OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.45PM. CABINET on Wednesday approved a judicial commission of inquiry that will investigate the possibility of launching a viable system of compensation for victims of road crashes. Announcing the results of a fortnightly Cabinet meeting, Transport Minister Mac Maharaj said a new system will be the most efficient way of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 3.00PM. THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard on Wednesday how police faked a bomb at a showing of the film Cry Freedom. One of the generals who arranged the elaborate charade, Johan le Roux, told the hearing that when the Publications Appeal Board in 1988 allowed the Weekly Mail Film […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 9.30PM. IMPOTENCE drug Viagra will soon be available on prescription in South Africa, the Medicines Control Council announced on Wednesday. The drug, chemically called sildenafil citrate, treats erectile dysfunction. The MCC says the risk of death for those using the drug is unknown. “In some cases the reported clinical […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 9.30AM. OUSTED South African Rugby Football Union president Louis Luyt on Tuesday proclaimed himself as owner of the Springbok emblem, adding that he holds no allegiance to the National Sports Congress. In a characteristically blunt and outspoken address to an extraordinary general meeting of the Sarfu executive, Luyt warned […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.30PM. LOCAL shares dropped some of their earlier gains in afternoon trade as investors started to buy futures and sell equities, thereby pressurising the stock market again. According to dealers the JSE closed nervously as traders waited to see whether the US markets will weaken overnight. The all share index […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.30PM. AT least 13000 Chemical Workers and Industrial Union members on Wednesday marched though the streets of major cities to present employers with a memorandum detailing their demands for a 10,5% across-the-board wage increase. In Johannesburg an estimated 3000 members marched from Library Gardens in the city centre to Total […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Wednesday 6.00PM. THE boss of Kenya’s anti-corruption unit has been suspended by President Daniel arap Moi. Kenya Anti-Corruption Authority director John Harun Mwau was suspended after he tried to pursue senior treasury and tax department officials for alleged corruption. Moi’s office has established a tribunal to investigate “the proper performance” of […]
Sarah Bullen in Pretoria | Wednesday 6.30PM. FORMER Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock on Wednesday told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee that he was ordered to “just shoot” any regular police who might stumble upon the clandestine operation to bomb Khotso house in 1988. De Kock testified that during a briefing before the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Wednesday, 7.00PM ANGOLAN Unita rebels took the strategic town of Mussende in the north of the country overnight, according to the Kwanza-Sul provincial government. Mussende, a farming town located at an important crossroads linking Malanje, Kwanza-Norte and Kwanza-Sul provinces, was a stronghold of the rebels backing Jonas Savimbi during the civil […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.00AM. FORMER International Boxing Federation bantamweight champion Mbulelo Botile was too hot to handle at the Carousel on Tuesday night, forcing Filipino Dino Olivetti to throw in the towel at the beginning of the sixth round. The technical knock-out is another step towards champion status as a fully fledged featherweight […]