THURSDAY, 11.00AM INTERNATIONAL diamond cartel De Beers on Wednesday failed to secure the purchase of diamonds from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Miba mine, after being outbid at an auction by Belgian company Susskind. De Beers has been the sole purchaser of Miba’s diamonds for more than a decade. According to Maurice Nabahola, adviser to […]
THURSDAY, 1.00PM: ORLANDO Pirates have released three players — Naughty Mokeona, Sidwell Maboe and Vincent Sokhela — to AmaZulu in exchange with midfielder Simon Magagula. AmaZulu manager Lawrence Ngubane confirmed the move: ”We need players more than money, that is why we decided to swap Magagula instead of selling him.” Magagula, who is at present […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM THE African National Congress has accused the police of participation in the massacre of five party members — three of them newly elected town councillors — in Richmond in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands. The five, councillors Bhekumusa Mchunu and his cousin Mbongiseni Mchunu, both 25, and Boy Dhlamini, Mduduzi Mtungwa and Mshiyeni Nyide were […]
WEDNESDAY, 5.30PM SOUTH Africa is to resume arms sales to Rwanda, National Conventional Arms Control Committee chairman Kader Asmal said on Wednesday. Asmal said the decision was prompted by changed circumstances in Rwanda and the need for that country to restore peace and order. Asmal also confirmed that the committee in August last year approved […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM TWO newly elected African National Congress councillors in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands town of Richmond were shot dead on Tuesday night together with three other party members in the nearby Simozomeni township. Richmond mayor Andrew Ravagaloo said all five were dragged from a house in the township and shot execution style. He said it […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM THE Dow Jones industrial index leapt back over the 8 000-point mark on Tuesday following US Federal Reserve chairman Allan Greenspan’s mid-year economic report to Congress, in which he said that inflationary pressures had remained tame. Greeenspan’s view on inflation is widely shared, but markets were nonetheless jittery prior to his address to […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: GAUTENG LIONS forward Bruce Thorne will replace flank Andre Vos in the team to play against Eastern Province in a Currie Cup fixture in Port Elizabeth on Saturday. Thorne missed last Sunday’s match against Mpumalanga because of his religious beliefs. Vos moves to No 8 to replace Warren Brosnihan, who is in the […]
WEDNESDAY, 3.00PM NAMIBIAN authorities on Wednesday denied claims made a fornight ago that security forces have killed 1 768 people, mostly Angolan refugees, in the north-east of the country, but confirmed that seven deaths are being investigated. The Windhoek-based National Society of Human Rights in June 1994 said that 376 people had either been shot […]
WEDNESDAY, 8.30AM A FORMER senior MK commander told the Truth Comission yesterday that he spent four-and-a- half years in detention in ANC camps, where he was tortured with electric probes, beaten and humiliated. Dilizu Mthembu said he fell from grace with the ANC after his father, an MK founder, was executed for “selling the movement […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM TELECOMS parastatal Telkom’s plan to provide millions of new telephone lines before the end of the millennium was set in motion on Tuesday with the award of a R2-billion contract to Alcatel Altech Telecoms and Lucent Technologies for radio systems involved in the provision of 400 000 new lines over the next two […]