OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 3.00pm. THE United Nations on Wednesday night said it will watch with interest a possible South African government investigation into claims that the former government was involved in the mysterious 1961 death of United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. The UN’s response comes after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Wednesday […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT in Cape Town | Wednesday 10.30pm. Only 60% of South Africa’s computer systems will be year 2000 compliant at the turn of the century if the current pace of solving the year 2000 problem (Y2K) does not pick up, Deputy President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday. Speaking at the Castle in Cape Town […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT in Kimberly | Wednesday 10.00pm. RIGHTWING activist Willem Ratte and 10 accomplices were planning to “take over the government” using anti-tank weaponry, RPG7 rocket launchers and mortars they tried to steal from the Pomfret military base in 1997, the Kimberley Regional Court heard on Wednesday. In his testimony, base commander Colonel Daan van […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Gland | Wednesday 3.15pm. THE African rhino population is slowly growing, in response to intensive conservation work, the World Wide Fund for Nature announced in Gland, Switzerland on Wednesday. The WWF said the known total of all African rhinos grew from 9971 in 1995 to 11065 in 1997 “It may not seem a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.00PM. THE Transport and General Workers’ Union and the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union are planning industrial action to protest against a “secret payroll” of the Airports Company of SA’s management. Nehawu spokesman Allistair Charles said the dispute extended to the failure of the comapny to resolve wage […]
LEONARD NDZHUKULA, Witbank | Wednesday 4.00PM A SENIOR Ekangala magistrates’ court administrative clerk was arrested in a dawn raid on her Lynville township house near Witbank on Wednesday morning after police reportedly linked her to the theft of an estimated R5,2-million from the Ekangala courts. The arrest follows intensive investigations into corruption and cheque fraud […]
ROB DAVIES, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.45PM. KWAZULU-Natal agriculture portfolio committee chairman Maurice Mackenzie on Wednesday night accused the African National Congress of gross political irresponsibility and inciting racial hatred in its response to an anti-poaching operation on a farm in Muden in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands on Sunday. This follows an ANC statement calling for the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.45pm. A BI-NATIONAL consortium of South African and Swazi construction companies, led by Grinaker and Wilson Bayley Homes, was on Wednesday awarded a R342,4-million contract to construct the Magugu Dam in Swaziland. Magugu is the second of seven planned dams on the Komati and Lomati rivers in Swaziland and Mpumalanga […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.30pm. THE National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union on Wednesday warned that it will entail “quite a lot of work” for it to prevent “infuriated” airport workers from striking later in the week in response to Tuesday’s deadlock in wage negotiations with the Airports Company of South Africa. Nehawu […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kampala | Wednesday 4.45pm. TRUCKS full of Ugandan troops were spotted heading for the Democratic Republic of Congo border on Sunday and Monday night, reports in Kampala said on Wednesday. The troops were thought to be on their way to back rebels fighting to overthrow DRC President Laurent Kabila. Reports described eight to […]