TUESDAY, 1.00PM: DESPITE the crime problems in South Africa, a recent survey of the world’s cities found Cape Town and Johannesburg to be the best African cities in which to live, and Brazzaville, Congo, the worst city in the world. The Corporate Resources Group conducted a survey of major world cities, looking at factors like […]

WEDNESDAY, 7.00AM: HOURS after facing Harare’s biggest-ever demonstrations, the Zimbabwe government climbed down on a special levy to raise money for war veterans’ pensions. But other aspects of the tax package remain in place. TUESDAY, 6.00PM: A MASSIVE nationwide strike in Zimbabwe was marred by violence on Tuesday as heavily armed riot police fired tear […]

LARGE PRINT ZULU BIBLE THE Bible Society of South Africa has launched the first large-print Bible to be published in Zulu, the society said in Cape Town on Tuesday. The Bibles were specially produced for Zulu-language speakers with weak eyesight. The society said there is a desperate shortage of large-print literature in the indigenous languages […]

TUESDAY, 3.00PM: A SENIOR official of vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad), Adeeda Roberts, was arrested at dawn on Tuesday after a surprise police raid found a top-secret intelligence document in her home. The document was found by police during a surprise search for weapons and ammunition by police in the early hours […]

MONDAY, 1.00PM: The newly formed Black Managers Forum (BMF) of the South African Police Service has come in for severe criticism from national police commissioner George Fivaz, who labelled it “reverse racism”. The forum was set up by black officers in the police as a lobbying centre against white racism. Fivaz said he had already […]

MONDAY, 4.00PM: FORMER security policeman Gideon Nieuwoudt has won the right to a new panel to hear his application for amnesty for the 1977 death in detention of Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko. Nieuwoudt — already convicted of four murders — has been named repeatedly in Eastern Cape torture cases. He argued on Monday that […]

MONDAY, 1.00PM: ZIMBABWEAN president Robert Mugabe announced on Saturday he will not allow the courts to judge his decision to reclaim white-owned farms. Speaking at a political rally for his ruling party Zanu (PF), Mugabe announced that the move to confiscate nearly 1 500 farms is a “political issue” and not a matter for the […]

MONDAY,5.30PM: THE African National Congress’ Women’s League has chosen to duck the contentious publicity around its support for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s bid for the party’s deputy president post — by refusing to say anything about it. The league announced on Monday that it will wait until after the ANC’s annual conference to issue a media statement […]

MONDAY, 9.00AM: THE US-based Human Rights Watch claims in a report issued on Monday that South African arms are being smuggled to rebels in Burundi. The report names companies with apartheid-era links, and says Spoornet trains are used for the smuggling. The SA government denies knowledge of the smuggling, but says it will investigate. Human […]

Andrew Muchineripi : Boxing South African boxing is on its death bed and the only doctor capable of resuscitating the sick patient is Minister of Sport Steve Tshwete. Matters were brought to the attention of the public, officials and the government with the resignation of the Gauteng Provincial Boxing Commission lawyer Mandla Mbongwe. Mbongwe alleged […]