WEDNESDAY, 6.00PM RACIAL clashes have blown up at a Pretoria high school, closed since Tuesday after brawling when two black pupils allegedly insulted a white teacher. White pupils at Elandspoort High School in Pretoria West were sent home at 10.00am this morning after renewed fighting, and while principal Hennie Breedt addressed the black pupils. The […]
WEDNESDAY, 8.30AM A DELEGATION of top executives from the $76billion a year Korean multinationl Daewoo arrived in South Africa to look at new investments of up to more than R1,2 billion. But first, the delegation wants a meeting with government to discuss tax breaks and other incentives for investing here. The company has been offered […]
WEDNESDAY, 6.00PM: VIOLENCE erupted again in the Groblersdal area on Tuesday night, as demonstrators set fire to a truck and to the local ANC offices, in continued protests demanding that the area to be included in Mpumalanga Province. Despite the tesnions, Constitutional Affairs Minister Valli Moosa failed to arrive to address a crowd of 15 […]
HUGE FINNISH AID DEAL FINNISH President Maarti Ahtisaari signed a R50 million aid and development co-operation agreement with President Nelson Mandela at Tuynhuys today. Ahtisaari, who lavished praise on Mandela for his role as an African peace broker, is known to South Africans as the UN mediator who overaw the transition to independence of Namibia. […]
TUESDAY, 8.30AM GOLD climbed out of its three week trough in overnight trade, thanks to the weaker dollar, the gains by silver, platiunum and palladium — and the discovery that a rich new Indonesian gold seam was a hoax. The JSE all gold index was up 2,5% or 30 points to 1 268; and gold […]
‘ARE YOU A JEW?’ DISCIPLINARY action may be taken against National Party MP, Willem Odendaal, who offended members of parliament yesterday when he asked ANC MP Andrew Feinstein: “Are you a Jew?” Odendaal asked the question after Feinstein was questioned on whether he is a communist during his speech on the SA Revenue Services budget […]
TUESDAY, 5.00PM: SABOTAGE by officials in the Department of Arts and Culture is hampering the functioning of the Pan South African Language Board, board chair Professor Nxalati Golele told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday. The board was set up a year ago to promote the development of South African languages. But none of the board […]
TUESDAY, 8.30AM SA EXPRESS, jointly owned by SAA and Thebe Investments, has bought six new 50-seater jets from the Canadian company Bombardier, in an R600 milion deal that includes selling six old turboprop planes back to the Canadians. The company, which has annual turnover of R240 million and is said to operate at a profit, […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: THE Federation of Unions of SA (Fedusa) voiced its support yesterday of the move by the Airline Pilots Association of SA and South African Airways to increase air safety over African skies. SAA said over the weekend several African countries will be forced to upgrade their air safety standards or forfeit the overflight […]
TUESDAY, 3.00PM MOST South Africans believe that women have no role in combat and should be accompanied by men in dangerous areas, a poll of 2 200 people by the Human Sciences Research Council and the Institute for Security Studies has revealed. Almost two thirds of respondents said women should not be allowed to join […]