TUESDAY, 10.30AM: ENGLISH Second Division soccer side Fulham have snapped up South Africa’s number one goalkeeper Andre Arendse for an undisclosed amount. Fulham signed Arendse from Cape Town Spurs. “The club has apparently been highly impressed with Andre and he in turn feels that with Fulham aiming at a spot in the English Premier League, […]
TUESDAY, 5.30PM A JOINT committee of the National Consultative Forum, led by Bantu Holomisa, and the New Movement Process, led by Roelf Meyer, on Tuesday announced a new political party will be launched on September 27. In a statement from Johannesburg the committee said it believes the formation of the new political party is long […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM DESPITE arms industry executives making dire warnings about job cuts and project closures following the latest defence budget cuts, Denel acting MD Seshi Chonco on Monday announced preliminary talks with three Mediterranean and Persian Gulf states regarding possible purchases of the Rooivalk combat helicopter. Algeria, Turkey and Saudi Arabaia are reported to be […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM NEW regulations are about to be promulgated which compel local authorities to submit quarterly financial reports to the provincial affairs and constitutional development ministry. The move comes in the wake of findings by Project Viablity, a ministry initiative to monitor local government finances, that show about 200 local councils are in financial trouble […]
TUESDAY, 12.00NOON: MANNING RANGERS general manager Afzal Khan has asked the team’s supporters not to worry just because George Koumantarakis is gone. Rangers will soon sign five top players, three of them from outside the country. “Our supporters should not lose sleep because George is gone. In fact, the club is going to grow stronger […]
TUESDAY, 2.00PM AFRICAN National Congress Women’s League president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is set to enter the race for the party’s deputy presidency as the women’s league demands two positions among the ANC’s top six. The Sowetan on Tuesday quoted ANCWL sources as saying that since Deputy Presidnet Thabo Mbeki’s position for the party’s presidency is unassailable, […]
MONDAY, 8.00AM FORMER Zimbabwe President Canaan Banana finally made his court appearance yesterday on 11 sodomy and indecent assault charges — but neither the public nor the press were there to see the case. First, prosecutors switched the court room at the last minute in an abortive attempt to fool the public. Then magistrate Jaqueline […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM ISCOR is considering ending production at its Pretoria steel mill after the loss-making plant failed to turn around despite cost cutting and production changes. If the plant is mothballed, 1 400 jobs will be on the line. A decade ago the Pretoria mill led Iscor’s production, producing 800 000 tons of carbon steel […]
TUESDAY, 4.00PM The killers of American exchange student Amy Biehl appeared before the truth commission’s amnesty committe on Tuesday, where they explained that Biehl’s murder was inspired by the Pan Africanist Congress slogan “one settler, one bullet”. Earlier, Peter and Linda Biehl, the parents of the slain Fulbright scholar, shook hands with the parents of […]
TUESDAY, 5.00PM THE “Wit Wolwe” (white wolves), the shadowy rightwing group that rose to prominence after self-confessed Wit Wolf Barend Strydom went on a killing spree in Pretoria in 1988, never existed, but was a propaganda project of the Vlakplaas police hit-squad unit, Afrikaans daily Beeld reported on Tuesday. Quoting an unnamed former Vlakplaas operative, […]