FRIDAY, 6.00PM The agreement reached on Thursday between Gauteng Democratic Party leader Peter Leon and new Johannesburg police area commissioner Isak Pretorius that all six entrances to Alexandra township will be blockaded by police and army has drawn sharp reaction from safety and security MEC Jessie Duarte. Reacting “with utter dismay and serious concern” to […]
With a Test against the awesome All Blacks next weekend there doesn’t seem to be enough time to solve the Springbok problems or enough talent to plug the gaping holes left by injuries RUGBY:Steve Morris DESPITE the assurances of as respected a voice as the great Pinetree, Colin Meads, that Springbok rugby is at a […]
Mungo Soggot and Christian Figenschou SOUTH AFRICA’S main nuclear waste dump has been leaking radioactive material for years. Metal drums filled with radioactive waste and buried at the Atomic Energy Corporation’s (AEC) Vaalputs site in the Northern Cape have leaked, while concrete blocks used to contain more dangerous waste have also failed. Documents in the […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM TRANSPORT Minister Mac Maharaj has accepted proposals on the easing of the Mulitlateral Motor Vehicle Accident fund’s growing deficit, which will likely see the fuel levy that finances the fund being increased. Special adviser to the minister Joel Joffe said on Wednesday: “Every month that passes without changing the system adds R160-million to […]
THURSDAY, 10.30AM NATIONAL Sorghum Breweries chairman and CEO Mohale Mahanyele resigned his positions on Wednesday. Following a long board meeting, Mahanyele “elected to resign” because he does not want to be seen as an “impediment” to the growth of the company. He said he will join an investment company as chairman. The company said he […]
THURSDAY, 3.30PM DEPUTY President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday announced the names of the five-member Independent Electoral Commission to oversee the 1999 general election. The commissioners, who will serve on a part-time basis, are: Brigilia Bam, Judge Johann Kriegler, NF Mpulwana, Fanie van der Merwe and Professor Herbert Vilikazi. Presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana said the chair […]
THURSDAY, 8.00AM ROELF MEYER, who on Monday announced a formal deal with Bantu Holomisa to form a joint party, may be close to making a similar deal with Tony Leon’s Democratic Party. Leon was quick this week to welcome the proposed new party, and to say that his own discussions with the two men — […]
THURSDAY, 10.00AM: FOUR of the country’s provincial rugby clubs want a special meeting with the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) to object to a proposal by the Sarfu chief executive last Friday. The union presidents of Natal, Free State and Western Province met in Durban on Wednesday to discuss Rian Oberholzer’s proposal that next […]
THURSDAY, 3.30PM AZANIAN People’s Liberation Army cadre Gcinikhaya Makoma, who was jailed for 23 years for his part in the 1993 St James Church massacre, on Thursday told for the first time how he opened fire indiscriminately on congregants as they attended a Sunday evening service, leaving 11 dead and 58 injured. Makoma pleaded not […]
THURSDAY, 2.00PM SOLDIERS are attempting to form an army trade union, called the SA National Defence Union, and may go to court to force the military to lift its ban on union activities. The union claims that army officers have barred members from organising for the union or wearing union T-shirts, and have insisted that […]