MONDAY, 12.15PM: KAIZER CHIEFS and Mamelodi Sundowns played to a 1-1 draw in the final of the Rothmans Cup at the FNB stadium on Saturday. Both teams had chances but were denied goals by good goalkeeping. It was Chiefs who immediately put pressure in the first half and were unlucky not to have scored a […]

BANDA TAKES IT WITH HIM The late Malawian president Hastings Kamuzu Banda, who died last week aged 99, will take his lavish lifestyle to the grave with a $37 000 coffin. The gold-plated casket, “fit for a former head of state”, comes with a 75-year guarantee. Said diplomat John Chikago: “By guarantee, I mean that […]

MONDAY, 11.30PM THE African National Congress on Monday accused the former National Party government of knowing about of the secret burial of African National Congress cadres. The accusation follows the discovery of secret graves in Barberton and Piet Retief in Mpumalanga last week. ANC spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa on Monday said that to date over 160 […]

MONDAY, 11.30PM: A STATE witness in the treason trial of Zanu-Ndonga leader Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole on Monday presented documents to show that the opposition leader wrote out cheques to Philemon Fernando and William Namakonya, both convicted of attempting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe. Assistant commissioner Zachius Nyathi said he led a team of investigators who […]

MONDAY, 3.30PM GAYE DERBY-LEWIS, wife of the man who planned the murder of ANC leader Chris Hani, says a written admission she made while in detention was forced upon her by police and was untrue. She told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Monday she had changed her statement five times under police pressure, while […]

MONDAY, 10.00PM CYRIL MBATHA, one of two men convicted for the murder of Soweto doctor Abu-Baker Asvat, tried to reconcile the three different version of his story of the killing of Dr Abu-Baker Asvat before the truth commission on Monday. Mbatha claimed his first version of events was contained in his confession used in his […]

MONDAY, 11.30PM THE African National Congress Youth League said on Monday that health cannot be a privilege of the wealthy, but has to become a right for all. ANCYL president Malusi Gigaba made the statement in response to the death of Durban kidney patient Thiagraj Soobramoney, 41, who died soon after a Constitutional Court ruling […]

Intel maintains its dominance of the microchip market by suing companies that compete with it. Tim Jackson tells the story of one of these battles In the mid-1980s, George Hwang decided to start a new business combining his own expertise in process technology and manufacturing with the talents of Bob Woo, a friend with an […]

FRIDAY, 5.30PM: IT was a bad Friday at the JSE, as the disappointing money supply and credit extension figures from the Reserve Bank (see below) helped drive the JSE southwards, and the gold price remained at low levels. The all gold index fell 30 points to 727 — its worst level in14 years. The JSE […]