OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kampala | Wednesday 8.30pm. A FORMER Ugandan cabinet minister and nine others have appeared in court in Kampala charged with treason. Assistant Police Superintendent Charles Dickens Ojakol, leading the prosecution, said that the 10 accused, and others still at large, plotted in Kampala and the Buganda region of central Uganda to overthrow the […]

DUDUZILE NKOMO, Harare | Wednesday 9.00pm. Duduzile Nkomo CONTROVERSIAL Zimbabwean member of Parliament Dzikamayi Mavhaire has repeated his call for President Robert Mugabe to step down. Mugabe has been in power for 18 years, since the country attained self-rule in 1980. Mavhaire, introducing a motion in Parliament which called on the government to undertake a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Freetown | Wednesday 3.00pm. THE West African intervention force Ecomog needs at least 2000 additional troops to put an end to the war in Sierra Leone. Ecomog spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Jimoh Okunlola said on Tuesday: “Ivory Coast, Gambia and Mali have promised their support. We need at least 2000 men, real fighters, as […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 7.30pm. LOCAL shares were lifted off their lows by some last minute unit trust buying today, but overall market sentiment was dragged down by disappointment over the direction of US markets. At the close, the JSE’s all-share index had lost 1.84%, the industrial index had fallen 1.65%, the financial index […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Wednesday 7.30pm. ANY threat to a member of the 14-nation Southern African Development Community will justify military intervention by other members, a meeting of defence chiefs has decided in Luanda. The meeting, attended by armed forces chiefs of staff of 10 SADC countries, was chaired by the Zambian representative, Solomon Mumbi, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.00am. DESPITE a bad start, South African middleweight champion Giovanni Pretorius won on points on Tuesday night in his eight-round bout against Russian Roman “Rauf” Babaev, at the Carousel north of Pretoria. The Russian came out well prepared in the first round, landing a heavy left-right-left combination early on, and […]

SHARRON HAMMOND and STAFF WRITER, Nelspruit | Tuesday 7.45pm. MEMBER countries of the Southern Africa Development Community are planning to drop their international borders and unite to form one region within the next 30 years, department of home affairs chief migration officer Patrick Matlou said on Tuesday. Addressing a public hearing in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, on […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.30am. ATHLETICS South Africa general secretary Banele Sindani said on Tuesday that South Africa’s Commonwealth Games athletics victories will mark a sea change in the relationship between athletes and administrators. “We have reached a turning point in South African athletics after the medals we won at the Games and the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.00am. THE government is making a push for low-cost housing rental in a bill that abolishes rent control and sets up a host of housing rental tribunals. The Housing Rental Bill, published this month for comment, argues that there is a general agreement that rent control curtails investment. The abolition […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.45pm. LOCAL stock had a disappointing day on Tuesday, closing flat despite expectation that the latest bull run will roll on into the week. Dealers said the pullback was surprising, as all major indices except gold ended in negative territory. Markets were influenced by a both international and domestic factors, […]