THURSDAY, 3.30PM SOUTH Africa has been ranked 90th out of 175 countries on this year’s United Nations Human Development Index, which provides a country-by-country measure of achievements in terms of life expectancy, educational attainment and adjusted real income. According to UN Development Programme official David Whaley, “South Africa is very difficult because of the inequities […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM: ORLANDO PIRATES are still in the running to overtake Kaizer Chiefs and nab second spot in the Premier Soccer League log, after their 2-0 victory over AmaZulu at FNB Stadium outside Soweto on Wednesday night. After a dull and goalless first half, Pirates’ Jerry Sikhosana scored the first goal in the 83rd minute, […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM THE SA Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has warned parastatal telecoms monopoly Telkom against claiming a monopoly over internet access until Satra has decided whether the internet falls into the category of telecommunications over which Telkom has a statutory monopoly. Satra is currently adjudicating a dispute between Telkom and the Internet Service Providers’ Association arising […]
THURSDAY, 8.30AM THE US rating agency Duff & Phelps, considered the third most influential in the country, has rated South Africa “investment grade” which should immediately improve South Africa’s standing in the US. One of the other “big three” investment agencies, Moodies, gave SA an “investment grade” rating several months ago. The finance ministry was […]
THURSDAY, 2.30PM A FORMER bodyguard of African National Congress stalwart Walter Sisulu told the Shell House inquest on Wednesday how he had fired on a group of advancing protesters with an AK-47 assault rifle after being given a “repel” order by security chief Gary Kruser. Eddie Khumalo told the inquest into the deaths of 19 […]
THURSDAY, 3.30PM THE Human Rights Committee on Thursday told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that between 1960 and 1989, at least 1 750 children died in political violence in SA, and another 517 were killed between 1990 and April 1994. Addressing special commission hearings on child and youth victims in Johannesburg, the committee added that […]
THURSDAY, 8.30AM RESERVE BANK governor Chris Stals, at a conference in Warsaw, was reported last night (Wednesday) to have hinted that the ceiling for individual South African investment abroad will be set at around R160 000. Stals said the figure would only be settled next week, but would be in the region of R160 000. […]
LESOTHO WALK-OUT OPPOSITION parties in the Lesotho parliament on Thursday walked out for the second consecutive day in protest at Prime Minister Dr Ntsu Mokhehle’s new government, which they call illegal. Members of the Basotholand Congress Party and Sefate Democratic Union leader Bofihla Mkuebe walked out at the end of question time. Mokhehle at the […]
THURSDAY, 2.30PM THE Angolan government has signed a deal with former rebel movement Unita in which Unita is granted two diamond concessions in the country’s central and southern provinces, according to an official in the mining ministry. The deal was apparently approved at the end of May by the council of ministers, headed by President […]
THURSDAY, 4.30PM SOUTHERN African states seeking a reversal of the Cites ivory trade ban scored a tactical victory on Wednesday when a procedural committee approved the continued use of secret ballots in votes no motions proposed at the conference in Harare of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. The decision has led to […]