RAPE CHARGE DROPPED The rape charge against New Zealand rugby wing Roger Randle, 22, is to be dropped. The 31-year-old woman who lodged the rape complaint requested KwaZulu-Natal Attorney-General Tim McNally on Monday to withdraw the charge. She gave no reason for her request. PAGAD IN COURT SIXTEEN Pagad members appeared in the Bellville Magistrate’s […]

MONDAY, 9.30AM ONE hundred new minority unions have registered under the new Labour Relations Act, Business Day reported Monday. Despite being designed to favour majority unions, the Act has inadvertently set the stage for increased labour litigation. As a result, many new unions have been established by labour consultants and lawyers for financial gain. The […]

MONDAY, 8.00AM JUNIOR soldiers in the Sierra Leone army have staged a coup, calling on senior officers and government officials to report to the military barracks. The rebels, whose spokesman is a corporal, say that president Ahmed Kabbah has fled the country. The coup was sparked by rivalry between soldiers and a paramilitary group called […]

MONDAY, 11.00AM: THE British Lions began their South African tour in style with a 39-11 win over Eastern Province XV in Port Elizabeth on Saturday, but not without a fight. The Lions played hard and fast rugby, with skilful tries in the first half four, but then EP fought back to an 11-10 lead and […]

MONDAY, 10.30AM The growth in the small car market, corporate income constraints and changes top fringe benefits taxes have hit the super-luxury end of the new car market, with last year’s sales nearly half of 1995’s figures. While 1995 sales in the category totalled 1 504, last year only 872 units were sold. And the […]

FRIDAY, 4.00PM THE Mouthpiece Workers’ Union, which was behind the crippling strike at Anglo American Platinum Mines last year, on Thursday aligned itself with expelled ANC former minister Bantu Holomisa’s National Consultative Forum. On Thursday the union, which has formally applied for registration with the labour department, shared a platform with Holomisa at a Rustenburg […]

KEITH RICHBURG’S article, “Thank God my ancestor got out” (May 16 to 22), appears as an interesting coincidence. The very same week, in my Afro-American poetry class, I have been explaining to my students why, in spite of lying at the bottom of the social heap for centuries, Afro-Americans would not countenance the idea of […]

Taking on England on their hometurf is a formidable task for Bafana Bafana who have yet to prove that they can win away matches SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi THE South African national soccer team should know a lot more about itself come Saturday night after facing England in a friendly promising to attract a near- capacity […]

Bongani Ndodana WITH the new policy on the arts, Dr Malan’s bust, perched in its shrine in the Nico Malan opera foyer, has witnessed the unceremonious undoing of the Cape Performing Arts Board (Capab). First it was the frantic campaign to save the orchestra, then ballet went independent under the banner of Cape Town City […]

FRIDAY, 10.30AM THE Reserve Bank has mopped up about R4,8-billion which entered the money market as a result of the sale of a stake in Telkom to a US/Malaysian consortium. The Telkom sale brought about $1,2-billion into the country, prompting the Bank action to prevent a fall in interest rates. According to Reserve Bank governor […]