OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maseru | Tuesday 7.00pm. THE Lesotho Parliament cancelled its sitting on Tuesday after a day of protests by opposition party supporters in Maseru. In the morning, army and police intervened when government vehicles were seized by youths and driven to the royal palace in protest against the delay of the release of the […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.30pm. Local stock gained a little ground on a fairly quiet day’s trade on Monday. Dealers said the market had far stronger undertones, largely as a result of an improvement in international markets. Eastern markets picked up following Wall Street’s hike on Friday, with almost every market showing gains. In […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 9.00pm. BOTH windows of a bakkie, in which two People Against Gangsterism and Drugs supporters died, were closed when a bomb exploded in the vehicle, the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court heard on Tuesday. The case follows the death of Pagad supporters Faizel Hendricks, 30, and Nurulla Allie, 33, when a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kisangani | Tuesday 11.00pm. WITH five attempts at peace mediation now failed, the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading to pull in countries throughout the region. Sudan has sent 2,000 soldiers to bolster DRC President Laurent Kabila’s forces in the forward military headquarters of Kindu in eastern DRC, according to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.00pm. CONTROVERSIAL foreign affairs official Robert McBride has accused South African police of deliberately misleading their Mozambican counterparts to ensure he was charged for gun-running, leading to his imprisonment for six months in Maputo. McBride said he has approached the Independent Complaints Directorate to lodge a complaint against the SA […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Tuesday 7.00pm. A FORMER Kenyan game warden on Tuesday read an hour-long statement in a Kenyan court pleading his innocence in the murder of British tourist Julie Ward in Maasai Mara National Reserve 10 years ago. Shortly after his plea, Magistrate Uniter Kidullah ruled he is to stand trial as “there […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 9.15pm. A PARLIAMENTARY report on Tuesday on an investigation into allegations that South African Secret Service members were involved in smuggling Zairean generals and their loot into South Africa last year singularly failed to report any conclusive findings. Instead the document merely recommends tighter border controls. The multi-party committee […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Monday 9.15pm. TENSION is rising in Kenya over the government’s decision last week to shut down five Moslem non-governmental organisations as retaliation for the August bombing of the United States embassy in the capital, Nairobi. Kenyan Muslim organisations are claiming that US pressure led to the ban and that Muslims NGOs […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.30am. SHAUN POLLOCK’s cricket team put in a lethargic performance to beat Bangladesh by six wickets after the cricketing minnows posted a paltry 79 all-out. The South African batsmen then lost the plot completely, and were five wickets down before opener Herschelle Gibbs steadied the ship. The South Africans will […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Sunday 8.30PM. A HISTORIC deal has been signed to facilitate the redevelopment of Cape Town’s District Six, razed by the apartheid government in the 1960s. The agreement will pave the way for more than 45000 people, forcibly removed from their land and relocated on the barren Cape Flats under the […]