THURSDAY, 5.00PM GHANA has expelled a senior United States diplomat for “activities unacceptable for a diplomat”. Nicolas Robertson, head of US Information Service in Accra, appears to have intervened in the trial of two independent newspaper editors, on charge for libel after accusing government officials of dealing in drugs to buy arms. The acting Ghanaian […]
THURSDAY, 2.30PM THOUSANDS of banking staff marched in Pretoria and on Parliament in Cape Town on Thursday in protest at the recent spate of bank robberies. During the last 10 months of 1996, there were 506 bank robberies in SA, 193 of them in Gauteng. There have already been over 50 bank robberies in Gauteng […]
THURSDAY, 2.30PM The moratorium on new police recruitment, in place since August 1994, has been suspended with immediate effect, Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi announced on Thursday. Mufamadi said an additional 5 250 new police officers and civilians will be appointed over the next three months, at a cost of R150-million. Mufamadi said the […]
The West owes the region a debt of support "not as a question of charity, but because we are entitled to it," says Mandela.
THURSDAY, 10.30AM MINERAL and Energy Affairs Minister on Wednesday detailed far-reaching plans to restructure the energy, mining and petroleum industries, including consolidating Central Energy Fund companies and other state assets into a major public energy company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchenge. In his maiden budget speech to Parliament, Maduna said the new energy company […]
THURSDAY, 8.00AM DEFENCE MINISTER Joe Modise put on a spectacular fireworks display for delegates to a world anti-landmine conference, detonating the first of 4 700 mines at the remote Alkantpan army base in the Northern Cape. South Africa will destroy some R39-million worth of landmines in 18 more explosions over a five-month period ending in […]
THURSDAY, 10.00AM: DARRON Smit of Auckland caused an upset when he beat Neil Burkett 21-12 in the Absa Insurance South Africa Men’s Bowls Championships in Killarney on Wednesday. Meanwhile Mark Kromhout also defeated SA champ Robbie Rayfield 21-12 in the quarterfinals. Gerry Baker remained in fine form — he beat KWV’s Stoffel Lambrecht 21-14 and […]
THURSDAY, 12.00NOON: THE British Lions management announced their team for the match against Eastern Province XV on Saturday, with tour captain Martin Johnson having been left out of the game. Prop Jason Leonard will lead the team in Port Elizabeth while Johnson rests, manager Fran Cotton said yesterday. “A lot of the guys have played […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM The soon-to-be-privatised Sun Air is only likely to realise between R50-million and R90-million — much less than the R200-milion originally estimated, government sources said on Tuesday. With the deadline of Thursday for finalists to make non-binding offers on the airline, it is suggested that the paucity of information on its operations will keep […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM: CRAIGHALL Park A took out defending champions Durbanville at the Absa South Africa Bowls men’s fours championships at Wanderers in Johannesburg yesterday. Craighall Park A, under former world champion Doug Watson, won the match 21-11. Durbanville captain George McKelvey said: “No regrets. We were outplayed all the way down the line. In fact […]