TUESDAY, 3.30PM: A FORMER Bophuthatswana policeman today confessed to shooting dead three Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging members during violence preceeding the downfall of former Bop president Lucas Mangope on March 11 1994. In a written submission to the Tebbutt commission investigating the violence, Ontlametse Bernstein Menyatsoe, now a constable in the SA Police Service, admitted firing the […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: SOUTH African tennis star Wayne Ferreira, plagued by a string of first-round knock-outs in international tournaments in Estoril, Madrid, Monte Carlo and Hamburg, is looking for a new racket to change his luck before the French Open in three weeks. His search has been going on for some time now, and suppliers Dunlop […]
TUESDAY, 3.30PM: TRUTH commissioner Richard Lyster said today that there is no evidence that the murder and secret burials of anti-apartheid activists in KwaZulu-Natal was the work of hit squads, but that the practice was “commonplace” among security police. “The more we investigate this sort of thing the more we find out that this was […]
TUESDAY, 9.00AM The price of housing has fallen for the eighth successive quarter, says the latest Absa housing review. The price of housing has fallen by six percent in real terms since January 1, allowing for inflation. The weak housing market has also slowed down a rise in building costs, which grew by 4,3%, compared […]
TUESDAY, 3.30PM: TRANSKEI attorney-general Christo Nel today told the National Assembly’s justice committee that he dropped his bribery prosecution of casino king Sol Kerzner and former Cape Town mayor David Bloomberg because one of his key witnesses had died and another, former Transkei prime minister George Matanzima, was “belligerent, unreliable and obstreperous”. Nel said Matanzima […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM: SOUTH African Morgan Ndumo, holder of the WBC B-grade “International”, went down in four rounds to Mexican challenger Paul Villahabos in a non-title bout at Wembley arena in Johannesburg yesterday. The agressive Mexican made up for his lack of height with a relentless attack, making his mark with a flurry of blows to […]
NEW CRIME INTELLIGENCE HEAD NATIONAL Police Commissioner George Fivaz has announced the appointment of assistant commissioner Tim Williams as chief of police crime intelligence, following the death of previous incumbent Leonard Radu earlier this year. LESOTHO COP IN COURT SECOND Lieutenant Phakiso Modise, one of two Lesotho policemen recently refused asylum in South Africa, appeared […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM: LOG leaders Manning Rangers reinforced their position at the top of the League yesterday with a 4-0 walkover of bottom-of-the-table Witbank Aces on Aces’ home turf at KwaGuqa, ending all hopes that Aces might avoid relegation. Aces started the game fast and dominated play, but several chances were blown by their lack of […]
MONDAY, 3.30PM: SAFETY and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi today summoned the national and provincial police commissioners and safety and security MECs to an urgent meeting in Pretoria on Wednesday to discuss the deteriorating crime situation in the country. News of the meeting emerged at a meeting today of the gauteng legislature’s standing committee on safety […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM: ORLANDO Pirates showed their class yesterday when they fought from behind to win 2-1 against Zimbabwean champion side Caps United in the second round of the African Champions’ League at the National Sports Stadium in Harare. Underdogs United came out in fighting form and grabbed immediate control with a 10th minute goal by […]