MONDAY, 3.00PM: THE United Cricket Board has named the players to be offered contracts for the next season, to represent South Africa over 1997/1998. The team will tour to Pakistan, England and Australia, and in return Pakistan and Sri Lanka will visit South Africa. The players are: Hansie Cronje, Brian McMillan, David Richardson, Fanie de […]
NIGERIA BAN ON UK PLANES NIGERIA has banned all British aircraft from its airspace. No reason has been given for the ban, but it follows the British government’s refusal to renew the Nigeria Airways permit to operate its lucrative Lagos-London route. Nigeria Airways was suspended last year from flying to London because its flights did […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM GOVERNMENT’S financial team has received a new blow with the resignation of Hannes Smit, the director general of state expenditure, which comes hard on the heels of last week’s announcement that SA Revenue Service CEO Piet Liebenberg had resigned. Smit announced on Friday that he will not renew his service contract when it […]
MONDAY, 4.00PM INTRUDERS at the weekend broke into the Pretoria offices of the Gender Commission and sprayed an office with a white “poison-like” substance, commissioner Thenjiwe Mtintso said on Monday morning. Mtintso said when she arrived at her office after the weekend, she noticed the door had been forced open. “My whole office was covered […]
MONDAY, 2.00PM: ORLANDO PIRATES won the second leg of their clash against Caps United of Zimbabwe 1-0 yesterday, and their 3-1 aggregate overall takes them through to the quarterfinals of the African Champions Cup. Caps tried hard in the first half, almost scoring twice — once when Morgan Nkatazo missed the net by inches with […]
FRIDAY, 6.00PM ZAIRE’S president Mobutu Sese Seko fled from Kinshasa today (Friday). The Zairean government announced that “the president has decided to stand aside in order not to appear as an obstacle to a negotiated settlement and to constitutional order.” “Marshal Mobutu has left it to his government to carry on running the political life […]
Hip-hoppers Prophets of da City in The 15- minute Interview. By MARIA MCCLOY MM: You’ve been recording for seven years. Has it been difficult? Shaheen: It’s been hard, but I’m glad we’ve been through it – all types of crazy-shit censorship – but we had to because we were the country’s only hip-hop group. We […]
Maria McCloy POP star Brenda Fassie says she will sue the music magazine e’Vibe for printing an interview with her that never took place. “I hate it, I’m pissed off with it, and my lawyers are going to be dealing with this and I’m going to be suing them for half-a- million rand,” said the […]
Another year, another Bandslam, another phase in the South African rock revival, another review from MALU VAN LEEUWEN … ANOTHER Bandslam. Another five bands, another 1300 people, another six hours of exchanging sweat, smoke and beery conversation. Having your feet crunched by Arno Carstens as he pogos on your boots. Having to shout your bar […]
WEDNESDAY, 8.30AM THE RESERVE Bank told parliament yesterday that the average household debt in South Africa is 67% of disposable income “exceeding the international average of comparable countries by a considerable margin”. The Bank said that the number of home loans grew by 38%, but the level of arrears also grew 24% to R5 billion. […]