OWN CORRESPONDENT, Tripoli | Tuesday 10.30PM. THE Arab League is to send a delegation to Libya to hold talks on the stalled Lockerbie-bombing trial deal, the League’s Libyan representative, Salma Rashed, said on Tuesday. A diplomatic official said the trip was part of Arab League secretary-general Esmat Abdel Meguid’s “efforts to find a quick solution […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Tuesday, 8.00PM. THE Zimbabwe government is about to declare it no longer has any interest in white-owned farms, Zimbabwe’s Agriculture Minister, Kumbirai Kangai, said on Tuesday. In his annual policy statement for the coming agricultural year, Kangai said he expected 1500 properties listed in November last year for confiscation to be […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday, 6.30PM. DETAILS of an agreement between government and teachers’ unions on rationalisation and redeployment is expected to be made public within a fortnight, Education Minister Sibusiso Bengu said on Monday. There are still “one or two matters” to attend to, he said, but is confident that redeployed teachers will […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 9.30am. SPRINGBOK and Mpumalanga Pumas scrumhalf Dan van Zyl is hoping for a recall into the Springbok rugby side after signing a contract to play for Western Province on Monday. Van Zyl toured Europe with the Springboks last year, but has fallen out of favour with national coach Nick Mallett […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Tuesday 11.30PM. SOUTH Africa has urged nations of the Non-Aligned Movement to pass anti-mercenary laws in a bid to outlaw international mercenaries from operating within and from member countries. The proposal is contained in an amendment to a draft resolution on mercenaries to be debated by foreign ministers on Tuesday, ahead […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Monday 10.00PM. THE agricultural development programme between Mozambique and South Africa, known as Mosagrius, has run into a serious financial crisis. Helder Muteia, Mozambican deputy minister of agriculture and fisheries, said the 26 South African and Mozambican commercial farmers who settled in the fertile northern Mozambican province of Niassa in mid-1996 […]

CHRISTIAN FIGENSCHOU, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00am. TWO more farmers were murdered in criminal attacks this weekend, prompting the Democratic Party to call for urgent action by government to adress the crisis. On Saturday, a retired Spoornet worker, Andre Stander (65) was murdered on his farmstead in Dysseldorp near Oudtshoorn in the southern Cape. Police spokesman […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Sunday 7.00PM. MPUMALANGA Parks Board’s embattled chief executive, Alan Gray, dismissed reports on Sunday that a secret R340-million loan scheme using the region’s game parks as collateral was illegal. The scheme was branded as illegal by finance minister Trevor Manuel on Saturday and is being investigated by the Heath special investigative […]

CHRISTIAN FIGENSCHOU, Johannesburg and LEONARD NDZHUKULA, Vaalwater | Monday 3.30pm. FOLLOWING the murders on Saturday of two elderly Cape farmers, a Northern Province farmer’s wife was attacked by four men who stabbed her 16 times at her Vaalwater farmhouse on Sunday evening. Dina Muller (60) told police that four men, including a soft-spoken farm labourer […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10PM. THE magazine and newspaper subsidiary of Naspers Limited, Nasionale Media Limited, has bought the financial journal Finance Week and will merge it with existing publications to form a new financial weekly. Finance Week’s operations will be integrated with those of Nasionale Media’s two financial journals, F&T Weekly and Finansies […]