MONDAY, 1.00PM: NORTHERN TRANSVAAL beat Border 39-20 in their Bankfin Currie Cup match at Basil Kenyon Stadium in East London on Sunday. Border trailed 3-12 at one time but came back to take a 17-12 lead. Border’s right wing David Maidza beat two defenders to score a try and he set up their second try, […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM: THE Presidential Review Commission overseeing government restructuring and service deliery reprimanded the finance department for giving a ”shoddy and flimsy” presentation at a public hearing on Saturday. Commission chairman Vincent Maphai said that he hoped other departments still to make their presentations to the commission will be better prepared than the finance department, […]
HUNDREDS AT STAGGIE MEMORIAL HUNDREDS of people attended a memorial service for gangster Rashaad Staggie, lynched a year ago by People Against Gangsterism and Drugs vigilantes, at the Manenberg sports ground on the Cape Flats on Monday. The service was organised by the Community Outreach Forum, a gangsters’ organisation. Police reported no incidents. Later a […]
Ros Coward Those who thought “violence against women” was an archaic feminist concern had better think again. In the 1990s, concern about this violence has undergone a quantum leap. It is no longer a local issue of refuges: violence against women has become a global issue. In July, for the first time, the United Nations […]
FRIDAY, 1.00PM: KENYAN athletes are in great form in Athens and are expected to dominate in the long distance events in the World Athletics Championships which starts on Friday. Kenya is hoping that their top athletes will bring back medals – fastest 5 000m runner this season Daniel Komen, three-time world 3 000m steeplechase chapmion […]
FRIDAY, 1.00PM: NEWCOMERS to the Premier Soccer League (PSL) – Lightbody Santos and African Wanderers host league giants – Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs respectively, in the opening matches of the 1997/98 soccer season. Santos, who eliminated Real Rovers in the preliminary rounds of the Rothmans Cup last weekend, entertain Pirates at Athlone Stadium in […]
FRIDAY, 12.00NOON GOVERNMENT’S hopes of creating 252 000 new jobs this year appear set to be dashed as latest employment statistics released by the Central Statistical Service show that SA’s formal, non-agricultural economy shed another 42 000 jobs in the first quarter of this year. Government’s growth, employment and redistribution strategy (Gear) had projected the […]
Peta Thornycroft Johan “Sakkie” van Zyl, a manager working for a subsidiary of the arms parastatal, Denel, has been named as the leader of the unit that killed Eastern Cape activist Matthew Goniwe. In his amnesty submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, former hit-squad leader and convicted murderer Eugene de Kock, says Van Zyl […]
South Africas deteriorating position on an international corruption index reflects worsening perceptions of the country, reports Ferial Haffajee South Africa has dropped 10 places from last year in an international survey of corruption. The country was placed 33rd in a poll of 52 countries by Transparency International (TI), a corruption-tracking non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in […]
Francis Murape ZIMBABWEAN nationalist leader and co-vice-president Joshua Nkomo rarely appears in public these days because of poor health and old age – a development that is increasing the strain on President Robert Mugabe’s fractious administration. Mugabe is worried not so much because he loves the man, but because Nkomo’s departure could undermine the political […]