TUESDAY, 8.00AM THE PAC yesterday admitted to the murder of a mother and two teenage children south of Johannesburg in 1993 — for which three ANC men were jailed. Zandra Mitchley, her son Shaun and his friend Claire Silberbauer, were murdered in an attack that injured several other family members. Two Umkhonto we Sizwe cadres, […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s all gold index followed bullion’s latest recovery on Friday, picking up 27,7 points to close at 992 (after an intraday high of 1 005,1) as gold rallied $4,80 to $324,20/oz. Analysts, however, remain cautious about gold’s fortunes, saying the situation is nothing to get excited about, and a rally […]
MONDAY, 8.00AM GAUTENG health MEC Amos Masondo is leading the race for the provincial premiership, after winning the support of the ANC, the communist party, Cosatu and the SA National Civics Organisation at a marathon seven hour meeting yesterday (Sunday). Trailing Masondo is deputy provincial chairman Mathole Motshekga, supported by the ANC Youth League and […]
MONDAY, 3.30PM THE African National Congress had won four of the five contested wards in Sunday’s by-election in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands town of Richmond, scoring a landslide victory over its main rival in the area, the National Consultative Forum. Leader of the forum in the area, fired ANC MPL Sifiso Nkabinde suffered a humiliating defeat, […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: TWO South Africans finished in the top 10 in the British Open at Royal Troon on Sunday. US Open champion Ernie Els and Retief Goosen finished 10 shots adrift of the champion Justin Leonard of the US. Els carded his second 69 in a row to total 282 to share the 10th place […]
MONDAY, 5.00PM THE Pan Africanist Congress will not apologise for its liberation struggle activities during the apartheid era, although a few military mistakes had admittedly taken place, PAC secretary general Michael Muendane said on Monday. Muendane also revealed for the first time why the PAC’s armed wing, the Azanian People’s Liberation Army, targeted St James […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: SPRINGBOK centre Jappie Mulder was on Sunday ruled out of the Tri-Nations tour of Australia because of injuries. Mulder was injured in the first Test match against the British Lions. He has been advised to rest for two weeks and is expected to come back against the Wallabies on August 23 at Loftus […]
MONDAY, 4.00PM AS peace talks between rival Congolese factions continued in the absence of President Pascal Lissouba in the Gabonese capital of Libreville on Monday, Congo’s constitutional council announced that elections set for July 27 had been postponed and Lissouba’s mandate extended. The delegation representing Lissouba’s rival and predecessor Denis Sassou Nguesso turned up for […]
DENEL SUES THREE PAPERS ARMS manufacturer Denel is suing the three Sunday newspapers in the Independent Group for an article revealing details of an R7-billion weapons export deal to an unnamed Middle East country. Denel had earlier attempted to stop publication with an urgent court interdict. Denel has not denied the deal, but objects to […]
MONDAY, 4.00PM ZIMBABWEAN war veterans, who stormed the country’s parliament last week to demand pension pay-outs from a government war veterans’ fund, at the weekend mobbed cabinet ministers who were to address them, forcing the ministers to flee for their safety. President Robert Mugabe’s government called a series of meetings with veterans around the country […]