OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Thursday 6.00PM. RICHMOND police station in KwaZulu-Natal is to be closed immediately and all its staff relocated. A national intervention unit will be deployed to take over police services in the community, National police Commissioner George Fivaz has announced. Fivaz said normal policing had become impossible in Richmond because of the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.00pm. JUSTICE H. Squires of the Pietermarizburg Supreme Court has reserved judgment on the interdict brought by the Inkatha Freedom Party against the Mail & Guardian. The IFP sought to force the M&G to withdraw last Friday’s paper, which carried the article “How IFP milked KwaZulu-Natal of millions”, and withhold […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Thursday 11.00PM. THE chief bodyguard of KwaZulu-Natal premier Ben Ngubane assisted the Inkatha Freedom Party’s secret Caprivi strike force in attacks on African National Congress strongholds, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission amnesty committe heard on Thursday. IFP member Phillip David Dhlamini, 31, told the hearing that he had operated in the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maseru | Thursday 3.00pm. RENEWED protests in Lesotho on Thursday developed into running gun battles in which nine people were injured. Early on Thursday anti-government protesters blocked the roads in the capital Maseru in order to prevent hundreds of people from going to work. The anti-govenrment protesters were confronted by government loyalists. Police […]

SARAH BULLEN in Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.30pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange went in to a tailspin on Tuesday, losing 5,12% of its value as R1,7-billion volume changed hands — most flooding out of the market. “The selling just did not stop,” a dealer said. By early afternoon the JSE all share index had lost 4,87% […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.30AM. BAFANA Bafana skipper Lucas Radebe was on Tuesday named as the captain of the English Premier League club Leeds United for the 1998/99 season, taking over from Scottish international midfielder David Hopkin. Leeds manager George Graham’s vote of confidence in the 29-year-old defender comes less than two weeks after […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.00AM. SOUTH Africa will return to Headingley to face a Counties Select XI in a limited-overs warm-up match ahead of Friday’s opening triangular shoot-out against Sri Lanka at Trent Bridge. The South Africans will be fielding a near international strength side, with only Allan Donald not making the line-up. His […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 9.00pm. PALESTINIAN leader Yasser Arafat has accused Israel of bringing the Middle East to the brink of “violence, anarchy, war and destruction” and called on the United States, the European Union and the international community to help break the Middle-East deadlock. Adressing a a joint sitting of the South […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Wednesday 10.30pm. KENYAN authorities have arrested a number of people in connection with the devastating car bomb attack on the United States embassy in Nairobi, President Daniel arap Moi said on Wednesday. The announcement followed the declaration by rescue workers that the search for survivors was over. “A number of persons […]