COPS BURGLED THIEVES broke into Cape Town’s new eastern metropolitan police headquaters in Bellville on Wednesday night, and stole a TV set, a computer, portable radios and personal items of staff members. The front door was apparently left open on Wednesday night by building contractors who were finishing renovations to the building. HUGE PUBLIC SERVICE […]
THURSDAY, 1.00PM: WESTERN Province will play their Bankfin Currie Cup match against Border at Newlands on Sunday without their captain Dick Muir, because of injuries. Muir, who is expected to return next week for the game against Boland, will be replaced by Robbie Fleck. WESTERN PROVINCE: Justin Swart, Andy Marinos, Christain Stewart, Robbie Fleck, Simon […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM SASOL Technology said on Wednesday it has established an alliance with four international oil companies to develop new processes for the conversion of natural gas into synthesis gas. The alliance will develop Sasol’s new gas conversion technology which, the company claims, reduces the capital and energy costs of synthesis gas production. The other […]
THURSDAY, 1.00PM: MAMELODI Sundowns and Nigerian striker Raphael Chukwu has not arrived for pre-season training. Sundowns coach Stanley “Screamer” Tshabalala said he knows that Chukwu is still in Nigeria and, contrary to the club’s code of conduct, has extended his leave. “This is unacceptable and I am going to have strong words with him when […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM INTERNATIONAL diamond cartel De Beers on Wednesday failed to secure the purchase of diamonds from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Miba mine, after being outbid at an auction by Belgian company Susskind. De Beers has been the sole purchaser of Miba’s diamonds for more than a decade. According to Maurice Nabahola, adviser to […]
THURSDAY, 1.00PM: ORLANDO Pirates have released three players — Naughty Mokeona, Sidwell Maboe and Vincent Sokhela — to AmaZulu in exchange with midfielder Simon Magagula. AmaZulu manager Lawrence Ngubane confirmed the move: ”We need players more than money, that is why we decided to swap Magagula instead of selling him.” Magagula, who is at present […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM THE African National Congress has accused the police of participation in the massacre of five party members — three of them newly elected town councillors — in Richmond in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands. The five, councillors Bhekumusa Mchunu and his cousin Mbongiseni Mchunu, both 25, and Boy Dhlamini, Mduduzi Mtungwa and Mshiyeni Nyide were […]
WEDNESDAY, 5.30PM SOUTH Africa is to resume arms sales to Rwanda, National Conventional Arms Control Committee chairman Kader Asmal said on Wednesday. Asmal said the decision was prompted by changed circumstances in Rwanda and the need for that country to restore peace and order. Asmal also confirmed that the committee in August last year approved […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM TWO newly elected African National Congress councillors in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands town of Richmond were shot dead on Tuesday night together with three other party members in the nearby Simozomeni township. Richmond mayor Andrew Ravagaloo said all five were dragged from a house in the township and shot execution style. He said it […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM THE Dow Jones industrial index leapt back over the 8 000-point mark on Tuesday following US Federal Reserve chairman Allan Greenspan’s mid-year economic report to Congress, in which he said that inflationary pressures had remained tame. Greeenspan’s view on inflation is widely shared, but markets were nonetheless jittery prior to his address to […]