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EAST London police fired stun grenades and teargas as they raced a colleague to safety last night in an armoured personnel carrier under a hail of bricks and stones from a 300-strong mob baying for his blood. They were also forced to shut down a satellite police station indefinitely, after enraged Pefferville residents smashed windscreens […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.00pm. GOVERNMENT said on Tuesday it plans to float majority state-owned Telkom in 2001 and is proceeding with plans to sell off a stake to a black-owned partner and company employees. The cabinet sub-committee on the restructuring of state assets said in a statement it has approved the start of […]

FORMER captain Alec Stewart is to captain England in their one-day spell against a Gauteng XI in Lenasia on Wednesday. Nottingham’s Chris Read takes over the gloves for the first time on tour. The tourists have rested six of their key players with Darren Maddy expected to open the innings with regular Mark Butcher in […]

SASOL, the oil from coal pioneer, said it will improve its bottom line by R300-million for every sustained increase of $1 above the $16 level in the steadily rising derived crude oil price, according to the Business Report. The paper reports the derived crude oil price is now at $19 a barrel. If the derived […]

THE presidents of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania took another key step towards establishing a regional common market when they launched the East African Community on Tuesday. The East African Community treaty aims to create a free trade area in East Africa and to allow freedom of movement across borders for nationals of the three countries. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.00pm. SOUTH Africa recorded a R911-million trade surplus in October compared to a R1,37-billion surplus in September, the country’s customs and exise department said on Tuesday. Analysts forecast a deficit of R700-million. The cumulative surplus for the first 10 months of the year amounted to R13,09-billion compared with R966-million surplus […]

GOVERNMENT is due to present its draft wage policy for public servants to Cabinet on Wednesday, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Monday. She said that employer and labour unions are in general agreement on the major issues contained in the draft, although no formal talks have yet taken place. Plans to […]

THE office of Public Prosecutor, Bulelani Ngcuka, raided three properties of a 72-year-old grandmother in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban on Friday. The elderly woman is accused of embezzling several million rand from her employer, Mercury Engineering, over five years. The woman was in a retirement home in Simons Town in the Western Cape when […]

SOUTH Africa’s selectors have given Allan Donald a week off prior to the Port Elizabeth Test, starting next Thursday. Donald’s pace bowling, 11 for 127, destroyed England in the first Test at the Wanderers, but the Free Stater was struggling with injury before taking part. The selectors have also withdrawn the KwaZula-Natal trio of Shaun […]

THE Northern Province’s health department ordered its regional hospitals on Monday to immediately restock rural clinics with condoms after prostitutes in the area complained of shortages. The prostitutes complained that clinics ran out of condoms over a month ago, forcing sex workers to ply their trade on the busy N1 highway to Zimbabwe without any […]

SOUTH African maize futures contracts traded mixed on Tuesday, mirroring diverse views in the market on the extent and impact of recent rainfall in key growing areas. “The rains are very late. Although there is still time to plant, farmers are slowly getting concerned,” Giel van Zyl, general manager of the National Maize Producers Organisation […]

RENTALS for the more than 3,5-million postboxes in South Africa will increase by an average 10% next year, the Post Office announced on Monday. Albert Michau, senior general manager for financial services, said the rental for a small postbox will increase by R10 to R130 with the rental being payable by January 1 2000, he […]

MOZAMBICAN President Joaquim Chissano assured foreign investors on Tuesday his country would remain stable even if his ruling Frelimo party lost its parliamentary majority in elections due this week. But he told a southern African investment conference in Maputo that he was still confident his party would strengthen its parliamentary position after the December 3 […]

The Nelson Mandela Museum in the old Transkei parliament buildings in Umtata will be opened on February 11 next year.

A RELATIVE of King Goodwill Zwelithini was stoned to death near his parent’s palace in Nongoma in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Friday evening, police reported on Saturday. Prince Thokozani Thembenkosi Zulu, 26, was found dead in the Khekani area, about 500 metres from his home, at about 5.30pm after he failed to return home the previous […]

THE price of petrol will fall from midnight on Wednesday, December 1, 1999. The department of mineral and energy affairs said in a statement that petrol will fall by 1 cent per litre to R2,86 for unleaded fuel (91 octane) and R2,90 for leaded fuel (93 octane). The difference between the price of petrol at […]

ETHIOPIA on Friday urged South Africa to extradite former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam to stand trial for human rights atrocities he allegedly ordered during his brutal period of rule. Mengistu fled to Zimbabwe in 1991 just before rebel forces seized the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. He travelled to South Africa earlier this month to receive […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 9.00pm. SOUTH Africa completed their tenth consecutive home Test win when they beat England by an innings and 21 runs on the fourth day of the first Test at the Wanderers on Sunday. Shaun Pollock took the last two wickets to finish with four for 64. Pollock, with match figures […]

PRESIDENT Daniel arap Moi of Kenya, where AIDS kills 500 people every day, on Thursday declared the disease a national disaster, but declined to advocate condom use to fight the epidemic. Addressing the official opening of a four-day AIDS awareness symposium for legislators here on Thursday, Moi ordered the immediate setting up of a National […]

AN animal welfare group on Friday expressed concern over the plight of more than a hundred animals destined for China after a blue wildebeest died in a crate at the Johannesburg International Airport on Thursday night. Rick Allan, wildlife manager for the National Council of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA), […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 10.30am. SPORTS Minister Ngconde Balfour has given the South African Football Association an ultimatum to sort out its ongoing sagas and get it’s house in order or the government will intervene. “If Safa fails to put in place systems within this period to clean up football, government will step in, […]

ABOUT 2400 Angolans — mostly children, women and elderly people — have fled to northern Namibia over the last 15 days to escape fighting between Angolan government forces and UNITA rebels, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Friday. Many of the refugees are arriving in Namibia’s Kavango region in […]

THE Johannesburg High Court has handed down a life sentence to a 27-year-old man who raped a 9-year-old girl in October last year. Phillip Sikhosana was convicted of raping the girl at a Muldersdrift smallholding on the West Rand, The Star reports. Acting Judge Puke Maserumule on Thursday said courts need to protect children. He […]

Former president Nelson Mandela on Friday flew to Tanzania to pay his respects to the Nyerere family following the death of former president Julius Nyerere on October 14.

AN opposition party meeting was violently broken up by supporters of Namibia’s ruling SWAPO party just four days before general and presidential elections, reports said on Friday. A Congress of Democrats (CoD) meeting at the coastal town of Swakopmund on Thursday evening had to be abandoned after some 2000 supporters of the ruling South West […]

LEGENDARY African footballer Roger Milla, whose four goals helped propel Cameroon to the 1990 World Cup quarter-fianls, has been voted Africa’s Footballer of the Century, by African Soccer magazine. The London-based monthly made it’s choice from a pool of the continent’s top football coaches, players and experts. And it was the name of 47-year-old Milla […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki will visit the St Lucia wetlands on December 4, two days after the area is expected to be named as a world heritage site to protect and preserve it. Two days earlier, he will announce the world heritage decision at a news conference in Durban. On December 4, Mbeki will also report […]

ALL Black winger Jonah Lomu is expected to announce Wednesday that he has signed with the Wellington Rugby Union and will play for the Hurricanes in the Super 12 competition. Lomu’s signature is the biggest in international rugby and his transfer to Wellington will be a huge coup for the province. With fellow All Black […]

BOTSWANA Defence Force (BDF) XI have withdrawn from next year’s African Champions League competition saying they cannot afford the high cost of participating in the tournament. The Botswana champions cited the cost of travel and payment of the travelling costs and expenses of the match officials as the reasons for their withdrawal. The Botswana Football […]

THE draw for the first round of the Castle Cup Southern Africa championship have been made: Mar 4 – Zimbabwe v Lesotho Mar 18 – Zambia v Botswana Apr 1 – South Africa v Mauritius Apr 15 – Malawi v Mozambique Byes: Angola (holders), Namibia, Swaziland 26

ONE of the bidders for the third mobile phone licence said on Wednesday it fears the announcement of the winner could be snagged by a probe into alleged corruption at telecoms watchdog the South Africa Telecommunications Regulatory Authority. Dutch-registered Mobile Systems International Cellular Investments Holdings (MSI) said the delay could hit the business plans of […]

LOCAL retailers, damaged by the country’s recent economic woes, will get a boost from interest rate cuts, subdued inflation and upbeat consumer spending ahead of the millennium, analysts said on Friday. They said the retail sector’s pre-Christmas rebound is expected to take root despite the Reserve Bank’s move this week to put breaks on easing […]