OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.00am. THE Golden Cats may end up using the Riverside Sun resort as their base for the Super-12 season next year, while taking advantage of training facilities in Vanderbijlpark, according to new coach Andre Markgraaff. Soon to be called simply “the Cats”, the team feels the Riverside Sun has the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENTS, East London and Johannesburg | Tuesday 9.00pm. AN Eastern Cape amnmesty applicant who took part in Fort Beaufort’s violent political conflict in 1993 faces the next six years in jail after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission rejected his application on Tuesday. The TRC’s amnesty committee, sitting in East London, refused to pardon former […]

FRANCIS XOAGUB, Namibia | Monday 9.30pm. THE Namibian Defence Force on Monday dismissed weekend reports that a consignment of artillery from South Africa destined for its Grootfontein army base is actually in transit to the Democratic Republic of Congo. A Namibian weekly newspaper reported on Saturday that TransNamib trucks hauling lowbeds with G-2 artillery pieces […]

AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Dar es Salaam | Monday 11.30pm. A TOTAL of 10,367 refugees from fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrived in western Tanzania since the start of fighting there two months ago, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said on Monday. A group of 147 were registered in Kigoma on […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.30pm. THE Cape Town businessman Vito Palazzolo has been named by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation as being a senior member of the Sicilian mafia group Cosa Nostra. Palazzolo entered South Africa illegally in the 1980s and was given South African citizenship in 1995 in spite of appearing […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT | Monday 8.30pm. TANZANIAN police and FBI investigators uncovered a vital clue in their inquiry into the August 7 bomb blast in Dar es Salaam on Monday when they stumbled on a piece of metal with the vehicle’s chassis number on it. The Tanzanian Daily Mail claims that Tanzanian and FBI investigators have […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.30am. AUSTRALIAN veteran John Fitzgerald beat five-time Wimbledon champion Bjorn Borg 7-5, 6-3 to take the R240000 MTN Champions title at the University of Pretoria on Sunday. Fitzgerald’s victory marked his first Champions Tour singles title, his previous best being a final berth in Saudi Arabia a few years back, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Arusha | Monday 8.30pm. THE subject of economic sanctions against Burundi will not be discussed at talks aimed at ending the civil war in the country, organisers said on Monday. The talks, due to start on Monday, have been postponed to Tuesday. “Sanctions are not on the agenda,” General Hashim Mbita of the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Monday 9.30pm. THE Anglo-Dutch oil group Shell has evacuated staff from the most volatile parts of the Niger Delta after a previously unknown group threatened the safety of foreign oil workers, Shell officials said on Monday. Armed youths last week seized 15 flow-stations belonging to the oil giant, which is the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Freetown | Monday 11.30pm. A MILITARY court in Sierra leone has condemned 34 officers to death by firing squad for crimes linked to the coup that toppled the elected government last year. The 34 were found guilty of treason, murder and other crimes committed by the junta, which held power for 10 months […]