OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pietermaritzburg | Wednesday 9.00pm. AN executive member of the Mpumalanga Taxi Association told the Pietermaritzburg magistrate’s court on Wednesday that he is uanaware of any taxi-related violence. Delani Mncube, charged with murder, was appearing at his bail applictaion. He conceded that he knew five taxi operators, including former MTA chairman Kusakusa Paul Mthetwa, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 1.30pm. NON-governmental organisations have warned that foreign funding is shrinking and that many of them face closure unless government legislates for increased tax exemption and deductibility for local donors. Parliament responded on Monday by promising to speed up the process of deciding whether NGOs should get more tax breaks. […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Monday 5.15pm. TAKING its cue from stronger Asian markets, local stock rose like a battered Phoenix as investors returned to the market on Monday. Gold again led the charge, with the index rising 78 points (8,51%) as the gold price soared $1,85 an ounce to $288,70 from its London morning fix. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 9.15am. FORMER Springbok and Griqualand West rugby coach Andre Markgraaff will quit as coach of Griquas at the end of the year, and may take over the coaching position of the Golden Cats Super-12 team. Markgraaff was recently appointed managing director of Supersport Rugby Holdings, comprising Griquas, Boland Cavaliers and […]

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, […]