JAKE GERWEL, a close aide to President Nelson Mandela, said on Wednesday that he detected a desire by Libya to conclude the Lockerbie affair “as speedily as possible”. Gerwel, who travelled to Tripoli in a renewed bid to break the deadlock, gave an upbeat assessment of the talks in a BBC interview.Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi […]

GOVERNMENT is due to issue a discussion paper in June on electronic commerce — e-commerce — in an attempt to bring commercial law up to date with developments in e-commerce technology and practice. The paper will propose legal and regulatory guidelines for e-commerce and to promote technology. The discussion paper is the first step in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 3.30pm. ORLANDO Pirates has fined midfield star John Moeti R500 or he must sit out the rest of the premiership season without salary. Moeti failed to play in a league match two weeks ago. Pirates’s disciplinary committee chief Cyril Kobus said Moeti was fined R20000, but R15000 of the penalty […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 10.00am. THE Tuesday night arrest of fugitive and heist artist Collin Chauke has captured the public imagination and dominated the Thursday morning press. Chauke’s lawyer alleged that his client was assaulted and has head wounds but Nelspruit police have denied this. They say that he may have hurt himself while […]

BILL CLINTON’S long-awaited Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, involving a free-trade package for Africa, was resurrected in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday. The Bill was killed in the Senate last year and was due to be reintroduced in the House of Representatives with revisions this year. Concerns about textile imports threatening certain […]

A HUMAN rights group in Swaziland on Wednesday expressed grave concern about a new law introduced by King Mswati III giving traditional chiefs sweeping powers. The controversial law, enacted last month without parliamentary debate, could threaten national unity and turn people against the chiefs, said the Human Rights Association of Swaziland’s Joshua Mzizi. The Swazi […]

THE Algerian government has been “totally silent” regarding violence against women who face abduction, murder and rape at the hands of insurgents, the International Federation of Human Rights said on Thursday. The federation said in a report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women that Algerian women also face “institutionalized […]

THE Reserve Bank is facing fresh scrutiny of its apartheid past if President Nelson Mandela grants permission for a new probe into its activites in the final days of white rule. Department of Justice Deputy Director General Deon Rudman confirmed that an official team headed by Judge Willem Heath probing state malpractice has requested a […]

NAMIBIAN journalists Andreas Frai and cameraman Vincent Spiegel were arrested in the Botswana capital, Gaborone, on Tuesday and released on Wednesday afternoon, the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation reports. The journalists were in the country to report on the court appearance of former Namibian opposition leader Mishake Muyongo and 92 others, allegedly involved in a movement for […]