WEDNESDAY, 3.30PM The crucial final decision on the status of the African elephant in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species will not be made on Wednesday, despite earlier expectations. Following overnight consultations with the three range states seeking the lifting of an international ban in ivory trade, it was agreed a 19-member working […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM: GAUTENG Lions rugby coach Ray Mordt and his assistants Tito Lupini and Hugo van As resigned and refused to coach the team on Tuesday, blaming some “senior World Cup contracted players” for making their jobs impossible. Dr Louis Luyt, president of the South African Rugby Football Union, stepped in to give the Lions […]
WEDNESDAY, 8.00AM PUBLIC servants will be obliged to report cases of fraud, nepotism and maladministration by their colleagues, under a new code of conduct for civil servants, unveiled in parliament yesterday by Public Service Minister Zola Skweyiya. Skweyiya said equivalent codes in other countries like Australia, the US and Uganda had been studied, which revealed […]
TUESDAY, 2.00PM THE SA Medical and Dental Council admitted before the truth commission on Tuesday that it could have done more to ensure the wellbeing of detainees, and that it had displayed “apathy” at the time of the Steve Biko murder, when it decided not to act against doctors implicated in Biko’s death. Former SAMDC […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: THE Wimbledon line-up draw was announced on Tuesday, and the South African players face some tough opposition. Fragile 15-seed Wayne Ferreira will face Scott Draper in the first round. Draper recently dismissed world no-2 Michael Chang, and is in top form. If Ferreira passes the first round, he will come up against notorious […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: THE Premier Soccer League board of governors announced on Tuesday there will be no change in the rule that currently allows the host team of any league match to collect all stadium ticket sales income. Top league teams Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates lodged a complaint with the board to change the rule […]
TUESDAY, 1.30PM VOLKSWAGEN, the largest car builder in Europe, intends to increase output from its SA factory to 100 000 cars a year, from last year’s 67 5000, German newspaper Die Welt reported on Monday. Quoting VW management board member Peter Hartz, Die Welt said VW’s SA plant plans to return to profit next year. […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: KAIZER CHIEFS management is having a rethink about Amakhosi’s participation in the African Caf Cup competition, and whether to go ahead with a planned tour of China in the last week of June. Chiefs’ coach Jeff Butler and the club directors will meet on Tuesday to discuss how financially viable it will be […]
TUESDAY, 8.00AM THE Pan Africanist Congress cancelled its June 16 commemorative rally in Khayelitsha, Cape Town yesterday, after two rival factions of the party came to blows. Supporters of axed PAC president Clarence Makwetu refused to allow deputy secretary general Ike mafole to speak, on the grounds that he had not been elected constitutionally. In […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: SMILING widely for the last five kilometres, it was victory at last for Charl Mattheus who won the down-run Comrades Marathon yesterday, with a time of 5 hours, 28minutes and 37 seconds. The last time Mattheus broke the tape at the finish line was on the up-run in 1992, when he was disqualified […]