JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Monday, 6.30PM. THE Heath special investigative unit spent four hours raiding the Mpumalanga Parks Board’s head office in Nelspruit on Monday morning after serving search and seizure papers on MPB chief executive Alan Gray. Unit investigators declined to comment on Monday, insisting that their investigation into the drafting of three promissory […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Border | Sunday 8.30PM. BORDER came just one point away from beating their illustrious neighbours Western Province on Sunday, after a brilliant comeback from 12-0 down at halftime. But in the end, a bounce off the left-hand upright is what denied them victory, letting Western Province go home with a 15.-14 win. After […]
CHRISTIAN FIGENSCHOU, Johannesburg and LEONARD NDZHUKULA, Vaalwater | Monday 3.30pm. FOLLOWING the murders on Saturday of two elderly Cape farmers, a Northern Province farmer’s wife was attacked by four men who stabbed her 16 times at her Vaalwater farmhouse on Sunday evening. Dina Muller (60) told police that four men, including a soft-spoken farm labourer […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Phuthaditjhaba | Sunday 8.30PM. QWA QWA gave mighty Amakhosi a run in a Rothmans Cup first-leg match in Phuthaditjhaba on Sunday — but the Chiefs were rescued in the end by their two new signings, who each scored a goal. Pollen Ndlanya and Fanie Madida made their return to the Kaizer Chiefs fold […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 11.00am. THE government is proposing amendments to the Competition Bill that would see parastatals excluded from the ambit of the anti-monopoly law, according to government negotiators. According to senior government negotiator David Lewis, the strengthened bill, currently being debated by Parliament, will not apply to parastatals and companies operating with […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Sunday 8.00PM. FAMILIES of Zimbabwean soldiers killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been prevented from protesting outside President Robert Mugabe’s offices in Harare. Family members said at the weekend that Central Intelligence Organisation agents had threatened them. “We were harassed by youths at night who told us that all […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 9.15am. SOUTH African Airways on Friday morning reached an agreement with its unions, averting a strike planned for Friday afternoon. “The agreement, which has the unanimous endorsement of the negotiating teams of all unions, will be submitted immediately for discussion by the represented employees,” the South African Railway and Harbour […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Sunday 9.00PM. RWANDA will send troops into the Democratic Republic of Congo if the latest peace efforts under the leadership of South African President Nelson Mandela fail, Rwanda has warned. Rwandan Foreign Minister Anastase Gasana, in Durban to attend the Non-Aligned Movement summit, told reporters on Saturday that the genocide of […]
PAUL EJIME, Durban | Sunday 7.00PM. POLITICAL and security issues, including the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo and global disarmament, especially the situation in Asia, have so far dominated the preparatory meeting of the 12th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Durban. The ambassadors’ and senior officials’ meeting, which was opened early on […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Friday 10.30PM. FEDSURE Medway turned on the turbo when it counted most to win the 1998 Lipton Challenge Cup for the first time on Friday. Co-skippered by Pete Shaw and Steve du Toit, and crewed by Ken Venn, Bruce Keytel and Mike Clarke, the Gordon’s Bay Yacht Club team sailed […]