OTAGO centre Jeremy Stanley has been suspended for three weeks after being cited for a dangerous tackle during a Super 12 match against the Sharks in Durban on Friday. The Sharks won the match 32-8. Stanley’s opposite number, Shaun Payne, did not have the ball when the New Zealander collided with him at full speed. […]
RWANDA’s local authority elections went into their second day on Tuesday, with officials expressing satisfaction at the conduct of the first poll since the genocide of 1994. Monday’s voter “participation was massive in administrative districts and there were no incidents,” Radio Rwanda reported. “In spite of the rain which lashed the whole country, people turned […]
THE managing editor of Inkatha Freedom Party-owned Durban daily Ilanga has been fired following a disciplinary hearing. Amos Maphumulo’s dismissal follows an editorial last week in which he accused whites and Indians of oppressing blacks and wished for the birth of a new Idi Amin in South Africa. The editorial was criticised from across the […]
SOUTH Africa has ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. In a statement on Tuesday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said South Africa deposited its instrument of ratification of the treaty with the United Nations secretary general on Tuesday. This follows the country’s signature of the treaty on September 24 1996, and approval by Parliament of […]
THE African National Congress is “within reach” of obtaining a two-thirds majority in the June 2 genneral election, according to results of a Markdata poll published in Afrikaans daily Beeld on Tuesday. The poll shows the ANC’s strong position, despite the party and its alliance partner, the SA Communist Party, having acquired few new supporters […]
MALAWI’S gross domestic product for the financial year ending July 1999 is expected to grow by 6%, up from 3,2% recorded in fiscal 1998. The National Statistics Office said the projected high growth stems from the rise in agricultural production, which will increase by 11,4%. This is expected to have a knock-on effect on other […]
ZAMBIAN police on Tuesday charged yet another journalist from the independent Post Newspapers for espionage in connection with an article about Zambian military capabilities. Dickson Jere said he was summoned to the police headquarters in the Zambian capital where he was interrogated by two officers before being charged with espionage. Earlier this month police charged […]
TANZANIAN authorities have arrested Rwandan ex-army officer Bernard Ntuyahaga, accused of killing Rwanda’s prime minister in 1994 and wanted for trial in Belgium on murder charges. Justice Minister Bakari Mwapachu said on Tuesday that Ntuyahaga was arrested in Dar es Salaam on Monday night after being released by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sitting […]
THE National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union said on Monday that it will call a nationwide strike on April 28 in solidarity with tertiary education workers. Explaining the decision to strike, Nehawu spokesperson Makoko Lekola claimed tertiary education management used tactics at a recent Nedlac meeting to delay transformation in the sector. The union […]
KHULUMA Cellular 084, the black economic empowerment firm bidding for South Africa’s third cellular licence, announced the composition of its consortium on Tuesday. The partners are the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce, the Communications Workers’ Union, Black Management Forum Investments, change management consultancy Labat Africa, Phakamani […]
WORKERS at the state-controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation went on strike on Monday morning, demanding increased salaries. The workers have threatened to switch off transmission if their grievances are not addressed by management, which is locked in discussions with the employees’ representatives. The workers say they are the least-paid employees of all Zimbabwe’s media parastatals and […]
AIR Namibia has decided to retrench 150 employees with effect from April under a restructuring plan prompted by financial difficulties. Managing director Jaafar Ahmad said on Monday that, besides reducing staff, the company’s operations will also be streamlined and this could involve the closure of operations and departments. The process will start on April 26, […]
THE world’s largest gold producer, AngloGold, has predicted that 1999 will be a difficult year for the gold industry. Writing in the company’s 1998 annual review released on Monday, chairman Nicky Oppenheimer and chief executive officer Bobby Godsell cited gold prices as one of the hurdles facing the industry. However, Oppenheimer and Godsell forecast a […]
SHARES in sport television company SuperSport International Holdings gained more than 3% on Monday after it announced it was to acquire a stake in the Natal Rugby Union. By 12:30pm, the share had gained 10 cents or 3,03% to 340 cents in thin volume. SuperSport advised its shareholders in a cautionary notice that the company […]
THE United Nations Rwandan war crimes tribunal on Monday freed an ex-army officer accused of killing Rwanda’s prime minister in 1994 and currently wanted for trial in Belgium on murder charges. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, sitting in Arusha Tanzania, rejected a demand that Major Bernard Ntuyahaga, who is charged with the murder of […]
SUPER attourney-general, National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka, is investigating the possibility of appealing against the sentence of Benoni farmer Nicholas Steyn, who fatally shot six-month-old Angelina Zwane last year. Justice Minister Dullah Omar said on Monday that he has met Ngcuka, who is looking into the way the case was investigated, the evidence […]
UGANDAN troops killed 18 Rwandan Hutu extremists and captured four others, including one believed to have taken part in the murder of eight foreign tourists on March 1, the state-owned New Vision reported on Monday. The paper reported that Lieutenant Colonel Benon Biraro, the overall commander for western Uganda, said a clash between the troops […]
SOUTH Africa’s poultry industry will apply for anti-dumping measures to be taken against the United States following the apparent failure of tariff adjustments to various imports, says the Southern African Poultry Association. The association claims that adjusted tariffs have not slowed imports from the US, as much as 11000 tons of leg quarters between November […]
WINNIE Madikizela-Mandela upstaged her former husband President Nelson Mandela and African National Congress president Thabo Mbeki at the launch of the ANC’s 1999 election campaign in Soweto on Sunday. Mbeki kick off the campaign with a promise of accelerated change before some 2000 people in the Orlando soccer stadium. But Mbeki was drowned out halfway […]
MOUNT Cameroon, a volcano about 70km from Cameroon’s economic capital, Douala, erupted and began spewing lava late on Sunday, people living close to the mountain said. Initial reports said there have been no casualties so far and the lava flows do not directly threaten any inhabitants. However some radio and television installations have been damaged. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kigali | Monday 1.30pm RWANDA’S people gathered on Monday in schools, stadiums and other public places to take part in the first elections since the 1994 genocide, a poll seen by authorities as a key step towards democracy. Between Monday and Wednesday, voters are due to elect 116000 officials in Rwanda’s 154 communes, […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela unveiled a plaque and addressed school pupils in Azaadville, near Krugersdorp, on Monday morning after their school was officially renamed Ahmed Timol Secondary School. Timol, a Roodepoort teacher and African National Congress member, died in 1971 after being beaten and thrown by security police from the 10th floor of Johannesburg’s John Vorster […]
ORGANISED crime, drug abuse, domestic violence and corruption are the most serious non-political threat to the political stability of nations, United Nations under secretary-general Pino Arlacchi said in Pretoria on Monday. Arlacchi, who is on a five-day visit to South Africa, said in a speech in Pretoria that these problems threaten to undermine nation-building and […]
BEN LIMO led a Kenyan team to victory in the men’s short-course race over 4,2km on Saturday on the first day of the two-day World Championships in Belfast. The Kenyans, as usual, went straight to the front in a well-rehearsed team tactic. The race developed into a duel between Limo and teammate Paul Kosgei, the […]
AUSTRALIA’S triple world champion women Hockeroos wrapped up the series 3-2 when they shut South Africa out with a more organised game plan to win the fifth international of the series Sunday. SA bet the Hockeroos 2-1 to level the series at 2-2 on Friday. Two goals up in the first 10 minutes, Australia were […]
SPAIN’S Alberto Martin captured his first ATP Tour tennis singles title on Sunday, winning the $215000 Casablanca Open with a 6-3 6-4 win over compatriot Fernando Vicente. The 20-year-old Barcelona-born Martin, ranked 94th in the world, saw off Vicente, two years his senior and the world number 54 in an hour and 18 minutes. Like […]
MAKHAYA NTINI remains in the unchanged Border squad to play Griqualand West in the Standard Bank Cup final on Wednesday. The team, announced on Monday, that will take the field at Buffalo Park is the same that beat Free State in the semifinal last week. Border squad: Pieter Strydom (captain), Piet Botha, Vasbert Drakes, Tyron […]
THERE was no evident signs of forceful penetration on the woman who has alledged that South African cricketer Makhaya Ntini raped her, the East London Regional Court heard on Friday. District surgeon Dr Errol Green told the court that he found no medical evidence of rape and, as ejaculation did not take place in the […]
HUNDREDS of Zulu’s gathered at at the King Zwelithini Stadium in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, on Sunday morning to commemorate the 1994 Shell House massacre. In 1994 eight Zulu marchers were shot dead in front of the African National Congress Shell House headquarters when a gathering of Zulu demonstrators marched through Johannesburg in support of the Zulu […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 12.15pm. THE state’s debt burden has almost doubled over the past five years, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel told Parliament on Monday. Two of the main reasons are the rand’s devaluation and high interest rates, according to Sake-Beeld. Replying to a question in the national council of provinces, Manuel said […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Hong Kong | Monday 11.30am. SOUTH Africa is learning the art of seven-a-side rugby in a correspondence course with traditional rivals New Zealand as it rebuilds towards the next World Cup. The reigning 15-a-side world champions want to dominate the shortened version of the game as well, Sevens coach Deon Oosthuysen said as […]
TECHNIKON SA has signed up to rent space in the deserted Carlton Centre in downtown Johannesburg. The school will take over an entire floor, improving the outlook for the centre with its learner support operation. The centre is a leading indicator for the Johannesburg Central Business District, and the five-year lease negotiated with Amlease will […]