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/ 9 December 1997
TUESDAY, 11.00PM: SHARES on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange failed to find direction in thin trade on Tuesday, ending the day little changed. At the close the all gold index had dropped 5,8 points to 676,5, and the industrial index had slipped 2,7 points to 7 435,6. However, the all share index ended 2,8 points better […]
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/ 9 December 1997
TUESDAY, 11.30PM: IN a statement issued on Tues evening, Johanesburg Consolidated Investments chairman Mzi Khumalo confirmed that JCI has received an approach from Lonrho in regard to a merger, and that discussions on the issue are under way in earnest. The statement was issued after a meeting of the JCI board, in the wake of […]
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/ 9 December 1997
AN expert at a workshop on drought management argued that the El Niño phenomenon’s impact on Southern Africa has been exaggerated and is already weakening, Business Day reported this morning. Neville Cross of Omnia Holdings says that the El Niño phenomenon disappeared entirely for about eight days in November, then returned in a much weaker […]
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/ 9 December 1997
LARGE PRINT ZULU BIBLE THE Bible Society of South Africa has launched the first large-print Bible to be published in Zulu, the society said in Cape Town on Tuesday. The Bibles were specially produced for Zulu-language speakers with weak eyesight. The society said there is a desperate shortage of large-print literature in the indigenous languages […]
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/ 9 December 1997
TUESDAY, 3.00PM: A SENIOR official of vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad), Adeeda Roberts, was arrested at dawn on Tuesday after a surprise police raid found a top-secret intelligence document in her home. The document was found by police during a surprise search for weapons and ammunition by police in the early hours […]
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/ 8 December 1997
MONDAY, 4.00PM: FORMER security policeman Gideon Nieuwoudt has won the right to a new panel to hear his application for amnesty for the 1977 death in detention of Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko. Nieuwoudt — already convicted of four murders — has been named repeatedly in Eastern Cape torture cases. He argued on Monday that […]
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/ 8 December 1997
MONDAY, 9.00AM: THE US-based Human Rights Watch claims in a report issued on Monday that South African arms are being smuggled to rebels in Burundi. The report names companies with apartheid-era links, and says Spoornet trains are used for the smuggling. The SA government denies knowledge of the smuggling, but says it will investigate. Human […]
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/ 8 December 1997
MONDAY, 1.00PM: ZIMBABWEAN president Robert Mugabe announced on Saturday he will not allow the courts to judge his decision to reclaim white-owned farms. Speaking at a political rally for his ruling party Zanu (PF), Mugabe announced that the move to confiscate nearly 1 500 farms is a “political issue” and not a matter for the […]
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/ 8 December 1997
MONDAY, 1.00PM: The newly formed Black Managers Forum (BMF) of the South African Police Service has come in for severe criticism from national police commissioner George Fivaz, who labelled it “reverse racism”. The forum was set up by black officers in the police as a lobbying centre against white racism. Fivaz said he had already […]
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/ 8 December 1997
MONDAY,5.30PM: THE African National Congress’ Women’s League has chosen to duck the contentious publicity around its support for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s bid for the party’s deputy president post — by refusing to say anything about it. The league announced on Monday that it will wait until after the ANC’s annual conference to issue a media statement […]