TUESDAY, 3.30PM NINETEEN-year-old Daniel Coetzee was sentenced on Tuesday to 40 years’ imprisonment for his part in the Christmas Eve Worcester double bombing, in which a woman and three children were killed and more than 50 people injured when two bombs exploded among Christmas shoppers in the Western Cape town. Coetzee was on Monday convicted […]
TUESDAY, 5.30PM AS paramilitary police patrolled the Zambain capital Lusaka and provincial towns on Tuesday amid continuing nationwide protests at the weekend shooting of former president Kenneth Kaunda, the Zambian government appointed a commission to investigate the shooting incident. Making the announcement, Vice-President Godfrey Miyanda again denied the government had ordered the shooting of Kaunda […]
TUESDAY, 1.00PM NATIONAL Party leader FW de Klerk is to formally announce his resignation as party leader and his departure from politics on Tuesday. Cape Town Afrikaans daily Die Burger reported on Tuesday morning that De Klerk informed his nine provincial leaders of his decision on Monday afternoon. The National Party’s executive federal council has […]
TUESDAY, 1.30PM: NORTHERN Transvaal will be without four of their seven Springboks — Krynauw Otto, Danie van Schalkwyk, Andre Snyman and Ruben Kruger — because of injuries, when they face Gauteng Lions in a Bankfin Currie Cup match at Loftus Versveld Stadium on Saturday. Scrumhalf Joost van der Westhuizen, flank Schutte Bekker and prop Marius […]
TUESDAY, 1.30PM: OLYMPIC gold medallist Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia wants to reclaim his 5 000m world records when he runs in Berlin on Tuesday night. Gebrselassie lost his two world records to two Kenyans on Friday. Daniel Komen shattered the 5 000m mark with a time of 12min 39,74sec and Paul Tergat broke the 10 […]
TUESDAY, 1.30PM: SPRINGBOK flyhalf Jannie de Beer has become the 22nd South African rugby player to join the 1 000-point scorers club. His 26 points against Australia on Saturday took his points tally in first class rugby to 1 023. De Beer, who has scored 77 points, including two tries, in his last five Springbok […]
TUESDAY, 1.30PM: ORLANDO Pirates midfield maestro Tebogo Moloi has been transfer listed. Moloi immediately expressed his desire to join Pirates’ rival team Kaizer Cheifs. Pirates CEO Irvin Khoza said he decided to put Moloi on transfer list after a weekend newspaper quoted him saying he was not happy at Pirates. He said the club will […]
MONDAY, 12.00NOON: THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange may follow the lead of Old Mutual and Sanlam insurers by demutualising, with listing a possibility, according to JSE president Russell Loubser. Loubser said he had first suggested the move when he took over his position in January, but it had been regarded as a heresy. However, recent announcements […]
TUESDAY, 12.00NOON: THE SA Callback Association together with 10 local callback operations on Monday served papers on the SA Telecommunications Regulatory Authority alleging that by banning callback services, Satra acted beyond its powers. The case is scheduled to be heard next week in the Witwatersrand division of the High Court. The SA Callback Association claims […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: THE Springboks won their final Tri-nations Test match against Australia 61-22 at Loftus Versveld Stadium on Saturday. The Boks scored six tries in the second half to add to two first-half tries. The victory takes some of the pressure off coach Carel Du Plessis, widely expected to be axed if his team failed […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: MAMELODI Sundowns beat Wits University 1-0 in their Premier Soccer League match at Odi Stadium on Sunday. New signing Alex “Barnes” Bapela scored the goal that saw the “Brazilians” move up to second place in the log. Moroka Swallows beat Cape Town Spurs 2-1 at Orlando Stadium on Sunday. Striker Alex Monau scored […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: ORLANDO Pirates went down 2-1 to Premeiro of Angola in the African Champions League match at FNB Stadium on Saturday. Pirates, who are favoured to win the league, scored first through midfielder Dumisani Ngobe. In the 46th minute, Ngobe connected a cross from striker Jerry Skhosana and smashed it into an empty net. […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: THE Third African Junior Athletics Championships ended on Saturday with host, Nigeria, leading with 21 medals, made up of seven gold, six silver and eight bronze. South Africa placed second with seven medals, including five gold, one silver and one bronze. Kenya followed with seven medals — four gold and three silver. Eighteen […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM: AMERICAN Dow Chemical Company has increased its offer to take over embattled chemical giant Sentrachem after two weeks of stiff negotiations following the refusal of Dow’s initial R10,50 a share offer by Old Mutual, Sentrachem’s second-largest shareholder. Dow at the weekend announced a raised offer of R11,75 a share. The original offer was […]
FRIDAY, 11.30AM: A WORKSHOP held on Friday to plot the way forward for restructuring SA’s R20-billion electricity distribution industry reached broad agreement on consolidation of the industry into regional distributors top boost electricity delivery to 2,5-million households by 2000. Mineral and Energy Affairs Minister Penuell Maduna told the meeting, called to set up a stakeholders’ […]
FRIDAY, 5.30PM OVER 90% of the of taxi drivers belonging to the South African Long Distance Taxi Association (Saldta) in the Mabopane-GaRankuwa area refused to operate on Monday morning in protest at new legislation which requires them to display permit stickers on their vihicles. Odi public order policing spokesman Superintendent Steve van Heerden said taxis […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM FORMER Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda was shot in the forehaead and wounded on Saturday when police attacked an opposition rally at Kabwe, 140km north of the capital Lusaka. Also hit by the same bullet that injured Kaunda was Liberal Prograssive Front leader Roger Chongwe, who was hit in the neck and is recovering […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM: SA BROADCASTING Corporation chairman Zwelakhe Sisulu, in a newsletter to staff, has outlined a transformation strategy for the state broadcaster which includes privatisaing the operations division, a radical makeover for radion, and redfining the identity of each television channel. Sisulu told staff that “the worst is now over”, while acknowledging a lack of […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM The rand sategd a comeback on Friday, strengthening more than 5c against the dollar to below R4,70 on a combination of export activity, a weaker dollar and Reserve Bank intervention follwoing its fall to its lowest-ever level against the dollar on Thursday. The rand ended Friday at R4,6940 to the dollar after traders […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: SOUTH AFRICAN junior flyweight sensation Masibulele “Hawk” Makepula beat Zimbabwean Nokuthula Tshabangu on points in their eight-round catchweight bout at Nasrec on Saturday. A bruised and bleeding Makepula admitted that it was the toughest fight of his career. “I now know what fighting at this level means. You don’t have to be clean,” […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: THE Managing Director of the International Cricket Board, Dr Ali Bacher, on Thursday announced a 24-man under-19 squad to play against their English counterparts in December and Janaury, then in the Under-19 World Cup to be held in South Africa from January 12 to February 2 . Bacher said the squad includes nine […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM ARMED raiders attacked 4 000 displaced Kenyans in a church compound overnight, killing at least three of them and sending the others fleeing. The latest attack brings the confirmed death toll in violence on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast to 43 since August 13. Many of the inland tribespeople who had sought sanctuary in […]
Maria McCloy Every time you ask anyone in the broadcasting world whether they know of any gay-oriented shows on South African airwaves, chances are they’ll refer you to In The Pink, a weekly programme on Cape community radio station Bush Radio. The show runs on Thursday nights between 8pm and 10pm. “It’s the only gay, […]
Olivia Strange If someone gives you a khanga (printed cloth) with a rooster on it, don’t make your thanks too effusive. The symbolism of the bird, according to Roland Karakashian, who manufactures these cloths in South Africa, suggests that the recipient talks too much. A guinea fowl print brings rain; a fish design should be […]
aThe new-look Mail & Guardian, with its striking new arts pullout, Friday, has been hailed by readers, media-watchers, and the advertising industry. The bulk of the redesign was done in-house by literary editor and chief designer Shaun de Waal, in consultation with Riaan de Villiers, a veteran journalist and production expert who works at the […]
The Phillips Curve never died – it simply moved, argues Richard Thomas Economists are unlikely victims of fashion. The closest most get to the catwalk designs is a subtle but daring contrast between the colour of their cords and elbow patches. But intellectually, for all its seriousness, the profession has developed a butterfly tendency to […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: The United Cricket Board of South Africa’s director of development, Hoosain Ayob, will leave at the end of September to join the International Cricket Council. This follows his appointment to spearhead the development of the game in Africa. Ayob’s task is to spread cricket in 14 African countries where a sound base had […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM COSATU’s week of one-day regional strikes in support of its demand for changes to the draft Basic Conditions of Employment Act moves to Gauteng and Northern Province on Thursday. THURSDAY, 6.00PM Cosatu-organised marchers in Johannesburg and Pretoria went off peacefully on Thursday. In Johannesburg, about 12 000 marchers presented a memorandum to the […]
FRIDAY, 2.30PM The minibus taxi industry should be smashed and rebuilt, according to Elias Mosunkutu, chairman of the Gauteng public transport standing committee. Mosunkutu made the statement after the province was accused of being ruthless in amending the Road Transportation Act to force taxi operators to register and obtain route permits by Lennox Mabaso of […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: THE Johannesburg City Council is threatening to cut off the water supply to the Reserve Bank’s Newtown headquarters unless a claimed R46 600 in arrears is not paid by the weekend. Bank manager Mike Smith denied that Bank is in arrears with its water payments. However, a council source confirmed that the Bank’s […]
The Zulu Messengers, exponents of isicathamiya, are being applauded in a documentary. Andrew Worsdale hung around on set Every Saturday night, virtually without fail, the 15 members of The Zulu Messengers congregate at the downtown YMCA in Durban with over 20 other groups to perform in an isicathamiya competition that lasts through until late Sunday […]
COPS SEIZE GOLD DUST POLICE seized about six tons of gold dust on Friday in a raid on a hostel in Thabong near Welkom in the Free State. A combined force of police and soldiers, assisted by security officers from local gold mines and traffic police, took part in the raid at about 1.30am. A […]