MONDAY, 11.20AM TWO more Richmond men were killed on Sunday night, both of them supporters of the rival United Democratic Movement aligned to local warlord Sifiso Nkabinde. The men were murdered in the Magoda area, an Nkabinde stronghold, in what appears to have been a revenge attack following the previous night’s murder of six ANC […]
MONDAY, 2.40PM: A TWENTY YEAR old playing in his first test, scored a superb 115 off 270 balls to give Pakistan 216 for six on the first day of South Africa’s first full-length test against Pakistan. Pakistan can thank young Ali Naqvi for saving the team from the South African seam bowlers, with the rest […]
MONDAY, 9.50AM: A TEN-man Kaizer Chiefs won their Castle Premier Soccer League match against a youthful Moroka Swallows 1-0 at Ellis Park Stadium on Sunday. Chiefs played for 71 minutes without lethal striker Thembinkosi Biyela after he was given his marching orders by referee Ian Mcleod, for stamping on the “Birds” defender Cleophas Dlodlo. Chiefs’ […]
MONDAY, 10.35AM: SOUTH AFRICA’S emerging hero Hendrik Ramaala broke the long standing South African half marathon record of 60 minutes 11 seconds at the 21km World Championships in Slovakia on Saturday. Ramaala finished fourth in 60 minutes 07sec to break the 10-year old record that was set by Zithulele Sinqe and Mathews Timane in East […]
MONDAY, 1.30PM VEHICLE sales for September were down 0.5 percent from September 1996, but are up by about a thousand sales on August. New car sales were up 3% on last September, but analysts doubt that the strong sales will last into the last quarter of the year as interest rates begin to bite. Exports […]
MONDAY, 2.40PM WORLD famous Kenyan conservationist and palaeontologist Richard Leakey was today refused permission to register a political party called Safina, Swahili for ‘Noah’s Ark”, because it was likely to promote actions “prejudicial to peace”. The decision marks a breach of an agreement by the Kenyan government, which recently said it would register all political […]
MONDAY, 9.30AM The conservative Afrikaans Sunday newspaper Rapport raised a political storm yesterday with a front-page report claiming that ANC martyr Chris Hani spent his last night in a hotel with a Transkei air hostess, then returned home without his bodyguards, where he was shot dead. The air hostess, Cookie Ndungane, admits to staying at […]
FRIDAY, 8.30AM WINNIE Madikizela-Mandela held a press conference Thursday to accuse the media of a “persistent campaign of disinformation” linking her to the murders of child activist Stompie Seipei and her doctor, Abu Baker Asvat. Madikizela-Mandela said she had conducted her own investigation, and concluded that her former close friend Xoliswa Falati, who shared her […]
FRIDAY, 11.30AM FORMER executives of Unifruco have been among the first to cash in on deregulation in fresh produce exports by entering into an export joint venture between established fresh produce exporter Fruveg and the United Kingdom’s Gerber Foods Group. Unifruco has for decades been the statorily declared sole export channel for SA fresh produce, […]
TFRIDAY, 6.30PM The long-awaited commission of inquiry into the management of South African rugby will start on November 18. The first in a series of daily public hearings will be held in Sandton, commission chairman acting Judge Jules Browde (SC) announced on Friday. Hundreds of witnesses, including members of the SA Rugby Football Union executive, […]