LEONARD NDZUKULA, East London | Monday 8.00PM. THE Heath special investigation unit has given East London businessman Neil Stuart Kerr until Friday to explain how he spent more than R4,3-million he allegedly received from a justice department cheque theft syndicate. Judge Willem Heath’s unit initially threatened to haul Kerr, a regional manager for Tedelex, before […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 7.00PM. THE mastermind behind the apartheid government’s chemical and biological weapons programme, Dr Wouter Basson, must testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Cape High court ruled on Monday. South Africa was shocked by revelations in the commission in June of the activities of the programme, which included […]

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 wated to see whether the US markets will weaken overnight. The all share index […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 7.30PM. THE South African Rugby Football Union on Tuesday amended its constitution, despite fervent appeals to the contrary by former Sarfu president Louis Luyt. Luyt called the changes unconstitutional, and said that some of the executive mebers do not have the right to vote. In spite of Luyt’s protestations […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00PM. GAUTENG housing department head Mogopodi Mokoena, reacting to calls by the National and Democratic parties to a probe into the into the awarding of a R412,5 million subsidised housing project, said that the proper procedures were followed in giving the project to a developer with links to the Provincial […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 12.45PM. THE four youths who murdered American exhange student Amy Biehl in 1993 have been granted amnesty in a unanimous decision by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee. Pan Africanist Congress supporters Vusumzi Ntamo, Ntobeko Peni, Easy Mzikhona Nofemela and Mongezi Manqina, who were all aged between 18 and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.00PM. THE justice sytstem fails the majority of South African people, Justice Minister Dullah Omar said on Tuesday, explaining why he supports the concept of community courts. Addressing a seminar in Johannesburg on alternative justice systems, Omar said: “The current justice system does not provide everyone with access to justice […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Tuesday, 7.00PM THE United Nations observer mission in Angola has opened an investigation into last week’s massacre of 215 people in the north-east village of Mussuku in Lunda-Norte province. The mission has sent police and observers to investigate the killings, which the Angolan government has blamed on Unita rebels. Unita has […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday, 6.00PM LAWTERS acting for Western Cape director-general Niel Barnard have served notice on African National Congress provincial leader Ebrahim Rasool that Barnard intends to sue him for defamation. Barnard is believed to be seeking a R20-million settlement from Rasool following the ANC leader’s claims last week that the director-general […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Tuesday 6.30PM. A FORMER agent of the Civil Co-operation Bureau and a boat skipper appeared in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday in connection with last month’s huge arms cache founds at Redhouse outside the city. The former agent, Cassie Kruger, and skipper Willie Hennop were arrested on Monday […]