OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bloemfontein | Monday 2.00pm. SOUTH African captain Hansie Cronje handed down a warning to the West Indies just three days ahead of the first Test here on Monday when he led his Free State provincial side to a remarkable two wicket win over the tourists. Cronje, who was unbeaten on 158, and fast […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Monday 5.20pm. SOUTH AFRICA’S real Gross Domestic Product fell a weighty annualised 2,3% during the third quarter of 1998, compared with the second quarter of 1998, according to the latest figures released by Statistics South Africa on Monday. The figures surprised even the most pessimistic economists, falling way below the market […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday 1.10pm. POLICE in Zimbabwe have arrested 12 villagers for failing to comply with court orders to vacate white-owned farms they have invaded. The villagers were last week served with eviction orders to leave the farms they had seized and occupied in recent weeks. The Herald reported on Monday that on […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Tipoli | Sunday 5.30pm. ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe and his wife arrived in Libya on Saturday aboard a private aircraft in violation of the United Nations air embargo in effect against Tripoli since 1992. Radio news reports that Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi commended Mugabe for his “courage”. Shortly after his arrival Mugabe met […]

DENIS BARNETT, Gabarone | Sunday 7.30pm. TALKS to convince Democratic Republic of Congo rebels to adopt a ceasefire plan ended in Botswana’s capital Gabarone on Saturday, with rebels and officials from a four-nation contact group saying progress has been made towards peace. Southern African Development Community official said the rebels had behaved “like a group […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Sunday 6.30pm. ZIMBABWE’S increasingly vocal labour movement on Saturday stepped up its demands in a confrontation with the government, and reserved the right to take further strike action. The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, which has paralysed the country through two national strikes in the past two weeks, refused say whether […]

LEONARD NDZHUKULA, Nelspruit | Sunday 7.00pm. THE African National Congress has accused police of direct complicity in the assassination of a senior party leader and the poisoning of another in Mpumalanga last week after officers allegedly ignored desperate pleas from the party for protection. Police confirmed they were aware of the allegations on Friday but […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Mbabane | Sunday 7.00pm. AN unknown group calling itself The Tigers has claimed responsibility for the Swaziland bomb blast two days ago which killed one person and injured nine others. An anonymous caller told the Times of Swaziland that the group had planted Friday’s bomb, which destroyed part of the offices of Deputy […]

Review of the week : Miles Keylock There are several reasons why Janet Jackson’s Cape Town performance on her Velvet Rope Tour was the massive success it was. It’s been close on a decade since she emerged from brother Michael’s shadow and the Nineties has seen her constantly re(de)fining her musical and stage personae. In […]

Angella Johnson : View From a Broad They say that money can’t buy you love. Well, it can at least get you the body and face of your dreams. I had been considering cosmetic surgery for some time – nothing radical, mind you, just a little liposuction on the adipose tissue in my stomach. But […]