be among the guests at president-elect Thabo […]
BOTSWANA’S famed basket industry has hit hard times as natural resources are thin on the ground and the weavers, all women, are turning to more reliable ways to earn a living. The North West district is renowned nationally and internationally for the quality of its baskets, but here the raw ingredients such as palms and […]
MONDAY, 5.30PM: THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange was on the defensive on Monday, with a quiet market holding its breath for developments from Asia, the New York stock exchange, and moves in the local repo rate. Barnard, Jacobs, Mellet dealer Echardt van der Hoven said the market started off on a weak footing, with the Hong […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH AFRICAN heavyweight boxer Corrie Sanders held onto his WBU title at the Mohegan Sun in Conneticut when he beat Bobby Czyz by a technical knockout in the second round of their fight on Saturday morning. Sanders flattened Czyz three times in the first round, and put him down in the second round […]