OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 8.30pm THE July 1988 car bomb explosion at Ellis Park sports stadium, in which two people died and 35 were injured, was not intended to kill anybody, but to send a message to whites that they, too, were vulnerable, a former Umkhonto weSizwe cadre applying for amnesty told the Truth […]
ROB DAVIES, Johannesburg | Sunday 1.00PM. SPRINGBOK wonderboy flyhalf Gaffie du Toit again delivered the goods to steer Griqualand West to a 23-17 victory over Natal at King’s Park in Durban on Saturday. Du Toit, who came on as a substitute in the second half, drilled two drop-goals through the posts in the 64th and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 6.00PM. THE Truth and Reconciliation amnesty committee has granted amnesty to Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) member Nicolaas Willem de Jongh for the bombing of two houses shortly before the 1994 elections. De Jongh, the AWB commander for the Queenstown, Eastern Cape, area and two other AWB members bombed the […]
Sizwe samaYende in Nelspruit | Monday 3.30pm SOUTH Africa’s second largest primary tobacco company, with an initial market capitalisation of R100-million and representing 35% of total production in the country, opened for business on Monday. Lowveld Golden Leaf was formally incorporated on July 28 but opened its offices in the Mpumalanga capital of Nelspruit on […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00pm. SANLAM’S chief economist Jac Laubscher said on Monday he concurs with Reserve Bank governor Chris Stals’s assessment that the rand appears to be levelling off, and he would not be surprised to see it dip below the R6 to the dollar mark. Speaking before the National Council of Provinces’ […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cheltenham | Sunday 1.00PM. SOUTH Africa’s final warm-up fixture against Essex failed to get off the ground on Sunday, when a combination of heavy overnight rain and a malfunction in the drainage system resulted in a waterlogged outfield. Play is expected to resume at 3pm. The local fire brigade was called in to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 10.30PM. THE South African Footplate Staff Association has agreed to suspend its strike of train drivers, ticket collectors and guards which left millions of commuters stranded around the country on Friday, and created chaos on the roads. The breakthrough was a result of intervention by the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation […]
Death was the uninvited guest at a wedding in Richmond this week, turning joy into grief. Sechaba ka’Nkosi reports Doyi Shezi came home to Esimozomeni in Richmond last week to prepare for his second-youngest daughter’s wedding. On Saturday, he performed all the traditional marriage rituals at his homestead and handed his daughter Nonhlanhla to her […]
Anne Holmes went on an unusual trip to get books to deprived rural schools in KwaZulu- Natal Red mud churned madly on a remote hillside in KwaZulu-Natal. Men shouted instructions at each other, and passing schoolgirls shrieked and giggled at the unusual spectacle. It was certainly not your typical rural scenario. A dilapidated minibus bogged […]
Andy Capostagno : Rugby There is a lot to be said for relaxation. In the next millennium we are told that working hours will shrink to about 30 a week so we’ll all have to get used to more time at home, more time on the golf course, more time. But rugby events on opposite […]