WEDNESDAY, 4.30PM A DRAFT Bill to make the SA Revenue Service autonmous from the public service was presented to parliament on Wednesday. Sars staff will become an institution outside the public service, but staff will remain members of the government pension fund. An advisory board consisting of a commissioner, two senior Sars employees and up […]
THURSDAY, 1.00PM: THE SA Professional Golf Association has called for clarity over broadcast sponsorship rights to the 1998 SA Open golf championship, after rival cellphone networks Vodacom and MTN both claimed exclusive rights. The PGA board has called for copies of the contracts between the SA Open and the two rival sponsors. The PGA’s executive […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: KAIZER Chiefs signed on a new coach this week — Frenchman Paul Dolezar will replace Wellington Manyathi for a two-year contract from next month. Chiefs PRO Louis Tshakoane said Dolezar has been the national coach of Gabon, and has also coached in the Middle East and Ghana. “Dolezar arrives next week and we […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM: STAND-IN coaches Wim Hollander and Koos Ehlers took over the training of the Gauteng Lions team on Wednesday, in the wake of resignations from the senior coaching team, Ray Mordt, Tito Lupini and Hugo van As. The new coaches are there as a stopgap measure, as Gauteng president Louis Luyt turned down the […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM RESERVE Bank governor Dr Chris Stals on Wednesday once again dashed hopes of an early interest rate cut, when he said there will be no rate as long as money supply and credit growth remain high. Acknowledging that since SA’s return to global markets, interpretation of credit and money supply figures had changed, […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM: SPRINGBOK rugby stars James Small and captain Gary Teichmann have been declared fit to play in the first Test against the British Lions at Newlands on Saturday. The two have recovered fully from the injuries they picked up during the Test against Tonga last Tuesday. They rejoined the squad for a tentative training […]
THURSDAY, 5.00PM FOLLOWING a month of violence between rival taxi groups servicing Soshanguve north of Pretoria, residents, who have been caught in the crossfire, have called for a 10-week taxi boycott in the area in a bid to end the violence. The recent violence has claimed the lives of 22 people, many of them taxi […]
THURSDAY, 8.30AM The giant South African mining house Gencor will transform itself into an internationally diversified mining group, splitting into two separate companies, one based in London, it was announced yesterday. The gold and platinum mining interests will remain with Gencor itself, which will remain listed on the JSE. All other interests, including mining of […]
MP’s SISTER MURDERED The mutilated body of Letitia Lindt, sister of Pan Africanist Congress MP Patricia de Lille, was discovered near Kuilsriver late on Monday. De Lille said on Tuesday: “Her mutilated body was found on a farm near Wallacedene squatter camp … she is the latest victim of barbaric acts of criminals who have […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM FOLLOWING the outcry by the medical aid industry about a proposed dispensing fee to be charged by pharmacists, United SA Pharmacies, which represents half of SA’s pharmacists, on Tuesday announced that from July 28, most of SA’s 1 750 pharmacies will sell prescription medicines on a cost plus R17,10 flat fee basis. Responding […]