WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM: THE Castle Premier Soccer League awards ceremony was held in Johannesburg on Tuesday night. League leaders Manning Rangers, who were awarded R500 000 for their performance, were given a further R50 000 for being the most impoved team of the season. Umtata Bush Bucks star Wilfred Mugeyi walked away with the most honours […]
TUESDAY, 4.00PM THE Medical Association of South Africa on Wednesday admitted it had closed ranks to protect doctors implicated in human rights abuses and conceded it had been complacent in opposing apartheid policies and had practised racial discrimination by allowing black and white patients to be treated separately. Presenting Masa’s submission to the Truth and […]
WEDNESDAY, 4.30PM SIERRA Leonean coup leader Major Johnny Paul Koroma on Tuesday installed himself as the country’s president, and pladged to work towards national reconciliation and the eventual restoration of democracy. “We are committed to bringing this country to lasting peace and then eventually to returning the country to a democratically elected government,” Koroma said […]
TUESDAY, 4.00PM THE Harare summit of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species on Wednesday narrowly outvoted a South African proposal to resume trade in rhino horn. With 60 votes for the proposal and 32 against, South Africa was three votes short of the required two-thirds majority, in a show of hands vote after […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.45PM: THE British Lions made mincemeat of the Emerging Springboks on Tuesday, beating them 51-22 in Wellington. But Lions coach Ian McGeechan was still not impressed with his team. He said there was a spell when they looked “bloody awful” and that they were showed up at times by the good rugby played by […]
TUESDAY, 2.30PM LABOUR federation the Congress of SA Trade Unions on Tuesday called for an end to negotiations in the National Economic Development and Labour Council on the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill, and proposed that the Bill be sent straigh to Parliament for a decision on disputed areas of the Bill. In a press […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange experienced its biggest one-day fall in 10 weeks on Tuesday, with the all share index closing 79,4 points (1,1%) down at 7 192,1 points, mainly as a result of nervousness ahead of Friday’s futures close-out. While the industrial fell slightly, shedding 49,7 points (0,59%) to close on 8 432,7, […]
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 […]