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/ 19 December 2005
A massive effort is under way to provide fuel to the two sectors most in need — the deciduous fruit farmers in the Western Cape and the summer rainfall farmers of Gauteng, Mpumalanga, the Free State and North West — the South African Petroleum Industry Association (Sapia) said on Monday.
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/ 19 December 2005
Retief Goosen made a crucial birdie putt on the 18th hole to win the South African Airways Open by one stroke from Ernie Els at The Links, Fancourt, on Sunday. Goosen posted a 70 for a 72-hole aggregate of 282, 10-under-par, while Els fired a five-under-par 68 for a 283 at nine under.
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/ 19 December 2005
Almost 25 years to the day after losing a memorable Mainstay Cup final against Orlando Pirates at Orlando Stadium, Moroka Swallows buried the ghost of that landmark defeat with a throbbing 3-1 Premier Soccer League victory over their old derby rivals at Orlando Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
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/ 19 December 2005
The Warriors piled on the agony for the Cape Cobras as they won their Standard Bank Cup match at Paarl on Sunday. A good comeback by the Cobras almost swung the match back in their favour, but by the end the home side remained rock bottom on the log, still seeking a victory after seven matches.
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/ 19 December 2005
Residents of Khutsong will hold a meeting on Monday following the lifting of a ban by police on public gatherings in the area. Violence erupted again in the troubled township, near Carletonville, last week when residents protested against the National Council of Provinces’ approval of legislation to do away with cross-boundary municipalities.
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/ 19 December 2005
Twelve customs and immigration officials have been sent to the Beit Bridge border post to help the handful of officials dealing with hundreds of frustrated travellers. Some travellers said they had been waiting more than 24 hours at the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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/ 19 December 2005
A man was found mauled to death in the tigers’ enclosure at the Bloemfontein zoo on Sunday, said police. Captain Elsa Gerber said an adult visitor to the zoo raised the alarm when he saw a body lying in the enclosure of two tigers at noon. ”We don’t know who he is, how he got there, where he’s from or anything else,” she said.
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/ 19 December 2005
North Rand police on Sunday arrested a 35-year-old man believed to be a hijacking and robbery kingpin, at his hideout in Tembisa. Spokesperson Superintendent Eugene Opperman said the man was wanted in connection with 14 cases of armed robbery in Gauteng.
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/ 19 December 2005
South Africa’s Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus Van Schalkwyk acknowledged on Monday that current legislation did not prescribe ambient air quality standards relating to emissions from bulk fuel storage facilities. Recognising the limits of the existing legislation, his department was "in the process of promulgating standards for benzene and other hydrocarbons".
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/ 18 December 2005
A fire destroyed more than 100 shacks and displaced hundreds of people in the Kosovo informal settlement in Phillippi outside of Cape Town on Saturday afternoon, Cape Town emergency services said. A control room operator said that fire fighters had controlled the blaze and were in the process of putting out the flames.
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/ 18 December 2005
While traffic volumes along major routes to holiday destinations declined by Saturday night, Arrive Alive said they were experiencing alcohol related problems on the roads. ”People are indulging in alcohol and many of them are travelling drunk long distances,” said Arrive Alive spokesperson Ntau Letebele.
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/ 18 December 2005
Kaizer Chiefs’ players mobbed an inspired Emile Baron after the hair-raising 2-1 Premier League win over Golden Arrows at FNB Stadium on Saturday night. The goalkeeper make two point-blank saves in the final 60 seconds that ensured three points for the defending PSL champions.
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/ 18 December 2005
Dean Elgar of Free State was unfortunate to just miss a well-deserved century by one run when he scored 99 against Border at Fort Hare University, Alice, on Saturday on the second day of the Coca-Cola Khaya Majola Cricket Week. Elgar made his runs off 154 balls with eight fours and Free State totalled 192-6 in their 50 overs.
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/ 17 December 2005
Charles Mbiza’s bicycle is more than a method of transport. It’s a metaphor for the state of rubbish collection in South Africa’s commercial hub, Johannesburg. The bike — actually more of a large tricycle — is one of several that were introduced to collect waste such as used paper cups during the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held three years ago in Johannesburg.
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/ 17 December 2005
Twenty people were confirmed dead by 9am on Saturday after the bus they were travelling in overturned and plunged into a river near Wepener, Free State police said. Captain Elsa Gerber said 77 other passengers were removed from the wreckage and transported to several hospitals in the province.
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/ 16 December 2005
”I am relieved, so relieved,” said an exhausted looking Trevor Ncube, the owner and publisher of the Mail & Guardian newspaper, after he landed in Johannesburg on Friday morning, exactly a week after his passport was confiscated by Zimbabwean authorities.
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/ 16 December 2005
As the South African president pondered the true extent of racial harmony on Friday, a group of rightwingers spurned Reconciliation Day celebrations and assembled separately to lament their perceived loss of power. President Thabo Mbeki said black and white South Africans may be marching in different directions, turning a blind eye to one another.
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/ 16 December 2005
South African Airways will divert one of its two daily London to Johannesburg flights to Milan for refuelling as a result of the fuel shortage at London’s Heathrow airport. The fuel shortage follows the explosion and subsequent fire at a fuel depot north of London on Sunday.
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/ 15 December 2005
South Africa should have prosecuted apartheid-era perpetrators of atrocities who refused to repent, retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Thursday as the country prepared to mark a decade since the creation of its truth commission. South Africans on Friday will mark a decade since the establishment of the commission.
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/ 15 December 2005
A South African Lotto winner has until noon on Sunday to claim a prize of R10 066 972, else the ticket will expire. Uthingo spokesperson Shenanda Janse van Rensburg said the Quickpick ticket was bought in Gauteng for the draw that took place on Saturday December 18 last year.
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/ 15 December 2005
About 200 people who flew to Johannesburg International airport from Lagos, Nigeria, entered South Africa on Thursday morning without having their passports checked. A Department of Home Affairs spokesperson said there were ”very few immigration officers around at that time to assist the passengers”.
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/ 15 December 2005
Local and international scientists have been invited to another round table with Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk to discuss the proposed culling of elephants in the Kruger National Park. A report from the South African National Parks board in July this year proposed the culling of the elephants.
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/ 15 December 2005
Gauteng police put a halt to a meeting on Thursday at Khutsong Stadium by residents protesting their municipality’s incorporation into the North West from Gauteng. Although the situation in Khutsong remained calm on Thursday, police maintained a strong presence in the area.
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/ 15 December 2005
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Neither the police nor the VIP protection services had instructions to bar the media from last week’s court appearance of former deputy president Jacob Zuma in Johannesburg, police said on Thursday. Editors sent a strongly worded lawyer’s letter to National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi on Tuesday.
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/ 15 December 2005
South Africans will on Friday mark a decade since the birth of its historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which exposed the brutal excesses of apartheid and for the first time gave mainly black victims a voice. The commission heard the harrowing testimony of about 21 000 apartheid victims and perpetrators.
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/ 15 December 2005
How appropriate. Moroka Swallows and Orlando Pirates will perform the last rites over one of the first temples of local football, Orlando Stadium, on Sunday. After this match, the stadium will be reduced to rubble in preparation for the building of a modern facility. Orlando Stadium is no ordinary ground, which is why the Swallows-Pirates match is the perfect choice, because this is no ordinary fixture.
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/ 15 December 2005
The decision of the Council of Arbitration for Sport to suspend American sprinter Tim Montgomery along with Chryste Gaines for doping violations means that the South African men’s relay quartet of Morne Nagel, Corne du Plessis, Lee-Roy Newton and Matthew Quinn have now become the world champions.
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/ 15 December 2005
The Eagles beat the Dolphins by eight runs with just four balls to spare in a nail-biting Standard Bank Cup cricket match in Bloemfontein on Wednesday night. Man-of-the-match Johan van der Wath and Roger Telemachus took three wickets apiece and helped the home team to defend their small score.
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/ 15 December 2005
It’s no wonder caretaker coach Clive Barker can ”hardly wait” to get away from Bush Bucks next week and back to his base in Durban after the Premier Soccer League wooden-spoonists slumped to another defeat against a rampant Silver Stars in East London on Wednesday night.
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/ 15 December 2005
South African National Parks (SANParks) has appointed the Compass Group as an interim service provider for all restaurants in the Kruger National Park. The appointment is for a one-year period, with effect from December 15. This follows SANParks’s successful application back in November for the liquidation of Vilayet.
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/ 15 December 2005
Word from Cape Town that Parliament had rubber-stamped a Bill that put an end to cross-border municipalities triggered violent protests in Khutsong on Wednesday. By evening, a police officer had been badly burnt during a petrol-bomb attack and five houses had been torched.
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/ 15 December 2005
Reflecting on concerns raised at a Cape Town municipal imbizo (meeting) on Wednesday, mostly around service delivery, President Thabo Mbeki emphasised the critical importance of local government. "Everything that government does will stand or fall … depending on what happens at local government level," he said.