President Nelson Mandela, in an interview published on Sunday, categorically ruled out a blanket amnesty for human right crimes committed during the apartheid era.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Tripoli | Sunday 9.00pm. A SETTLEMENT of the Lockerbie affair is “close,” Libya’s foreign ministry said on Sunday, one day after United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan met with Libyan officials in a bid to put an end to the matter “once and for all.” “A settlement of what is known as the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT , Sun City | Friday 6.30pm. SATURDAY UPDATE: LEE WESTWOOD of Britain took the lead on Saturday. He shot a record-equaling 65 on Friday, then an inspired 66 on Saturday, putting him two shots ahead of Justin Leonard, with Tiger Woods and Nick Price four shots behind him. Ernie Els is two shots […]

When structuring a salary package, negotiate on your net salary, writes Belinda Beresford It’s great getting a new job. But just because you and your employer have signed your sides of the contract, things may not be quite as straightforward as they seem. One cloud about to rain on your parade could be the taxman. […]

Mungo Soggot Minister of Trade and Industry Alec Erwin has denounced a Mail & Guardian report two weeks ago that his officials demanded cash cheques from companies attending a banquet. In a letter to the M&G, Erwin says: “No Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) official has ever asked for cash cheque payments.” He has […]

Chiara Carter Two separate Day of Reconciliation ceremonies will be held at Blood River where the government is hosting a R800 000 feast to mark the opening of a new memorial to Zulus who fell in the battle. On one side of the drift that divides the Afrikaans and Zulu memorials, Afrikaners will commemorate the […]

Friday night: Nashen Moodley Being a Durbanite recently arrived in Johannesburg somehow necessitates being constantly regaled with tales of malicious muggings and wanton violence. The locals seem to take to this (supposedly educative) task with much glee and I was told, quite matter-of- factly, that I would be attacked before the weekend was out. The […]

Tangeni Amupadhi Police in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs, including Alexandra, may have found the right ointment for their Achilles heel – carjacking. The men in blue have cut by half hijacking incidents in the past three months with an innovative crime- fighting initiative. The new plan circumvents the usual excuses about lack of manpower and resources. […]

ANN EVELETH, Johannesburg | Friday 1.00pm. KWAZULU-Natal’s new director of public prosecutions, advocate Mokotedi Mpshe, took office on Tuesday ahead of a disciplinary hearing that could result in his being struck from the roll. Mpshe, who faces seven counts of professional misconduct in a Pretoria Bar Council disciplinary hearing which is set to resume on […]

DAVID LEGGE, Johannesburg | Friday 1.15pm. GOAL-hungry Angolans Premiero de Agosto stand between Esperance of Tunisia and a place in the African football record books on Sunday. The clubs meet at the Citadela Stadium in the Atlantic Ocean city of Luanda with the North Africans defending a 3-1 lead from the first leg of the […]