OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Tuesday 3.00pm. ON the same day as human rights watchdog Amnesty International condemned Kenyan police brutality in its 1998 annual report, Kenya’s civil service chief Fares Kuindwa has criticised the same police for brutality and corruption, newspapers reported on Tuesday. Kuindwa told officers attending a police seminar they should tackle police […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Tuesday 10.00pm. KENYA on Tuesday deregistered six international Islamic non-governmental organisations as a direct result of the August bombing of the United States embassy in the capital, Nairobi in which 240 people died and 5000 were injured. Announcing the decision, government-appointed NGO Co-ordination Board chairman John Etemesi warned that the board […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Tuesday 11.00pm. FEARS of a full-scale taxi war in Kwazulu-Natal have risen after a prominent taxi boss was gunned down as he chatted to a friend in the street of Mpumalanga town on Tuesday. Maxwell Mata was allegedly assassinated because he was a key witness in a murder trial involving taxi […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kuala Lumpur | Tuesday 11.00pm. THE Commonwealth Games general assembly decided on Tuesday to limit the number of participating sports in future meetings to 14. The limit has been forced on officials as they struggle to compete against an ever growing international sports calendar. Other changes decided at the federation’s general assembly include […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 10.00pm. VARIOUS projects for the Loxton community in the Northern Cape could not be continued because overseas donor funds paid to the Foundation for Peace and Justice did not arrive, the Cape High Court heard on Monday. A community worker giving evidence at the trial of former anti-apartheid activist, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.00am. ANGLO American plans to develop a R4-billion zinc mine and smelter at Gamsberg in the Northern Cape, having secured an agreement to purchase a 90-million ton deposit from Gold Fields of South Africa. The new mine should create 2000 new jobs and produce 200000 tons of refined zinc a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kisanjani | Tuesday 9.00pm. THE rebels fighting to topple Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila have vowed to fight on until he has been ousted. Speaking in the Congolese city of Kisanjani following the failed summit at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, rebel commander Jean-Pierre Ondekane told journalists that the rebels will continue their […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.15pm. SOUTH African pint-sized Amanda Coetzer, seeded 13th in the US Open Championships, fought her way through an 150-minute monster match at Flushing Meadows on Monday to oust Spaniard Conchita Martinez. Coetzer’s victory secures her a place in the quarter finals of the Grand Slam event. Both baseline sloggers, the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 1.00pm. THE National Council of Provinces has passed the controversial Employment Equity Bill. The legislation was followed, on Tuesday, by a veiled threat from the Freedom Front that the affirmative action measures could spark violence. The bill, which requires companies to draw up and implement employment equity plans, was […]