FRIDAY, 5.00PM ARMED raiders attacked 4 000 displaced Kenyans in a church compound overnight, killing at least three of them and sending the others fleeing. The latest attack brings the confirmed death toll in violence on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast to 43 since August 13. Many of the inland tribespeople who had sought sanctuary in […]
aThe new-look Mail & Guardian, with its striking new arts pullout, Friday, has been hailed by readers, media-watchers, and the advertising industry. The bulk of the redesign was done in-house by literary editor and chief designer Shaun de Waal, in consultation with Riaan de Villiers, a veteran journalist and production expert who works at the […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM COSATU’s week of one-day regional strikes in support of its demand for changes to the draft Basic Conditions of Employment Act moves to Gauteng and Northern Province on Thursday. THURSDAY, 6.00PM Cosatu-organised marchers in Johannesburg and Pretoria went off peacefully on Thursday. In Johannesburg, about 12 000 marchers presented a memorandum to the […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: THE Johannesburg City Council is threatening to cut off the water supply to the Reserve Bank’s Newtown headquarters unless a claimed R46 600 in arrears is not paid by the weekend. Bank manager Mike Smith denied that Bank is in arrears with its water payments. However, a council source confirmed that the Bank’s […]
COPS SEIZE GOLD DUST POLICE seized about six tons of gold dust on Friday in a raid on a hostel in Thabong near Welkom in the Free State. A combined force of police and soldiers, assisted by security officers from local gold mines and traffic police, took part in the raid at about 1.30am. A […]
Craig Bishop Beyond the flea markets and street vendors, the Sandton cities and the hypermarket, a new breed of “shopping centre” is taking shape: multipurpose community centres – “one-stop development shopping malls” – promise to provide information-starved communities with free access to a wide range of services. In the heart of Alexandra, at Alexsan Resource […]
Ireland has been unable to accept a triple Olympic champion who has been dogged by allegations of drug-taking, writes Fintan o’Toole At the Atlanta Olympics last year two young women dominated the headlines in Ireland: one, Sonia O’Sullivan, was a world champion expected to win two gold medals; the other, Michelle Smith, was an obscure […]
Chris Roper: Cultural sushi Cape Town is about to experience an influx of beautiful uitlanders. Two major modelling agencies are opening branches in our fair city. The world’s largest model management corporation, Elite, has launched its SA Model Look competition, and the lucky lass will be chosen on Saturday, August 23 in the Royal Ballroom […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM: ISCOR is to mothball its ageing Pretoria steel mill, the comapny said on Wednesday, a move that will result in the loss of more than 1 000 jobs. Iscor MD Louis van Niekerk said the closure of the group’s oldest steel mill will cost about R1-billion, but he added this will not have […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: AMALGAMATED Banks of South Africa (Absa) on Wednesday announced a R44-million sponsorship deal of Athletics South Africa (ASA) over a period of five years. An excited ASA president Leonard Chuene said: “This is empowerment for us and we don’t have any excuse for not producing medal winners for both Sydney and the 2004 […]