OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.00AM. THE boys from Highland High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, provided one of the biggest surprises in the finals of the World Schools Rugby championships played in Harare on Tuesday. The American boys, playing for third and fourth spot against Tonga’s Tupou College, beat the boys from the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Windhoek | Thursday 9.00pm. ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba has accused Unita rebels in Angola of defying the 1994 peace accords signed in Lusaka in an attempt to end 16 years of civil war. Chiluba appealed to Unita on Wednesday night to support current United Nations mediation to restore peace in the Southern African […]
CHRISTIAN FIGENSCHOU, Johannesburg | Thursday 4.00pm. IT emerged in the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday that more than 1000 policemen have been murdered in South Africa since 1994. Meanwhile, the South African Agricultural Union published statistics that show there were more than 2000 attacks on farmers, in which more than 500 farmers were murdered over […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg| Wednesday 4.30pm. THE South African Broadcasting Corporation is expected next week to announce a surplus of over R100-million in its end-of-year financial results, outgoing chief executive Zwelakhe Sisulu said at a function in Johannesburg on Wednesday. “We no longer have an identification crisis … The SABC is poised to enter the next […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Thursday 10.00pm. AFRICAN National Congress protesters in KwaZulu Natal are planning to march on the offices of KZN attorney-general Tim McNally and provincial police commissioner Chris Serfontein to demand their resignations. The marches will be part of a programme of mass action by the ANC in KZN to protest against the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 9.40PM. SOUTH Africa’s seamers did the trick on the first day of the series-deciding fifth cricket Test at Headingley, dismissing the home side for 230 runs. English opener Mark Butcher was, in fact, the only English bat who really worried the South Africans, as he played a stirling career-best innings […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Leeds | Wednesday 11.30AM. THE South African cricket squad on Tuesday thwarted attempts by the English media to turn the series-deciding fifth Test at Headingley into a Donald-bashing party. The South African team refused to talk to the press after net practice on Tuesday, following the comments made by Allan Donald on the […]
SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Tuesday, 3.00pm. THE total numbers of liquidations in the second quarter of 1998 rose a staggering 59,3% to 1034, from 649 liquidations in the previous quarters, the latest figures from the Central Statistical Services released on Tuesday indicate. The increase reflects a 21,6% increase compared with liquidations in the second quarter […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg| Wednesday 4.00pm. THE Katz Commission of Inquiry into tax structures on Wednesday proposed that a provincial surcharge on the national fuel levy be added to boost the revenue of provinces. In a report released on Wednesday, the commission said such a levy could be raised with relative ease at a lower-tier level, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9pm. FILLING stations around South Africa are running dry with no end in sight to the strike by 47000 members of the Chemical Workers’ Industrial Union. No negotiations took place on Wednesday, and no meetings are planned, CWIU president Welile Nolingo said, although he expects “some approaches or initiatives from […]