OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 4.00pm. THE two members of Parliament who engaged in a fist fight on the floor of the National Assembly last Thursday were suspended from Parliament on Monday. Eastern Cape National Party leader Dr Manie Schoeman, who has admitted to landing the first blow, was suspended from Parliament for five […]

LEONARD NDZHUKLA, Delmas | Monday 7.30pm. A MAN who decapitated a young girl in Delmas, Mpumalanga, in 1990 has escaped from Weskoppies mental asylum and is believed to be on the loose in the small farming town. Police told African Eye News Service on Monday that Johannes Mohale-Monareng may be linked to three heads and […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Friday 5.00pm. LOCAL stock dragged through Friday to close slightly softer ahead of the welcome weekend. Dealers described the day as dull and directionless, with under R1-billion volume traded. Dealers said the calm is fairly typical after a futures close-out, and most dealers were squaring their position ahead of the weekend. […]

THE current global financial crisis calls for a complete rethink of the world’s economic systems, President Nelson Mandela said.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Goma | Monday 9.30pm. DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila has named a commission to review a report on constitutional change. Kabila, who hand-picked the members of the commission himself, said he was forced to abandon plans to present the study to parliament by “exceptional wartime circumstances”. The 12-man institutional reform commission […]

CHRISTIAN FIGENSCHOU, Johannesburg | Sunday 8.30pm. ROBERT McBRIDE will brief the Cabinet and African National Congress leadership about what he was doing when he was arrested in Mozambique in March, according to ANC legal chief Mathews Phosa. Phosa said on Saturday that the Cabinet has assigned Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi to deal with […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 8.30pm. THE three year talks between the European Union and South Africa over a sweeping free trade agreement fell through on Friday over the issue of concessions for agricultural products. The failure comes just days after both sides expressed hope that the three years of tough talks would be wrapped […]

SDIs are aimed specifically at boosting employment and black empowerment, but, asks Hein Marais, will they have the necessary finances? Right now the multi-billion rand Mozal smelter is just two holes in the ground – 3m deep, a kilometre apart, several football pitches wide – gouged out of a patch of pasture in Matola, outside […]

Belinda Beresford Careless use of your credit card could mean you are making your bank an interest-free loan. If you fail to pay your total credit card debt each month, your bank may charge you for the full outstanding amount – even if you have made a partial payment. Say your statement says you have […]

Food : Matthew Krouse Alighting from one’s car and approaching the Wangthai Restaurant, in Pretoria’s genteel nook of Brooklyn, one is greeted by the strangest apparition. A bevy of blonde waitresses, in flowing saris, bowing in infinite submission. It’s the start of a fabulous romance – the love we feel for our stomachs. Wangthai is […]