JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Sunday 6.30pm. THE Heath special investigative unit has served legal papers on 12 more Mpumalanga companies, including five major banks, demanding full disclosure on all information relating to the province’s sacked deputy speaker, Cynthia Maropeng. The notices are an attempt to follow a paper trail left by Maropeng when she allegedly […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, George | Monday 1.30PM. THE trial of former president PW Botha for ignoring a Truth and Reconciliation Commission subpoena was on Monday adjourned for judgment this Friday. Before the adjournment in the George Regional Court, Botha’s counsel Lappe Laubscher presented his closing arguments, in which he maintained that the TRC’s subpoena was not […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 6.30PM. SOUTH Africa’s disabled athletes competing in the World Athletics Championships for the Physically Disabled in Birmingham have won 27 medals, including 14 gold, five silver and eight bronze, and set three world records in their incredibly successful stint in England. Hein Seyerling, brother of national sprint champion Heide, broke […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kinshasa | Monday 11.00PM. REBEL forces fighting to topple Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila say they have entered Mbanza-Ngungu, some 130km south of the capital, and are preparing to move on Kinshasa. Rebel commander Jean-Pierre Ondekane said on Monday that the rebels had taken the town of Songololo with a brief […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 7.00PM. THE Natal High Court today gave a landmark judgment in favour of press freedom, dismissing with costs an application by the Inkatha Freedom Party to gag the Mail & Guardian over a report on a scheme to siphon money money from provincial government into party coffers. The party applied […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 12.30PM. CHRISTELLE BOSKER of Gauteng-North bagged a gold medal, and a new world record in the class 38cerebral palsy shot-putt event at the World Athletics Championships for the Physically Disabled in Birmingham on Saturday. Bosker beat the previous record by 80cm to post a new record of 7,96m. Bosker adds […]
SARAH BULLEN in Johannesburg | Friday 6.00pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange rallied on Friday to end a turbulent week in positive territory, taking its cue from Hong Kong’s remarkable rebound to push all indices higher. The day’s spike after the badly battered 33-stock Hang Seng Index regained much of the ground lost this week to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 12.30PM. DEREK CROOKES and Martin van Jaarsveld were the heroes in South Africa A’s seven wicket win over Sri Lanka A in an unofficial limited-overs match played in Moratuwa on Saturday. The win gives South Africa the series with one more match to play. Crookes scored 60 runs in the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Sunday 7.00PM. MASHONALAND West governor Peter Chanetsa at the weekend evicted nearly 900 families from surrounding resettlement schemes who had invaded nine commercial farms in the region, to the west of the Zambabwean capital Harare. Chanetsa said government will not tolerate lawlessness and land-hungry people will be settled following planned procedures, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kinshasa | Sunday 6.30PM. AS European governments flew military aircaft to Kinshasa to evacuate their nationals, a South African Air Force Boeing 707 arrived at Waterkloof air base near Pretoria on Sunday morning carrying more than 100 people, three dogs and a cat from the capital of the embattled Democratic Republic of Congo. […]