THURSDAY, 4.30PM ABOUT 300 Johannesburg street vendors were on Thursday morning preparing to march to John Vorster Square police station to demand the release of at least six of their colleagues arrested on Wednesday during a rampage of smashing and looting through Johannesburg. Wednesday’s action followed a meeting at which hawkers decided to begin evicting […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: SOUTH AFRICAN Rugby Football Union president Louis Luyt has called all 14 provincial rugby coaches to attend a meeting at Ellis Park on Thursday, following recent poor perfomance by the Springboks. The meeting will provide national coach Carel du Plessis and other coaches a chance to thrash out short and long-term plans to […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM INTERNATIONAL callback operators have been given two weeks to shut their local operations by the SA Telecommunications Regulatory Authority. Satra chairman Nape Maepa said the callback operators are contravening the Telecommunications Act, which says that only licensed entities may provide telecoms services. Telkom is the only licensed telecoms service provider in SA, and […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM LOCAL mining house Johannesburg Consolidated Investments is to invest $660-million in an iron project in the Mozambican port of Beira, JCI executive chairman Mzi Khumalo said on Tuesday. Khumalo said the project will be one of the most competitive in the world, and will be central to economic development in Mozambique. The facility […]
WEDNESDAY, 5.30PM GAUTENG local government MEC Sicelo Shiceka on Wednesday said local authorities in the province have recovered more than R500-million in rates and service payments since the government began the cutting electricity supplies of defaulters on August 5. He said the amount collected constitutes 13% of the R3,8-billion owed to Gauteng local authorities by […]
WEDNESDAY, 2.30PM A POLICEMAN on Tuesday told the Shell House inquest how he fired 10 shots from his R5 automatic rifle to prevent a man escaping after he shot and killed policeman during a march by 20 000 Inkatha Freedom Party supporters through central Johannesburg on March 28 1994. The inquest is examining the cause […]
TUESDAY, 3.00PM The producer price index fell to an annualised 7,5% in June, 0,9 of a percentage point down on May’s 8,4%, largely as a result of a decrease in the average price of crude oil imports. Month-on-month, the index fell 0,2% in June, compared to a 0,9% increase in May. Locally produced commodities showed […]
WEDNESDAY, 3.30PM CONVICTED Hani murderer and former Conservative Party politician Clive Derby-Lewis continued his testimony before the truth commission’s amnesty committee on Wednesday by describing his extensive political links with foreign right-wing organisations. Derby-Lewis and Polish immigrant Janusz Walus were convicted of the April 10 1993 murder of SA Communist Party and African National Congress […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S Theo Verster and Renate du Plessis broke South African and African records on the third day of the Pan Pacific swimming championships in Fukouka, Japan on Tuesday. Verster finished eighth in the men’s 100m butterfly final with a time of 54,58sec, just above his own national and African record of 52,22sec. […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: BAFANA BAFANA won their warm-up friendly match against Free State XI 1-0 in Bloemfontein on Tuesday night. Midfielder Doctor Khumalo scored from a penalty spot after being brought down by defender Charles Montloung in the 53rd minute. Bafana Bafana attacked early in the first half and Eric Tinkler was unlucky when his shot […]