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 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.00PM THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released documents which point to the involvement of the former South African government in the mysterious 1961 death of United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. TRC head of investigations Dumisa Ntsebeza said he acquired the documents while investigating another matter. He said they have […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 7.30pm. LEISURE giant Kersaf Investments on Tuesday announced sharply improved results for the year to June 30. The management and investment group’s revenues rose 3% to R2,84-billion, while profit increased dramatically 21% to R836,9-million. The combined figures reflect a healthy improvement in margins. Reflecting profits, earnings attributable to shareholders increased […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.30PM. PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela’s office on Wednesday said that an apology from Mineral and Energy Affairs Minister Penuell Maduna to Parliament for breaking the House’s rules by making inappropriate suggestions during a question session should be sufficient, presidential aide Parks Mankahlana said. A multi-party parliamentary committee on Tuesday found Maduna […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Wednesday 10.30AM. INVESTIGATORS from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday raided a downtown Nairobi hotel, where the massive bomb that blew up the American embassy two weeks ago is believed to have been assembled. The Daily Nation reports that Mohammed Saddiq Howaida (also known as Mohammed Saddiq Odeh), […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 9.00PM. TEN former security policemen, including former commissioner General Johann Coetzee and ex-Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock, are seeking amnesty for a series of attacks against anti-apartheid activists in the 1980s. The applications to the Truth and Reconciliation amnesty committee are for offences such as the murder of Ruth First, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Mafikeng | Monday 10.00PM. ARGUMENT in mitigation of sentence in the trial of former Bophuthatswana president Lucas Mangope started in the Mafikeng High Court on Monday. SABC television news reported that sentencing was expected this week. Mangope has been found guilty on 102 counts of theft involving R3,5 million, including mining royalties paid […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT in Johannesburg | Monday 4.30pm. POST and Telecommunications Minister Jay Naidoo on Monday expressed concern at the slow response of small and medium-sized businesses (SMMEs) in addressing the Millenium Bug, warning that, should the Year 2000 problem not be addressed in a holistic way, “society as we know it could disintegrate”. Qualifying his […]