MONDAY, 8.30AM PUBLIC WORKS minister Jeff Radebe had to dodge gunfire between rival ANC groups when he arrived to address a meeting in Clermont township, outside Durban. Radebe was to speak alongside provincial housing MEC Peter Miller of the IFP, and to hand out title deeds to residents, at the invitation of the Clermont Civic […]
MONDAY, 11.05AM: BOLAND’S hopes of playing in the semi-finals of the Bankfin Currie Cup, came to an end on Sunday when they lost 38-22 to Free State after trailing 9-10 at halftime in a Currie Cup match in Bloemfontein.Free State will now play against the Western Province in the semi-finals. Boland opened their account in […]
MONDAY, 5.30PM THE ANC and National Party have both lost support since the 1994 elections, with unaligned voters showing potential interest in the new United Democratic Movement of Bantu Holomisa and Roelf Meyer, according to the latest Idasa opinion poll. Idasa public opinion services project manager Dr Bob Mattes told a public forum that the […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM THE SABC, which lost R60 million last year, has made a profit of R72 million in the last six months, it was announced today. SABC spokeswoman Marj Murray attributed the turnaround since March to an “aggressive marketing campaign” to persuade people to pay their licence fees, and to massive corporate restructuring which closed […]
MONDAY, 11.20AM TWO more Richmond men were killed on Sunday night, both of them supporters of the rival United Democratic Movement aligned to local warlord Sifiso Nkabinde. The men were murdered in the Magoda area, an Nkabinde stronghold, in what appears to have been a revenge attack following the previous night’s murder of six ANC […]
MONDAY, 2.40PM: A TWENTY YEAR old playing in his first test, scored a superb 115 off 270 balls to give Pakistan 216 for six on the first day of South Africa’s first full-length test against Pakistan. Pakistan can thank young Ali Naqvi for saving the team from the South African seam bowlers, with the rest […]
MONDAY, 9.50AM: A TEN-man Kaizer Chiefs won their Castle Premier Soccer League match against a youthful Moroka Swallows 1-0 at Ellis Park Stadium on Sunday. Chiefs played for 71 minutes without lethal striker Thembinkosi Biyela after he was given his marching orders by referee Ian Mcleod, for stamping on the “Birds” defender Cleophas Dlodlo. Chiefs’ […]
MONDAY, 10.35AM: SOUTH AFRICA’S emerging hero Hendrik Ramaala broke the long standing South African half marathon record of 60 minutes 11 seconds at the 21km World Championships in Slovakia on Saturday. Ramaala finished fourth in 60 minutes 07sec to break the 10-year old record that was set by Zithulele Sinqe and Mathews Timane in East […]
MONDAY, 1.30PM VEHICLE sales for September were down 0.5 percent from September 1996, but are up by about a thousand sales on August. New car sales were up 3% on last September, but analysts doubt that the strong sales will last into the last quarter of the year as interest rates begin to bite. Exports […]
MONDAY, 9.30AM The conservative Afrikaans Sunday newspaper Rapport raised a political storm yesterday with a front-page report claiming that ANC martyr Chris Hani spent his last night in a hotel with a Transkei air hostess, then returned home without his bodyguards, where he was shot dead. The air hostess, Cookie Ndungane, admits to staying at […]