WEDNESDAY, 4.30PM The senate of the University of South Africa on Tuesday voted to suspend university management under rector Professor Marinus Wiechers and to set up an interim management board to run the university. In order for the proposal to become reality, it has still to be passed by the university council, its highest decision-making […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM SOUTH African wine exports to the United Kingdom increased by 48%, to 833 265 cases, in the first quarter of this year, despite predictions that wine exports would level off. The growth in exports to the UK took place alongside huge increases in exports of SA wines around the world. SA wine exports […]
WEDNESDAY, 5.30PM THE KwaZulu-Natal African National Congress Wednesday called on provincial attorney-general Tim McNally to resign immediately after he dropped charges against six men accused of murdering Princess Nonhlanhla Zulu at the Zulu royal palace in April last year. On Tuesday McNally said he would drop the charges against the six as three state witnesses […]
TUESDAY, 8.00AM SOUTH AFRICA will destroy 4 500 landmines, a quarter of its stockpile, in front of delegates to a three-day anti-landmine conference today (Tuesday). The conference, organised by the OAU, has drawn 250 delegates from 41 of Africa’s 52 states. But only 11 African states have signed a treaty banning the use of anti-personnel […]
TUESDAY, 10.30AM UNITED States consumer electrical giant General Electric has signed an industrial and commercial co-operation programme with the department of trade and industry involving an undertaking to generate R2-billion in commercial, economic and industrial benefits to the SA economy during the next 10 years. GESA executive Michael Hendry said the money will be spent […]
TUESDAY, 11.30AM FOLLOWING the resignation of five of the seven Independent Broadcasting Authority councillors and the suspension of CEO Harris Gxaweni, accounting firm Deloitte & Touche has been appointed to take over the authority’s finances and administration. And Bronwen Keene-Young, head of the IBA’s monitoring and complaints department, was appointed as the body’s acting CEO […]
TUESDAY, 11.30AM The gold price came under pressure yesterday as investor sentiment turned negative following a German central bank announcement that it is re-evaluating its reserves. With the addition of late profit-taking, the metal closed at just over $340/oz in London yesterday, slashing the Johannesburg Stock Exchange gold index’s hard-won recent gains 3%. The gold […]
TUESDAY, 4.00PM IN his second day of testimony to the inquest into the death of 19 Inkatha marchers in Johannesburg city centre on March 28 1994, former African National Congress deputy security chief Gary Kruser on Tuesday admitted he had lied to police, the attorney-general’s office and the Goldstone Commission during investigations into the shooting […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: SOUTH AFRICA’s and Zimbabwe’s under-20s will meet for a two-match friendly international series in Zimbabwe next week, in preparation for the upcoming World Youth Championships in Malaysia. South Africa’s United Warriors will leave for Malaysia to represent Africa in the tournament from June 12 to July 5, along with Morocco, Zambia and Ghana. […]
TUESDAY, 5.30PM DEPOSED Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, who fled to Togo as Laurent Kabila’s rebels consolidated their control over the country, is reportedly in a very weak state of health and overstaying his welcome in the tiny West African state. Mobutu’s arrival in Togo caught his old friend, fellow francophone dictator Gnassingbe Eyadema, off […]