MONDAY, 11.00AM MORE than 150 South African Aids patients were enticed into a drug testing programme run by Swiss pharmaceutical multinational Roche after Johannesburg Aids experts falsely claimed they would receive free drugs for life. The patients entered an 80-week programme run with Wits University and Johannesburg Hospital which dramatically halted deterioration in their conditions, […]
MONDAY, 2.30PM ANGOLAN state radio on Sunday accused former rebel movement Unita of mobilising troops in the northern province of Uige, in the region of renewed fighting that is threatening the country’s fragile peace. The radio quoted vice-governor of defence in the province, Fernando Jose Kenge, as saying heavily armed Unita troops had been seen […]
MONDAY, 8.30AM: ERNIE ELS won the US Open at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda Maryland on Sunday, showing his true class as he wore away his opponents in a terrible war of attrition. “It is always a war on the golf course, and this time I won,” said Els. “It was great competition out there […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM MOHALE MAHANYELE, executive chairman of the troubled National Sorgum Breweries, has offered to quit after weekend press reports accusing him of extravagant spending. An auditor’s report leaked to the press reveals that he spent R168 736 on cellphone expenses, R277 131 on his company credit card and R231 256 on “other expenses”. It […]
MONDAY, 3.00PM: SOUTH African Charl Mathus has won the 1997 Comrades Marathon. This year’s race was run downhill from Pietermaritzburg to Durban, and Matheus narrowly missed breaking Bruce Fordyce’s down record time. First Woman home was American favourite Ann Trason, who won last year’s women’s race. The victory was a special one for Matheus, who […]
MONDAY, 8.30AM BUSINESS leaders have come to an agreement with Johannesburg’s city council that closed circuit television cameras will be installed on streets throughout the central business district by the end of the year. Central Johannesburg partnership director Neil Frazer announced that a team had visited Britian to study the impact of such cameras, and […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM: PETRUS PADI narrowly beat George Mbatha by a unanimous judges points decision in their catchweight fight at Orange Farm on Saturday. The judges awarded Padi two more points on average than his opponent, in a closely contested game. Mbatha’s disappointed manager, Jeff Ellis, said it was only through Padi’s suberb fitness that he […]
JUNE 16 YOUTH DAY IN commemoration of the thousands of children who died in the struggle against apartheid education which came to a head in the Soweto uprising of June 16 1976, today is celebrated as the Youth Day public holiday in South Africa. ANOTHER NAT JUMPS ANOTHER senior member of the National Party has […]
MONDAY, 12.00NOON: THE British Lions beat Currie Cup titleholders and Super 12 quarterfinalists Natal Sharks 42-12 in their match on Saturday in Durban. Natal wouldn’t have had a chance if not for the numerous penalty opportunities presented by the Lions, although Lions’ Neil Jenkins got to kick in six penalties as well. It was a […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM ZIMBABWE has threatened to sell off ivory stockpiles in contravention of the ban on trade in elephant products if the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species votes against its proposal to legalise ivory sales. Environment minister Chen Chimutengwende was quoted in the Herald newspaper at the weekend as saying that Cites ”will […]