OWN CORRESPONDENT, New York | Thursday 10.30pm. UNITED States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has suggested establishing an international centre to curb arms transfers. During a United Nations Security Council session devoted to Africa on Thursday she reminded the meeting of foreign ministers that the UN was overseeing work to draw up “responsible policies for […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maseru | Thursday 10.00pm. LOOTING and mayhem has spread thoughout Lesotho, while the capital, Maseru, remains volatile with mutinous troops and dissidents in the hills still shooting into the city at random. Althought the joint task force of South African National Defence Force and Botswana troops had regained some degree of control in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 7.15pm. QWA-QWA Stars thrashed Moroka Swallows 3-0 in a Castle Premier League match at George Goch Stadium in Johannesburg on Thursday. Stars striker Goodman Mazibuko scored a brace in the 63rd and 76th minutes, while captain Sipho Khuse scored the third in the 82nd minute from a cross in the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Freetown | Thursday 9.00pm A MASSIVE build-up of rebel forces has been reported along the Sierra Leone border. General Abu Ahmadu, commander of the west African peacekeeping force, Ecomog, in Sierra Leone, told a security briefing in Freetown that the build-up was a flow-on from events taking place in Liberia, where President Charles […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.15am. LEE TREVINO, multiple title winner and one of the great characters in world golf, has accepted an invitation to play in the R450000 Vodacom Senior Classic at Dainfern from November 20-22. Trevino, the wise-cracking Mexican who taught himself the game, won 27 tournaments including six majors on the regular […]

President Nelson Mandela was on Wednesday awarded the United States’ Congressional medal of honour, the highest civilian recognition awarded by the US, in a ceremony in Washington.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.00pm. ANGOLA on Wednesday lifted the month-old suspension banning Unita members from its government. Prime Minister Franca Van-Dunem said the decision had been made after consultations between the government and the provisional leadership set up by Unita dissidents who split from hardline leader Jonas Savimbi earlier this month. President Jos […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 7.00pm. A SQUAD of South African security policemen were stopped in a roadblock en route to plant a bomb in the African National Congress headquarters in London in 1982. This came to light during the testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty hearing where eight policemen are applying for […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Wednesday 7.50pm. Mpumalanga’s provincial executive council refused to grill the province’s finance MEC, Jacques Modipane, or other top politicians about their links with ousted parks chief, Alan Gray, for a second time on Wednesday. An earlier scheduled showdown between the executive council and Modipane was cancelled last week after the council […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.30pm NIGERIA’S military ruler, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, left Britain on Wednesday confident that his political reform programme will soon lead to the removal of sanctions against his country by the European Union. The union imposed limited sanctions — including travel restrictions on government officials — in 1995 after late General […]