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/ 8 November 1996
Prison warders gave prior warning of an escape in which some of their colleagues were involved, writes Ann Eveleth T HREE prisoners awaiting trial for taxi violence escaped from prison near Durban on Sunday with inside help.nnThe warders who allegedly helped the men get out of Westville Prison were also linked to the taxi industry, […]
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/ 8 November 1996
An article published by Rapport has sparked a fierce row between two leading Afrikaners, writes Rehana Rossouw MOST readers who take umbrage against an article which appears in a newspaper will write one letter to the editor and leave it at that. But an unusual row has developed at Rapport between its editor, Izak de […]
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/ 8 November 1996
CHARLES BESTER of Stutterheim (M&G November 1 to 7) surely has his head buried in the sand. If he listened carefully to my argument, he would understand why we need a navy. Our country has a 3 000km coastline, an Extended Economic Zone 200 nautical miles from our shores, which doubles our sovereign territory, fish […]
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/ 8 November 1996
Clive Barker has assembled his strongest sqaud to date, and he will need all the talent he can get in the vital World Cup match against Zaire SOCCER:Andrew Muchineripi NATIONAL coach Clive Barker this week described Saturday’s World Cup qualifying game against Zaire as the “most important game of my life, and one that we […]
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/ 8 November 1996
Mungo Soggot A JOHANNESBURG businessman who fled from his R205-million marathon fraud trial to Australia could become the second alleged foreign exchange fraudster this month to be reeled in from exile. Edward Dutton (38), former managing director of hardboard company Interboard, will appear in court in Sydney on November 18 to fight a South African […]
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/ 8 November 1996
Surprised to be invited to this month’s SANDF `live firepower demonstration’, Sheen Duncan, human rights campaigner, wrote this letter to the defence force chief, Brigadier van Graan I HAVE received the invitation from General Georg Meiring to the fireworks display on November 16 (at the Army Battle School, Lohatle). I do not understand how my […]
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/ 8 November 1996
Iden Wetherell in Harare THE recent disclosure that a Malaysian company has secured logging rights in Zimbabwe’s pristine forest reserves has set alarm bells ringing in Harare. The move represents a further incursion by the Malaysians who have recently taken a large slice of the country’s power utility, moved into the troubled telecoms sector, and […]
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/ 8 November 1996
Transnet has fired a key executive just four months after he was appointed. Are the surviving executives up to the job of managing one of the country’s biggest businesses? Stuart Hess reports TRANSNET has fired executive director Sipho Nyawo following an independent investigation into credit card abuse. The parastatal briefed Minister of Public Enterprises Stella […]
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/ 8 November 1996
With the National Working Committee stepping in to take control of the Free State, Terror Lekota has been given a second chance to be a premier, reports Gaye Davis FREE STATE Premier Terror Lekota has been thrown a lifeline by the African National Congress national leadership’s dramatic intervention in the faction-torn region – but to […]
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/ 8 November 1996
Rehana Rossouw THE campaign against gangsterism and drugs will intensify in the next few weeks and Cape Town’s Waterfront could see more protests, People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) said this week. Last weekend, Achmat Najjaar, the brother of a prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Thafier Najjaar, was shot and killed during a clash with the […]