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 […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH AFRICAN opener Gary Kirsten scored his second half-century, to add to two centuries, in his sixth first-class innings on tour in England on the final day of the three-day match against Sussex at Arundel. The match was interrupted by intermittent rain, resulting in the abandonment of the match before the final session […]
THE legislature sitting during which the KwaZulu-Natal premier and legislature members will be sworn in has been postponed from Tuesday to Friday. ANC spokesperson Ina Cronje said the decision was taken at a meeting involving all political parties held in Pietermaritzburg on Monday following an IFP request. Cronje said all parties agreed that the sitting […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 12.20pm. DEMOCRATIC PARTY leader and new head of the official opposition Tony Leon took over New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk’s seat in the National Assembly on Monday at the start of the swearing-in of the 400 MPs returned in the June 2 poll. United Democratic Movement leader […]
RUSSIA is ready to sell civilian helicopters and planes to Libya. President Boris Yeltsin in May signed a decree confirming the resumption of diplomatic and economic cooperation between the two countries, which were interrupted by UN Security Council sanctions against Tripoli. Russia will also deliver arms to Libya, where experts are already preparing the terrain […]
FOR one week now Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been experiencing a water shortage which has forced residents to recycle water from polluted sources. Sources at the Water Production and Distribution Board suggested the water crisis was due to a shortage of chlorine, a chemical used to treat potable water. […]
THE new R620-million Skuifraam Dam to be built in the vicinity of Franschhoek and Paarl in the Western Cape will add a yield of 56-million cubic metres a year to the current water supply system for Cape Town and surrounding areas. Business Day reports that, unlike past practices of simply building dams when water was […]
POP singer Brenda Fassie’s former husband Nhlanhla Mbambo appeared briefly in the Johannesburg Regional Court on Monday on charges of attempted murder and attempted car hijacking. Mbambo (31) and his two co-accused, Darius Petlele (28), and Pule Mdluli (35), were arrested on Saturday after an extended chase through the streets of Hillbrow. It is alleged […]
TWENTY Sudanese travellers have died of thirst in the Libyan desert in recent days, the Akhbar al-Youm daily reported on Tuesday. Thirteen people died after the truck they were travelling in towards neighboring Libya broke down near the border a few days ago. The other 52 people who had been travelling with them managed to […]
Mondeor residents have arrested three suspects in connection with last Thursday’s killing of a school teacher, police said on Monday. Two men and a woman were apprehended by members of the public over the weekend and taken to the Mondeor police station for questioning, according to police spokesperson Inspector Mary Martins-Engelbrecht. Nandi Mhlongo, (31), was […]