TUESDAY, 6.00PM SHARES on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange moved slightly higher in thin trade on Tuesday as Wall Street bounced back from Friday’s precipitous fall, with the only downside to the day the rand’s further losses against the dollar. At the close the all gold index had edged up 0,9 points to 1 017,6 on […]
WEDNESDAY, 5.00PM THE Rwandan genocide suspect employed by the Namibian Government as a doctor shows little understanding of medical practices. Dr Andre Rwamakuba, wanted in Rwanda for his involvement in the 1994 murder of hospital patients, has been sent for retraining at Katatura Hospital after a deluge of complaints from Gobabis, where he was first […]
WEDNESDAY, 4.00PM The violence around Kenya’s Indian Ocean port of Mombasa continued overnight on Tuesday when marauders burnt down a chief’s camp at Waa township and four houses at Ukunda near the Diani holiday resort south of Mombasa. Among the houses burnt was that of Diani’s Amiri Banda, the imam of the Masjid Jihad mosque, […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM SOUTH African gold production declined again in July, falling 4,5% to 39,81 tons from June’s 41,67 tons, according to latest figures from the Chamber of Mines. The fall continues a trend thast has seen gold production progressively decreasing over the past few years to the level where the United States is in a […]
TUESDAY, 3.30PM FORMER Civil Co-Operation Bureau managing director Joe Verster, who testified before the Harms Commission in disguise, was finally photographed by journalists on Tuesday during a break in questioning by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s investigative unit. The grey-haired, bespectacled Verster, who was subpoenaed to testify behind closed doors at the TRC’s Cape Town […]
TUESDAY, 3.30PM ONE of the policeman being sought for questioning by investigators probing the July slaying of five African National Congress members in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands town of Richmond was shot and wounded in the town on Monday. Richmond police confirmed an attempted murder docket had been opened following the shooting of Siphiwe Dlamini. Dlamini […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) resumes its programme with six matches around the country on Tuesday night. AmaZulu will host Kaizer Chiefs at Kings Spark Stadium in Durban at 8pm. In their last matches, AmaZulu and Chiefs lost 2-1 to Real Rovers and 3-1 to Cape Town Spurs respectively. If Chiefs’ recent performances […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: SOME R800-million of wine co-operative KWVs net asset value of R2-billion belongs to the state, a Cape court heard yesterday. The Minister of Land Affairs is opposing KWV’s attempts to convert from a co-operative to a public company, arguing that the co-operative based its business success on years of state assistance. The court […]
TUESDAY, 10.05AM: SPRINGBOK coach Carel du Plessis suprised everyone on Monday when he named Justin Swart as the possible replacement for the injured Russell Bennett. Bennett is one of the four players to have to undergo a fitness test prior to selection. While Andre Joubert is everyone’s choice to replace Bennett, Du Plessis said both […]
TUESDAY, 5.00PM THE Congress of SA Trade Unions on Tuesday continued its series of one-day regional strikes in support of its demands for changes to the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill with a stayaway in KwaZulu-Natal. Businesses in the province reported an average 60% stayaway. The main action of the day was a march by […]