PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela and Nigerian military dictator General Sani Abacha will personally resolve the latest diplomatic row between the two countries, presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana said on Monday.
MONDAY, 2.00PM: SOUTH African Football Association (Safa) CEO Danny Jordaan announced on Sunday night that the planned training camp for Bafana Bafana in Cape Town has been cancelled. National coach Clive Barker was planning to take a squad of 20 home-based players for training at the Sports Science Institute in Cape Town on August 3-8. […]
MONDAY, 3.30PM AN ongoing forensic audit into financial management at the SA Tourism Board has led Pretoria police to open four separate investigations into fraud at Satour. According to Michael Farr, leader of the special management team probing the parastatal, the forensic audit has so far uncovered inefficient management systems, a virtual absence of internal […]
MONDAY, 3.30PM A FORMER police general told the Johannesburg High Court on Monday that senior African National Congress leaders contacted police on the eve of an Inkatha Freedom Party march through central Johannesburg in 1994 to express their concern about the potential for conflict. Testifying before the inquest into the deaths of 19 marchers killed […]
MONDAY, 2.00PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S Gary Player fired a five-metre birdie putt at the second extra hole to win the $58 330 Senior British Open at Royal Purtush on Sunday. He finished ahead of countryman John Bland. Player shot a four-under 68 for his third Senior British Open trophy. “This is one of the two best […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM THE Development Bank of Southern Africa released a R5-billion, 30-year, zero-coupon eurorand bond issue on Friday. The deal, led by underwriters Hambros Bank and Rand Marchant Bank, is the first with an explicit guarantee by the SA government. The offer attracted strong interest, according to a syndicate official at Hambros. Zero-coupon bonds in […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM BARBROOK, a small gold mine outside the town of Barberton in Mpumalanga, closed down suddenly on Thursday, becoming the first casualty of the crisis in the local gold mining industry. Earlier this month, ERPM announced it was winding up its Benoni Gold Mine, and last week Randgold said ERPM itself might be forced […]
I, WILLIAM MASHOTANA (MK name Sizwe Ndela), left South Africa on August 13 1976 for political reasons. I stayed a month in Botswana before I left for Tanzania. I arrived in Tanzania in September and that is where I met Timothy Seremane (MK name Kenneth Mahamba) … He was my deputy commander (commissar) in the […]
Stephen Gray SECRET FIRE: THE 1913-14 SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF PAULINE SMITH (University of Natal Press, R99,95) PAULINE SMITH’S pre-war journal demands a sunny corner to curl up with. Labyrinthine, and actually too disorganised to be read continuously, it wants picking at, probing. This is where those marvellous fine-art stories of hers of a decade […]
Referendums would put an end to the violence and acrimony arising out of border disputes, argues Richard Griggs ALL hell broke loose this year along the boundaries that separate South Africa’s provinces. Deaths, intimidation, house- burnings and other acts of violence related to provincial boundary disputes are rife. The conflict is not just the product […]