OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Tuesday 9.30pm. A 19-year-old SBV security guard who survived the 1997 Bronkhorstspruit cash in transit heist, on Monday told the Pretoria High Court that he had to receive psychiatric treatment after seeing the mutilated bodies of two colleagues who were shot in the head at close range by the ambushers. A […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maseru | Tuesday 9.00pm. THOUSANDS of weapons stolen from the Lesotho Defence Force’s armoury by mutinous soldiers are still floating around Lesotho, the defence force warned on Tuesday. In his first public statement since he was reinstated after rebel troops deposed him last month, Lesotho Defence Force chief Lieutenant-General Makhula Masakeng said: ”What […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Freetown | Monday 10,00pm. SIERRA Leone’s notorious rebel leader Foday Sankoh appeared in court in Freetown on Monday and pleaded not guilty to nine charges, including murder, treason and crimes against humanity. Sankoh, the self-confessed leader of the brutal Revolutionary United Front, stood quietly before Justice Samuel Ademosu when all nine counts were […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 10.00pm. INTERPOL is conducting an international investigation into the South African tourism marketing body, Satour, over the alleged misappropriation of R1,9-million, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Dr Pallo Jordan said on Monday. In response to a written question by National Party MP Dr Marthinus Appelgryn in Parliament, Jordan said […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday 4.30pm. THE Zimbabwean economy is heading into a gruelling 18 months with both inflation and unemployment set to climb and the standard of living set to fall, a report by London-based Standard Chartered Bank said. The gloomy report by Zimbabwe’s largest bank cites a series of negative economic factors that […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 8.00pm. MEMBERS of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA will return to work on Monday after eight out of nine regions endorsed a wage package offered by employers. The ninth region is to meet to discuss the package on Monday. Numsa spokesman Peter Dantjie said workers would return to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.30pm. SOUTH African police will not interfere with a Namibian investigation into last Wednesday’s R60-million heist attempt at Karibib, 180km north-east of Windhoek, police director Reg Crewe said on Monday. The suspects arrested after the failed heist include three South Africans: Edward John Matjabane, Jacob Dugmore Sago and Mangaliso Peter […]
DANIELLE KNIGHT, Washington | Monday 8.30pm. UNITED States-based oil company Chevron on Monday admitted that it did have a role in an incident in Nigeria last May in which security forces shot at and killed two activists who had taken over one of the firm’s offshore oil platforms. Until now, Chevron held it was not […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Monday 7.00pm. A FORMAL commission of inquiry headed by a senior retired judge will be established to investigate the Mpumalanga Parks Board in the province’s widest ranging anti-corruption investigation yet, premier Mathews Phosa has announced. Speaking from his Nelspruit house, Phosa said the commission will investigate all possible irregularities in the […]
SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Monday 5.30pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange had a buoyant start to the week on Monday, moving higher on general goodwill after international credit rating service Moody’s Investor Services announced it is to retain South Africa’s investment grade credit rating. The news overshadowed even global frustration after the G7 grouping of the […]