MONDAY, 11.30AM: The draw for the Iwisa Charity Soccer Spectacular will be made by Premier Soccer League officials at the Sunnyside Park hotel on Tuesday. Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates, Moroka Swallows and Mamelodi Sundowns have qualified for the draw. The four teams qualified by registering the most votes in a telephonic and postal vote system […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM THE Office for Serious Economic Offences is investigating 36 criminal cases involving R12-billion, a figure described by Oseo director Jan Swamepoel as “a drop in the ocean” compared with the total number of commercial crime cases reported to the police. Swanepoel added that Oseo has been seriously undermined by shortage of resources, and […]
MONDAY, 8.00AM A FORMER Western Cape security policeman seeking amnesty for torturing Umkhonto we Sizwe cadres on Monday demonstrated the “wet bag” technique to a truth commission hearing. Many of Jeff Benzien’s former victims looked on as he demonstrated the technique at African National Congress MP Tony Yengeni’s request. Benzien had in the past used […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM BLACK-controlled information technology group Sourcecom Technology Solutions has won a fiercely fought contest for a R65-million Telkom contract to supply Compaq hardware to the telecoms parastatal over the next year. STS won the contract against 35 other tenders. The 100% black-owned company was formed in 1996 through the merger of Impact Integration Systems […]
DEMOCRACY SUMMIT AFRICA’S first high-level summit on good governance ended on Saturday in Abbis Ababa, with a pledge by participants to “to pursue collaborative programmes” for the transparent management of public affairs. The forum, sponsored by the UN and the OAU, discused issues such as transparency, accountability, the rule of law and “free and responsible […]
MONDAY, 5.00PM SOUTH Africa’s democracy could collapse if the corruption of the police and the judicial system by organised crime syndicates is not stopped, Deputy President Thabo Mbeki warned on Monday. Speaking after the weekend meeting of the African National Congress’s national executive committee, Mbeki also said elements of the previous apartheid government’s security forces […]
MONDAY, 12.50AM: GAUTENG Lions captalised on the poor kicking of Mpumalanga Pumas to win their Currie Cup match 27-26 on Sunday. Mpumalanga squandered 12 extra first-half points through missed kicks at goals. Lions scrumhalf Johan Roux saved his team after by scoring two tries, converting two of them and converting two penalties for a personal […]
MONDAY, 5.00PM The conflict between the National Union of Mineworkers and the Mouthpiece Workers’ Union at Anglo American Platinum Mines near Rustenburg took a turn for the worse at the weekend, when a NUM shopsteward was murdered on Saturday, and another two NUM members were killed on Monday morning. At 2am on Saturday, a group […]
MONDAY, 5.00PM POLICE at the weekend arrested several alleged vigilante leaders in Northern Province in connection with the murder last week of four people in Sekhukhuneland, provincial safety and security MEC Seth Nthai said on Monday. The suspects were alleged leaders of a vigilante group known as Mapogo-a-Mathamaga, which had been accused of intimidating businessmen […]
David Beresford NAMIBIAN security forces, acting with the encouragement of President Sam Nujoma, have been accused of responsibility for the murders and disappearance of 1 768 Angolans on its northern borders. The claim has been made by a Namibian human rights group, the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), which has been monitoring the alleged […]