TUESDAY, 4.30PM ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe, in his opening address to parliament, unveiled his most comprehensive plan yet to strip whites, foreign nationals and foreign companies of a total of 8,3-million hectares of land, intended for redistribution among the country’s 11,5-million black people. A tax that will make large holdings unaffordable, a “one man one […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: SOUTH African Football Association general manager Dennis Mumble confirmed on Monday that Bafana Bafana will play World Cup ’98 hosts France on their home ground in Lens in October. This World Cup build-up will be South Africa’s second match on European soil. They lost to England 2-1 in May. In order for South […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM: THE United Cricket Board of South Africa has announced its support for the Australian proposal to allow international series matches to be played under lights. Floodlights have been used to eliminate poor visibility and to finish the overs in one-day cricket, and the rule may soon be extended to series matches, if the […]
MONDAY, 11.15AM: LEONARD CHEUNE retained the presidency of Athletics South Africa (ASA) at the national body’s annual meeting at Esselen Park on Saturday. This was after the Western Province Athletics boss, Alex Marshall, withdrew his nomination for president and vice-president, leaving Cheune unopposed for the top position. The Gauteng North chairman, Stix Stiglingh, won the […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM UNPRECEDENTED conditions are being imposed on a new SA airline, Air South Africa, which intends to start thrice-weekly flights between Johannesburg and London via Malta later this year. The tough new conditions are the first enforcement of new legislation promulgated following the disastrous collapses in recent years of three infant airlines in SA. […]
BIG FREEZE TEMPERATURES plummeted across the country overnight as a new cold front swept inland, with daytime temperatures not expected to top 12 degrees C. Snow is falling in the Western Cape mountains and in Lesotho and the eastern Free State. Meanwhile, President Nelson Mandela and Welfare Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi will on Monday visit flood-hit […]
MONDAY, 4.30PM THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing in Pietersburg in the Northern Province on Monday heard a former security policeman tell how six Umkhonto we Sizwe members were killed in an ambush near the Botswana border in 1987. Mathews Sehlwana, 43, said his task as member of the security police was to gather information […]
MONDAY, 9.00AM: SOUTH African rugby has hit a crisis of confidence with Saturday’s 18-15 defeat of the Springboks to the touring British Lions. Despite an inspired performance, the Boks lost the game and, with it, the series because of the lack of a consistent goal kicker. Meanwhile, flanker Ruben Kruger is ruled out of further […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM LATEST Reserve Bank figures show that both credit extension and money supply growth finally began moving in the same direction, with both figures falling between April and May, leading to expectations of at least one interest rate cut within the next few months. Private domestic credit extension grew by an annualised 16,57% in […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM LAST week’s gazetting of a draft Bill giving statutory recognition to the National Home Builders’ Registration Council has set the scene for a clash between government and the Building Industries Federation of SA. The draft Bill makes it an offence to operate a business as a home builder unless registered with the council, […]