OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.00PM. LABOUR unions this year managed to negotiate high wage settlement despite a low inflation rate, Johannesburg-based industrial relations and labour law consultancy Andrew Levy and Associates said on Tuesday. Releasing the results of a survey polling 200 companies, the consultancy said that while the inflation rate January to May […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 8.00PM. SOUTH Africa is winning the fight against crime inch by inch, SA Police Service chief executive officer Meyer Kahn said in Cape Town on Wednesday. Speaking at the launch of the Western Cape west metropole’s service and delivery strategy to make best use of the police’s limited must […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 9.30PM. IMPOTENCE drug Viagra will soon be available on prescription in South Africa, the Medicines Control Council announced on Wednesday. The drug, chemically called sildenafil citrate, treats erectile dysfunction. The MCC says the risk of death for those using the drug is unknown. “In some cases the reported clinical […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.30PM. LOCAL shares dropped some of their earlier gains in afternoon trade as investors started to buy futures and sell equities, thereby pressurising the stock market again. According to dealers the JSE closed nervously as traders waited to see whether the US markets will weaken overnight. The all share index […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.45PM. CABINET on Wednesday approved a judicial commission of inquiry that will investigate the possibility of launching a viable system of compensation for victims of road crashes. Announcing the results of a fortnightly Cabinet meeting, Transport Minister Mac Maharaj said a new system will be the most efficient way of […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 9.30AM. OUSTED South African Rugby Football Union president Louis Luyt on Tuesday proclaimed himself as owner of the Springbok emblem, adding that he holds no allegiance to the National Sports Congress. In a characteristically blunt and outspoken address to an extraordinary general meeting of the Sarfu executive, Luyt warned […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Wednesday 6.00PM. THE boss of Kenya’s anti-corruption unit has been suspended by President Daniel arap Moi. Kenya Anti-Corruption Authority director John Harun Mwau was suspended after he tried to pursue senior treasury and tax department officials for alleged corruption. Moi’s office has established a tribunal to investigate “the proper performance” of […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Abuja | Wednesday 3.00PM. NIGERIA’s new military leader, General Abdulsalam Abubakar, has proposed sending the Nigerian-led Ecomog intervention force to intervene in the conflict in Guinea-Bissau. Abubakar said that following a request for intervention from the government of Guinea-Bissau, he asked military chiefs involved in the West African Ecomog military force to draw […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.30PM. AT least 13000 Chemical Workers and Industrial Union members on Wednesday marched though the streets of major cities to present employers with a memorandum detailing their demands for a 10,5% across-the-board wage increase. In Johannesburg an estimated 3000 members marched from Library Gardens in the city centre to Total […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.30PM. APARTHEID chemical and biological weapons supremo Dr Wouter Basson, ordered by a high court to testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Wednesday, has obtained a postponement of his hearing to Thursday as his legal representatives were unable to appear for him at short notice. After granting Basson […]