FRIDAY, 11.00AM PARASTATAL Development Bank of Southern Africa is on the verge of securing a R750-million credit line from the African Development Bank, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Thursday. Manuel added that the Land Bank and Industrial Development Corporation are also seeking loans. Speaking at the Afrivan Development Bank annual meeting, Manuel said the […]
paramilitary training Ann Eveleth SOUTH AFRICAN conservation groups are pursuing lucrative business in paramilitary training across Southern Africa, according to a report released this week by the Network of Independent Monitors (NIM). The report names a number of organisations involved in the trade, including Wildlands Trust, an organisation headed by Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu […]
Mail & Guardian Reporter ONE of the suspected killers of Eliakim ”Pro” Khumalo, Samson Masithulele, who escaped from police cells in Soweto earlier this week, was rearrested two days later. Lawrence Mazimba (22) and Masithulele (20) are due to stand trial in September for the murder of Khumalo. The father of Bafana Bafana star Doctor […]
FINE ART: Julia Teale ONE is immediately struck by the quiet ”presentness” of Steven Inggs’s recent works on paper. The rather worn appearance of the gallery – its large, rectangular, black-slate floor and somewhat shabby box- board walls – is suffused with a contemplative mood, not unlike what one might experience in a sunlit cemetery […]
THURSDAY, 12.00NOON: THE South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) has had to reduc the number of drug tests conducted during the British Lions tour of South Africa because of a lapse in government funding. Sarfu medical officer Dr Ismail Jakoet said Sarfu will only cut down the number of tests done. Only one player per […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM: AMANDA COETZER did it again, beating Amy Frazier (USA) 7-6, 6-4 in the second round of the French Open in Paris on Wednesday. The only other South African to score a victory on Wednesday was men’s doubles player Piet Norval. Norval partnered British Neil Broad to win 6-3,6-2 over Byron Black of Zimbabwe […]
THURSDAY, 8.00AM GAUTENG Premier Tokyo Sexwale plans to leave politics in 1999, and has informed both the president and deputy president of his decision, his office announced yesterday. No reasons were given, but Sexwale’s career in the ANC appears to have been blocked following public clashes with Thabo Mbeki last year and the nomination of […]
THURSDAY, 3.30PM THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Thursday publicly released the confidential annexure to the African National Congress’s second submission to the commission, but the names of suspected police spies were deleted to comply with an Appellate Division ruling that alleged perpetrators be given 21 days warning before being exposed. Stressing the commission’s commitment […]
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 […]