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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]