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 […]
MONDAY, 8.00AM: ZAIRE’S rebels resumed their march on Kinshasa at the weekend, despite promising President Nelson Mandela that they would pause to allow negotiations to continue. The rebels suspect that Mobutu is using the lull in fighting to reinforce hs defences. They are also enraged by an agreement between Mobutu and Central African presidents — […]
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 […]
FRIDAY, 10.30AM RANDGOLD commercial director Brett Kebble is behind an attempt to set up SA’s first resource bank, a R1-billion venture intended to fund mining projects. Kebble is at present touting the plan to leading financiers. It is widely believed that the proposed mining bank is in anticipation of new black empowerment initiatives such as […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
ANC Jim Day AN African National Congress decision to back away from efforts to put Bushbuckridge in the Northern Province under the control of neighbouring Mpumalanga sparked the rioting that is rocking the area. The ANC decision, according to local residents, was taken at a meeting in the middle of last month attended by representatives […]