A HOMEMADE incendiary device was found outside the Pretoria home of Gauteng Freedom Front leader Joseph Chiole at about 6am on Tuesday. Seeing the package marked “a gift to General Viljoen”, Chiole drove it to Viljoen’s home. When the package was inspected at 3.30pm on Tuesday an explosive device consisting of a three quarter full […]
A HOMEMADE incendiary device was found outside the Pretoria home of Gauteng Freedom Front leader Joseph Chiole at about 6am on Tuesday. Seeing the package marked “a gift to General Viljoen”, Chiole drove it to Viljoen’s home. When the package was inspected at 3.30pm on Tuesday an explosive device consisting of a three quarter full […]
THE Golden Lions and Griquas will face each other in the Vodacom Cup final on Saturday at 3.30pm at Ellis Park, it was announced on Monday.
UNEMPLOYMENT will be tackled by the incoming African National Congress, said President Nelson Mandela while campaigning in Sebokeng on Tuesday. Mandela promised that “A major national offensive will be launched against the scourge of unemployment and poverty,” and said “measures to combat unemployment are already in place.” Recognising that unemployment is at a 16-year low, […]
THE Zambian government has given prison facilities for Rwandans convicted of the country’s 1994 genocide. Frederick Chiluba’s administration is about to sign a pact with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for the cells, the Times of Zambia reported. The paper said United Nations court, based in Arusha, northern Tanzania, is negotiating same facilities with […]
SIERRA Leone’s government has expressed opposition to a rebel proposal for a four-year transition coalition, ahead of a round of peace talks on Wednesday between belligerents in the Togolese capital. The government said it “lacked the [constitutional] power” to set up a transitional authority. A call for such a regime is the key proposal made […]
WORKERS at the Ashanti Goldfields Company (AGC), Ghana’s most successful mining company, who have been on strike since May 13, have agreed to resume work, officials said late on Monday. The agreement followed a seven hour meeting held in Accra on Monday afternoon between the management of the company and representatives of the workers, the […]
FOUR days ahead of the handover to a civilian government in Nigeria, bank workers began strike actions demanding better pay and conditions, union officials said. “We have sent out circulars to all our members nationwide. It is a stay-at-home order,” Shuaib Ibrahim, the general secretary of the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Brisbane | Tuesday 2.30pm. THE selection of former Springbok skipper Tiaan Strauss in the Wallaby team has been criticised by a powerful Australian rugby club as sending a mixed message to local players. Strauss was on Monday named as a reserve forward in the Australian team to play Ireland in Brisbane on June […]
TUESDAY, 1.30PM: A R2,4-billion merger is on the cards for Sasol, which is about to buy a 52,6% share in chemicals group AECI from Anglo American Industrial Corporation for around R29 a share. The companies’ cautionary period has been extended by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange until Wednesday. Negotiations have been delayed, despite the exchange of […]