‘ARE YOU A JEW?’ DISCIPLINARY action may be taken against National Party MP, Willem Odendaal, who offended members of parliament yesterday when he asked ANC MP Andrew Feinstein: “Are you a Jew?” Odendaal asked the question after Feinstein was questioned on whether he is a communist during his speech on the SA Revenue Services budget […]
TUESDAY, 5.00PM: SABOTAGE by officials in the Department of Arts and Culture is hampering the functioning of the Pan South African Language Board, board chair Professor Nxalati Golele told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday. The board was set up a year ago to promote the development of South African languages. But none of the board […]
TUESDAY, 8.30AM SA EXPRESS, jointly owned by SAA and Thebe Investments, has bought six new 50-seater jets from the Canadian company Bombardier, in an R600 milion deal that includes selling six old turboprop planes back to the Canadians. The company, which has annual turnover of R240 million and is said to operate at a profit, […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: THE Federation of Unions of SA (Fedusa) voiced its support yesterday of the move by the Airline Pilots Association of SA and South African Airways to increase air safety over African skies. SAA said over the weekend several African countries will be forced to upgrade their air safety standards or forfeit the overflight […]
TUESDAY, 3.00PM MOST South Africans believe that women have no role in combat and should be accompanied by men in dangerous areas, a poll of 2 200 people by the Human Sciences Research Council and the Institute for Security Studies has revealed. Almost two thirds of respondents said women should not be allowed to join […]
TUESDAY, 12.00NOON: THE SA squad for the May 24 friendly against England at Old Trafford was named yesterday, and Leeds United central defender Lucas Radebe is in the captain’s shoes. Radebe, who led Bafana Bafana in the World Cup qualifier against Zaire last month, is likely to lead the team in the World Cup finals […]
TUESDAY, 3.00PM A LONG-AWAITED report on contamination by three million kilograms of toxic mercury waste stored in KwaZulu-Natal by Thor Chemicals, has blamed ‘a disturbingly careless” attitude by the company, and negligence by the National Party government. Leakage from the stored mercury has contaminated ground water in the area, according to the report of the […]
TUESDAY, 5.00PM A LEVEL two nuclear incident at the Koeberg nuclear power station on Friday, exposing Eskom workers to excessive doses of radiation, was caused by an instrument malfunction, the Council for Nuclear Safety said today which added that it was the second such incident in two months, and that “we will closely monitor Eskom’s […]
TUESDAY, 8.30AM The new Telkom board, announced yesterday, includes five representatives from Telekom Malaysia and SBC Communications in the US, the two new foreign equity partners. Also appointed to the board were two worker representatives, Elias Mosunkutu of the Post and Telecommunications Workers Union and Colin Smith of the Alliance of Telkom Unions. The new […]
TUESDAY, 3.00PM ANC deputy president Thabo Mbeki acknowledged today that “thing had gone wrong” when township self defence units were given arms from ANC caches in the early nineties. Mbeki, leading Truth Commission evidence for the ANC for the second day, had been challenged by commissioner Hanif Vally on whether the ANC had been irresponsible […]