THURSDAY, 4.30PM THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission have tracked down Katiza Cebekhulu, who fled the country in 1992 while on trial as Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s co-accused on kidnapping and assault charges related to the murder of teen activist Stompie Seipei. Commissioner Yasmin Sooka, who is in charge of the TRC’s investigation into the Madela United football […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM: A BACKLOG of unplayed matches could delay the progress of second-round matches at Wimbledon in London, after rain held up play on Wednesday. The bad weather delayed South African Wayne Ferreira’s scheduled singles match against Rudolphe Gilbert of France. Doubles matches were also held up. South Africans waiting to take the court include […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM: The next three weeks have been described by boxing promoter Rodney Berman as the “golden weeks of South African boxing”, with several big-name fights on the cards. Baby Jake Matlala, former WBO junior flyweight champion, will fight Michael Carbajal in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 18. IBF bantamweight title holder Mbulelo Botile will […]
THURSDAY, 8.30AM: The biggest surprise among the three new faces in the injury-hit Springbok team is the inclusion of the relatively inexperienced Western Province back Percy Montgomery to replace Japie Mulder at centre. Montgomery’s Province colleague Pieter Rousow comes in on the wing to fill the gap left by James Small’s injury. Northern Transvaal’s Danie […]
TALK IS CHEAPER TELKOM announced cuts in rates of between 20% and 12% off international telephone calls to 29 destinations from July 1. The countries that it will be cheaper to call in future include United States, Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, Kenya and Taiwan. IRANIAN OIL SCHEME STALLED PLANS to import Iranian oil to […]
THURSDAY, 5.30PM MOZAMBICAN defence chief Lieutenant-General Lagos Lidimo has promised an investigation into allegations, first published by the Mail & Guardian last week, that weapons are being smuggled to Angola’s Unita movement via the northern Mozambican port of Nacala. “We have no information of arms being shipped to Unita through the Nacala port,” Lidimo told […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM BLACK empowerment group New Africa Investments Limited on Wednesday announced a R1-billion rights issue to finance a further equity purchase in Metropolitan Life, and to recapitalise the African Merchant Bank, which is soon to be listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Nail will also acquire part of SCS Communications’ 15,5% stake in cellphone […]
THURSDAY, 2.30PM MILITARY forces behind former Congolese dictator Denis Sassou Nguesso said on Thursday they had taken control of Brazzaville international airport. The rebels, in a radio broadcast, said the had been “forced to occupy” the strategic site because it had not been “demilitarised”. Demilitarisation of the airport was one of the key aspects of […]
WEDNESDAY, 2.00PM The annualised inflation rate in May fell to 9,5% from April’s 9,9%, according to latest figures from the Central Statistical Service. Reserve Bank governor Dr Chris Stals said he was “very encouraged” by the inflation figure. The drop in inflation over the month came despite a relatively large increase in food inflation. From […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s all gold index has not yet found the bottom in its current free fall, hitting a new four-year low on Wednesday for the 18th time in two months. The gold index shed another 11,2 points, or 1,2%, to 1 007,4, on the back of a continuing weak gold price […]