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 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 8.30PM. JUSTICE Minister Dullah Omar on Wednesday announced a project which will prevent dangerous criminals being released on bail. According to Omar the project entails a computer link between courts and the police’s Criminal Record Centre in Pretoria, effectively giving courts access to all crime suspects’ previous conviction records. Omar’s […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.00PM. GENERAL Siphiwe Nyanda, the former MK Transvaal commander and current chief of the SA National Defence Force, was the mastermind behind the 1987 Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court bombing, former MK member Solly Shoke told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee on Wednesday. Four policemen died and 14 other people […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Wednesday 9.00PM. A SUSPECT wanted in connection with a body found in a shallow grave near Richmond has died in while being pursued by police in a high-speed car chase. Police wished to question farmer Neville Garrod, 59, and his son Ian Wayne Garrod, after the body of their domestic worker, […]
SARAH BULLEN in Johannesburg | Tuesday 12.30pm. SOUTH Africa’s gold and foreign exchange reserves fell 2,4%, R800-million,to R32,60-billion in July from R33,40-billion in June, the Reserve Bank said on Tuesday. The Bank released preliminary reserves figures in advance of more detailed data on its holdings of gold and foreign currencies, scheduled for August 11. ING […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 10.00AM. FORMER Orlando Pirates midfield star Clifford “Tough” Moleka was killed in a car accident near Johannesburg International Airport on Monday morning. Moleka, who was on loan to Nyanga Seven Stars, was on his way to the airport to return to Cape Town when he swerved to avoid a truck […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kigali | Tuesday 10.00PM. THE Democratic Republic of Congo government in Kinshasa has accused Rwanda of “invading” DRC, and has subsequently said on national television that it is preparing a “vigorous riposte” against Rwanda for attacking its territory. A United Nations source in Kinshasa has also said that Rwandan forces were seen crossing […]
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 | Tuesday 9.00PM. AN Umkhonto we Sizwe special operations unit commander on Tuesday described to the amnesty committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission how he watched as two men were killed by a bomb he set outside Ellis Park rugby stadium in 1988. Lester Dumakude (45), now a lieutenant-colonel in the […]