MONDAY, 3.00PM VLAKPLAAS killer-cop squad founder General JJ Viktor on Monday denied ordering security policemen to petrol bomb the homes of activists in 1986. It was only a suggestion, Viktor said. At a hearing of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee, Viktor also denied giving a general order to eliminate activists. Viktor was testifying […]
MONDAY, 5.30PM THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee on Monday postponed the amnesty hearing of the killers of SA Communist Party leader Chris Hani to August 11. The decision, announced by committee chairman Judge Hassen Mall at a hearing in the Benoni town hall, was greeted with cries of “viva SACP” by party supporters […]
MONDAY, 5.30PM EDUCATION Minister Sibusiso Bengu is to appeal against the judgment of the Cape Town High Court that set aside the teacher redeployment process. (See below). “The Minister of Education has been advised that there is a reasonable prospect that another court may make a different decision,” the Education Department said in statement on […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM ROUTINE changes to indices on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Friday led to hard feelings when brokerages firms RMB and UBS bought and sold stock to match the new indices, causing huge rises in some shares and massive falls in others. The JSE makes changes to its size-based indices twice a year, and […]
MONDAY, 8.30AM SOME 600 associations around the country, including residents’ associations and farmers’ groups, will protest against crime on Tuesday by blockading city roads between dawn and 9.00AM as a result of a call by the SA Guild of Motoring Journalists. Even pilots may join the protests by refusing to fly. A major transport company […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM ACCORDING to the latest Reserve Bank Quarterly Report, real fixed investment by local authorities and parastatals showed healthy growth in the first quarter of this year, suggesting that infrastructure growth based on the Reconstruction and Development Programme is getting under way. The Bank’s figures ahow that public corporations increased investment by an annualised […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM: MARIUS CORBETT scored another world championship qualifying mark in the javelin event at the Southern Region Athletics championships in Durban on Sunday, with a personal best of 83,56m. Corbett has secured a place on the plane to Athens for the world championships in August, but things are not as certain for Hestrie Storbeck, […]
MONDAY, 8.00AM: WITH injuries to several key players, a demoralised ‘Bok team face a British Lions team determined to win again in Durban on Saturday to clinch the test series. The Lions won 25-16 over the Springboks at Newlands on Saturday. The Bok team will be under immense pressure to perform, with the prospect ahead […]
MONDAY, 4.00PM MILITIA loyal to former Congolese dictator Denis Sassou Nguesso fired heavy weapons at the parliament in Brazzaville on Monday, after sporadic fighting resumed in the Congo capital on Sunday. Violating a ceasefire, the rebels are firing to prevent the swearing-in of the constitutional council, which is to decide whether elections scheduled for July […]
MONDAY, 12.00 NOON: ANDREW MATABOLA made another successful defence of his South African featherweight title, after a fifth-round technical knockout win over challenger Terrence Nkosi, to win the Old Buck championship belt at Nasrec outside Johannesburg on Sunday. Nkosi didn’t put up much of a fight – he was knocked down twice in the fourth […]