POLLSMOOR PROBE CORRECTIONAL Services Minister Sipo Mzimela on Thursday appointed an independent two-member board of inquiry into the recent violence at Pollsmoor prison near Cape Town. The inquiry will look into events last Friday, when nearly 200 inmates were hospitalised after being beaten with batons and pistols during a search for weapons and ammunition in […]
THURSDAY, 10.30AM A PILOT project for a multimillion-rand bamboo production project has been launched at Malamulele in Northern Province. The joint venture between the Northern Province Investment Initiative and a Belgian-based company with interests in Europe and the Far East aims to establish modern bamboo farming in the province with the eventual aim the creation […]
THURSDAY, 10.30AM LATEST Reserve Bank credit figures suggest a rate cut late this year, but analysts once again had to contend with mixed signals from the Bank’s statistics. Private sector credit extension increased 16,95% in the year to April, compared to 15,95% in March, somewhat higher than economists had predicted. Month-on-month private sector credit was […]
THURSDAY, 1.00PM: THE British Lions scored a narrow 18-4 win over Border in East London in waterlogged conditions at the Basil Kenyon stadium on Wednesday. Captain Rob Wainwright rescued the team from defeat with a try seven minutes before the end of play. Border kept up a good defence and kept the lead narrow all […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM: MANNING RANGERS secured the Castle Premier League soccer title with their 1-0 win over Bush Bucks in Chatsworth Stadium, near Durban on Wednesday night. Rangers, who have been leading the log for weeks now, needed only one point to win the league, and the goal came in the 33rd minute from Marcus Mphafudi. […]
THURSDAY, 3.00PM LAURENT KABILA, self-proclaimed president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), was due to be officially inaugurated as head of state on Thursday. In terms of a 15-point constitutional decree signed by Kabila on Wednesday, he will assume full executive, legislative and military powers until a new constitution is adopted. None […]
THURSDAY, 5.30PM FORMER Zimbabwe president Canaan Banana has been fired from his voluntary, part-time teaching post at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare. University authorities on Thursday confirmed that Banana, 61, a methodist priest and professor of religious studies, classics, and philosophy, was discharged and had already vacated his office in the arts faculty, where […]
THURSDAY, 5.00PM NORTH-WEST provincial auditor general Bryant Madliwa on Thursday released a report detailing hundreds of millions of rands in unauthorised spending, irregularities in expenses claims, missing vouchers and large-scale theft. The report on the auditor general’s investigation shows that the provincial premier’s office alone was unable to produce documentation to support R3,5-million in spending. […]
THURSDAY, 3.30PM AN African National Congress security guard on Thursday told the Shell House inquest that he heard one of his colleagues firing an AK-47 rifle at a crowd of advancing marchers after their commander gave an order to open fire. The Johannesburg High Court inquest, presided over by Judge Robert Nugent, is probing the […]
WEDNESDAY, 12.00NOON LATEST inflation figures from the Central Statistical Service shows the consumer price index pushing double figures in April, at 9,9%, its highest since topping 10% in June 1995. April inflation showed a 0,3 percentage point increase over the 9,6% in March to give a month-on-month increase of 0,9%, seasonally adjusted to 0,6%. This […]