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, 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 […]

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 […]

LEWIS MACHIPISA, Harare | Monday 11.00pm. A CONFERENCE will be held in Zimbabwe this week to raise money from the donor community for its controversial land reform programme. The conference, to be held from September 9 to 11, was originally planned for July, but was postponed amid speculation that few donors are willing to subsidise […]

MUNGO SOGGOT in Johannesburg | Monday 1.30pm. THE Johannesburg High Court on Monday dismissed, with costs, the R7-million defamation suit brought by Liberian politician Emanuel Shaw II against the Mail & Guardian. Deputy Judge President Monis Fleming threw the case out of court and ordered Shaw to pay the M&G’s costs, which are expected to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 7.00pm. SOUTH African business confidence fell to its lowest level in 12 years during August as the fragility of emerging markets was exposed in the global market instability, figures released by the South African Chamber of Business on Monday indicated. Business confidence fell 4,1 points during the 4,1 points over […]