MONDAY, 9.00AM: Moroka Swallows thumped Michau Warriors 2-0 at Rand Stadium in Johannesburg on Sunday, giving them a three point boost in the league log. The first goal came just before half-time, when Joseph Rapelago passed the ball to defender Mark Byrne, who promptly netted it. The next goal came after much tense playing in […]
MONDAY, 1.30PM THE ANC’s submission to the Truth Commission today was the first by a political party to make actual revelations about past transgressions, including the murder of ‘spies’ in its ranks, and bomb attacks on commercial targets. Among today’s revelations: Bartholomew Hlapane, a member of the ANC national executive and of the SA Communist […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM: SOUTH AFRICAN heavyweight Franscois Botha had a 10th round knockout win over James Stanton of Philadelphia on Sunday, to bag the World Boxing association North American heavyweight title. Stanton looked good in the third and fourth rounds, but in the tenth Botha finished him off. “I took my time. I wanted to work […]
STRIKE POSTPONED A STRIKE planned by the Congress of South African Trade Unions to protest against the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill has been postponed to June 2 and replaced with lunchtime demonstrations. Cosatu acted after the Labour Appeal Court found the federation had not first discussed its objections to the Bill at meetings of […]
Trout may be the favourite fish of South African anglers, but they are dangerous interlopers who wreak havoc on our ecosystems, argues Jim Cambray BETWEEN 1850 and 1950, there was a dramatic increase in the rate of animal extinctions, which coincided with European colonial expansion. Many alien plants and creatures were introduced to colonised territories, […]
attention Jacquie Golding-Duffy THE new umbrella body for editors – the South African National Editors Forum (Sanef) – has quietly being taking strides towards addressing imbalances in the print, broadcasting and radio industries. Since its inception in October, four working groups have been created to tackle issues which have been identified as “needing urgent attention […]
FRIDAY, 10.30AM KWAZULU-NATAL-based food group Illovo Sugar has acquired 94,25% of Swaziland-based Lonrho Sugar for R13,90 a share in a R1,6-billion deal to create the biggest sugar producer in Africa. The bulk (R1,1-billion) of the deal will be financed by a new rights issue of 129,8-million Illovo shares at R8,50 each. CG Smith Foods, which […]
Trying to broker a peace treaty in Zaire was not plain sailing, reports Ivor Powell from the deck of SAS Outeniqua THE score or so of journalists who had been quartered on the fo’castle of the SAS Outeniqua for three days – exotically studded in among the winches and anchor cables and miles of rope […]
Madikizela-Mandela has not delivered as leader of the ANC Women’s League in the past, and herrhetoric may presage the death of the organisation, writes Rhoda Kadalie THE re-election of Winnie Madikizela- Mandela as president of the African National Congress Women’s League is more a reflection of the weakness of the organisation than it is a […]
Kader Asmal has quietly lifted South Africa’s embargo on arms to Turkey, which has killed thousands and displaced millions of Kurds. Marion Edmunds reports SOUTH AFRICA has quietly lifted its embargo on arms sales to Turkey. Minister of Water and Forestry Affairs, Kader Asmal, who presides over regulation of government arms sales, said this week […]