SHARRON HAMMOND, Nelspruit | Tuesday 8.00pm. MPUMALANGA’S suspended parks chief, Alan Gray, refused to answer written questions about his business dealings with government or government contractors on Tuesday and instead threatened to sue reporters. Gray said in a lawyer’s letter that elements within the media were conducting personal crusades and vendettas against him and had […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 8.30pm. THE strike by employees belonging to the South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union on Monday forced the Edgars group to close certain operations, including shops in the Johannesburg CBD. Workers toyi-toyied outside shops, and several scuffles with police ensued, resulting in four workers being injutred and 10 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 10.15pm. A NATIONWIDE strike by retail group Edgars workers moved into the second on Tuesday, with an increasing number of branches being forced to close their doors as the strike gathered momentum. By Tuesday afternoon the group had closed 11 branches and subsidiaries. The workers demand that management lift a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maseru | Tuesday 9.45pm. THE streets of Maseru were packed on Tuesday as scores of people flooded into the Lesotho capital to do their banking and survey the damage caused by vandals during the invasion of Southern African Development Community troops. Activity in the devastated country appeared to return to normal as magistrates’ […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 11.00pm. PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela is setting a potentially dangerous precedent in raising funds for cleric Alan Boesak’s legal fees, Pan Africanist Congress spokeswoman Patricia de Lille told SABC3 on Tuesday. Earlier both the Democratic Party and the National Party had criticised the move, saying that Mandela’s personal involvement in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, New York | Monday 11.30pm. THE United Nations Security Council held preliminary discussions Monday on an Arab-sponsored draft resolution demanding a UN investigation into the bombing of the El Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan by the United States last month. In particular the resolution demands an investigation into the US claim that the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maseru | Monday 10.00pm. SOUTHERN African troops will remain in Lesotho until order is restored in the country, the defence ministers of Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana said in Maseru on Monday. Speaking at the Lesotho government complex, the ministers maintained that the military intervention in Lesotho last week by troops from South […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 9.45pm. SOUTH Africa’s 1998 Davis Cup record crashed to an embarrassing 10 played and ten lost after they were annihilated 5-0 by the Czech Republic in their World Group promotion/relegation tie on Sunday. The South Africans were already 3-0 down in the best-of-five-sets tie when captain Danie Visser decided to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.00am. KENYAN athletes dominated at the World Half Marathon Championships in Zurich on Sunday, with defending champion Tegla Loroupe and Paul Koech claiming the men’s and women’s titles, giving the nation a sweep of gold for the second year in a row. Loroupe covered the 21,1km course in 1:08:29 to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kigali | Monday 11.30pm. THE rebels fighting to oust Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila have requested international humanitarian organisations to help shift about 20,000 Tutsi Banyamulenge from south-eastern Katanga province. Rebel-controlled radio Bukavu, monitored in Cyangugu across the border in Rwanda, said on Monday that the deputy governor of South Kivu, […]