The SABC and Vodacom have launched a cellular telephone news service which news addicts will be able to dial into from any telephone from June 15. Newsbreak will initially feature three-minute bulletins, updated hourly, on local and international news, business and sport. The content will be provided by the SABC using its journalists and news […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH AFRICA were held to yet another draw in an international soccer match when they levelled 1-1 with Iceland at the Baiersbronn Stadium in Obertal, Germany on Saturday. Bafana Bafana put on a poor display in their final warm-up match before meeting France in their opening Group C match in Marseilles on Friday, […]
THE Oil Company of Malawi (Oilcom) said on Monday that the decision by national carrier Air Malawi to suspend refuelling its aircraft in Malawi will mean millions in losses for the local petroleum company. Air Malawi on Friday announced that aviation fuel in Malawi is too expensive, and it will refuel its Lilongwe-London flight, run […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK , Johannesburg | Monday 9.00pm THE African National Congress missed its two-thirds majority by just one seat in the National Assembly, in the final election results released on Monday night. The ANC achieved 66,35% of the vote, or 266 seats out of 400, in Parliament — one short of the 267 needed to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Tuesday 1.30am FORMER Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock said on Tuesday he would not have killed askari Johannes Mabotha if he had known Mabotha was to have testified against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in a possible high treason case. He told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee in Pretoria that he would […]
RESIDENTS of Nairobi woke up on Monday morning to find the city blanketed in a foul stench due to a sanitation workers’ strike. About 1000 employees of Kenya Refuse Handlers, the firm contracted by the Nairobi City Council to keep the city clean, went on strike on Sunday to protest against unsatisfactory wage conditions. Kenya […]
POLITICAL parties believed the Independent Electoral Commission had done a good job in running South Africa’s second democratic elections last week, IEC chairwoman Brigalia Bam said on Monday. Bam said all South Africans could be proud of the June 2 poll, which had been described as free and fair by 96% of respondents to a […]
THE South Western Districts Eagles thrashed Italy 47-10 on Tuesday in a warm-up to the first Test against the Springboks this weekend. The George team scored six converted tries – including a hat trick by centre Tiaan Joubert and a penalty try – to one. The second string visitor’s side was comprehensively outplayed, managing to […]
AN armed separatist movement which is holding four Europeans hostage in the Angolan oil enclave of Cabinda on Monday laid down its conditions for their release in a statement. The movement said that it has been holding the two French and two Portuguese oil industry personnel since March 20 to overcome what it called the […]
THE Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for Trevor Tutu, the son of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Tutu faces arrest for failing to appear in court on three charges, including two of tax evasion. The two charges of tax evasion relate to Tutu’s alleged failure to submit tax returns in 1996 and […]
The National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa has declared a dispute with Columbus Steel and Highveld Steel after the weekend’s wage negotiations reached a stalemate. Columbus Steel’s offer of a 6% wage increase was rejected by Numsa, as was Highveld Steel’s offer of an 8,5% increase on minimum wage. Numsa has also criticised […]
A TWO-DAY conference on aid and debt in Africa is due to begin on June 9 in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou, bringing together some 100 researchers and officials of multilateral lending institutions. The meeting, which will reconsider the role of the Breton Woods institutions on the African continent, will bring together academics and senior […]
THE White House said on Monday it will nominate Delano Lewis, a former National Public Radio director, to be the United States’ ambassador to South Africa. Lewis served as assistant director of operations for the Peace Corps in Nigeria in the 1960s and then as Uganda’s Peace Corps director. Later, he became director of Peace […]
THE New National Party’s federal executive started a ‘strategy’ meeting at an undisclosed venue outside Cape Town at 10am on Monday. NNP spokeswoman Juli Kilian said it is a routine planning meeting which had been scheduled some time ago, with the party’s election performance and its future role on the agenda.
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.30am. WESTERN Province and Stormers wing Breyton Paulse is the new black Springbok in the “attacking” team named by coach Nick Mallett on Monday. Paulse, who comes in on the right wing for Stefan Terblanche, is certain to bring his attacking flair after excelling in this aspect of play in […]
MONDAY, 3.00PM: A CONSORTIUM reportedly backed by financier George Soros has, since May, been planning a takeover bid for Lonrho Africa, the recently spun-off trading arm of British conglomerate Lonrho, the Sunday Telegraph said. The consortium is expected to wait for Thursday, when Lonrho Africa is expected to post poor interim results which could depress […]
THE inspector general of the Namibian Police, Lieutenant-Geneneral Lukas Hangula, on Monday urged African governments to seriously tackle economic crime, saying it is an evil of concern to the whole world. He said crime patterns in Africa split into two major areas: physical or violent crimes such as murder, rape, assault and homicide and crimes […]
LIBYAN leader Moammar Gadaffi is to visit South Africa ahead of the June 16 inauguration of Thabo Mbeki as president, outgoing President Nelson Mandela announced on Sunday. Speaking at his official Genadendal residence in Cape Town after lunch with the Libyan leader’s wife, Safia Farkash Alba Rassi, and daughters Aisha and Hanna, he said: “As […]
SOUTH AFRICA has embargoed the import of Belgian poultry, pork, beef and dairy products which could be contaminated with the cancer-causing chemical dioxin. The department of agriculture says a “few thousand tons” of Belgian products already imported will not be released. The government will review the embargo after receiving a list from Brussels of contaminated […]
SPRINGBOK centre Christian Stewart, who also played in the last two Rugby World Cups for Canada, has been forced to retire because of a neck injury. He played 14 times for Canada and three for South Africa. The 32-year-old Western Province player has been out of action since the Springboks’ test against England at Twickenham […]
OUTGOING coach David Lloyd urged England here on Tuesday to replace him with an Englishman, suggesting foreign coaches would not have the passion needed for the job. “I was asked about my opinion and in my own mind, I’m absolutely certain it has to be an Englishman,” he said. “I just think that if it […]
THE South African Police Union in the Western Cape handed 93 spent cartridges to the Independent Complaints Directorate in Cape Town on Thursday, symbolising one for every member killed in South Africa so far this year. Sapu’s national negotiator Andy Miller says union members originally planned to hand their firearms to the ICD, to express […]
FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Philippe Troussier was on Saturday issued with a verbal warning by the Japan Football Association (JFA) for making critical comments about a tournament sponsor. JFA general secretary Kenji Mori warned the Frenchmen after the coach’s reported remark on the on-going Kirin Cup tournament in Japan. Mori warned Troussier not to make […]
THE Harare police station in Khayelitsha, near Cape Town, was on Sunday evening attacked by armed robbers who stole firearms and ammunition, Western Cape police said. The three armed men tied up the police constable on duty and opened the safe from where they took a shotgun and ten rounds, two 9mm handguns, ammunition and […]
THE British government has reportedly deported the Zimbabwean Bazaya family, whose mother worked at the Zimbabwe High Commission, after their son allegedly attacked a next-door neighbour and then escaped prosecution on the grounds of immunity, it was confirmed yesterday. Tyrone Bazaya, in his mid-20s, was accused of repeatedly punching John Murray, an assistant at the […]
ENGLAND’S early exit from the cricket World Cup was due as much to India’s fans as to their own blunders, South African pace bowler Allan Donald said on Wednesday. “It was like Calcutta out there and England couldn’t handle the pressure,” Donald said. England lost to Mohammad Azharuddin’s side by 63 runs after a batting […]
FREEDOM Front leader Constand Viljoen on Friday said he will “go farming” if the Afrikaner people could find no role for him to play following his party’s disappointing showing in Wednesday’s national and provincial elections. He told the media at the election results centre in Pretoria he will consult fellow-Afrikaners on his future, and make […]
SOUTH African World Cup coach Bob Woolmer, a front-runner to succeed David Lloyd as England’s coach, all but ruled himself out in London on Wednesday saying he needs a break from the sport. Woolmer, a former English Test batsman who has been coaching South Africa since 1994, was on the England shortlist after Lloyd left […]
FOR the second successive grand slam SA are assured of a player in the finals of the mixed doubles. David Adams and Mariaan de Swardt won the Australian Open mixed doubles title in January and today Grant Stafford and Nannie de Villiers will play Pietie Norval and Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik for a place in the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Saturday 5.30pm. SOUTH Africa became the second country to qualify for the 2000 African Nations Cup when they defeated Mauritius 2-0 at Kings Park here on Saturday. Dreadlocked midfielder Thabo Mngomeni broke the deadlock in a tense Group 4 qualifying tie after 57 minutes with a close-range shot and substitute Benni […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.50am. THE list of qualifiers for the 2000 African Nations Cup rose to eight on Sunday when Burkina Faso, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo clinched places. Tunisia sealed an invitation to the biennial showpiece during April and they were joined by Gabon, Morocco, South Africa and Zambia on […]
MPUMALANGA’S chief traffic inspector is back at work after being convicted of drunken driving and escaping from custody last month. Alpheus Mavela Ngwenya was fined only R2000, and KaBokweni Magistrate Ereskia le Grange said the sentence was lenient because he was going to lose his job. Former provincial traffic director Henry Brazier, who received a […]