MONDAY, 4.00PM The national executive committee of the Pan Africanist Congress on Saturday upheld a party discplinary tribunal’s decision to expel former party leader Clarence Makwetu for three years. PAC president Bishop Stanley Mogoba said: “After almost four hours of deliberations on the disciplinary committee’s verdict, the NEC endorsed Mr Makwetu’s expulsion from the party […]
MONDAY, 10.00AM: A CONTROVERSIAL goal by English striker Ian Wright gave England the match on Saturday, in the clash against Bafana Bafana at Manchester’s Old Trafford. Wright admitted afterwards to touching the ball before it went through the posts 16 minutes before the end of play, but the referee passed it, and England won the […]
MONDAY, 8.00AM MPUMALANGA Premier Mathews Phosa moved swiftly on Saturday, firing safety and security MEC Steve Mabona and suspending traffic director Henry Brazer and departmental head Stanley Soko. The three men were blamed by chief magistrate Heinrich Moldenhauer for corruption within the traffic department that allowed the widescale issue of fake drivers’ licences. Phosa, who […]
MONDAY, 8.00AM POLICE CHIEF George Fivaz has been quick to welcome the weekend appointment of SA Breweries boss Meyer Kahn as chief executive of the SA Police. Fivaz said he hoped Kahn would fight for better status, salaries and working conditions for police, and leave him to get on with crime fighting. Deputy President Thabo […]
RAPE CHARGE DROPPED The rape charge against New Zealand rugby wing Roger Randle, 22, is to be dropped. The 31-year-old woman who lodged the rape complaint requested KwaZulu-Natal Attorney-General Tim McNally on Monday to withdraw the charge. She gave no reason for her request. PAGAD IN COURT SIXTEEN Pagad members appeared in the Bellville Magistrate’s […]
MONDAY, 9.30AM ONE hundred new minority unions have registered under the new Labour Relations Act, Business Day reported Monday. Despite being designed to favour majority unions, the Act has inadvertently set the stage for increased labour litigation. As a result, many new unions have been established by labour consultants and lawyers for financial gain. The […]
MONDAY, 8.00AM JUNIOR soldiers in the Sierra Leone army have staged a coup, calling on senior officers and government officials to report to the military barracks. The rebels, whose spokesman is a corporal, say that president Ahmed Kabbah has fled the country. The coup was sparked by rivalry between soldiers and a paramilitary group called […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM: THE British Lions began their South African tour in style with a 39-11 win over Eastern Province XV in Port Elizabeth on Saturday, but not without a fight. The Lions played hard and fast rugby, with skilful tries in the first half four, but then EP fought back to an 11-10 lead and […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM The growth in the small car market, corporate income constraints and changes top fringe benefits taxes have hit the super-luxury end of the new car market, with last year’s sales nearly half of 1995’s figures. While 1995 sales in the category totalled 1 504, last year only 872 units were sold. And the […]
FRIDAY, 4.00PM THE Mouthpiece Workers’ Union, which was behind the crippling strike at Anglo American Platinum Mines last year, on Thursday aligned itself with expelled ANC former minister Bantu Holomisa’s National Consultative Forum. On Thursday the union, which has formally applied for registration with the labour department, shared a platform with Holomisa at a Rustenburg […]