OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pietermaritzburg | Tuesday 5.30pm. THE touring West Indies have drawn their four day match against South Africa “A” at the Pietermaritzburg Oval on Tuesday. The Windies were pushed along to 95/3 with a quick second-wicket partnership of 62 off just 80 balls before bad light stopped play as on the previous days. All […]

SOUTH AFRICAN road deaths totalled 455 on Wednesday from December 1, according to Johann Kilian of Arrive Alive. The toll stands at 151 drivers, 167 passengers and 137 pedestrians. The season has brought 313 fatal accidents. Most of the road deaths were reported in KwaZulu-Natal, with 90, followed by 67 in Gauteng, 59 in the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Tuesday 5.45pm. UNITA rebels in Angola were on Tuesday shelling the strategic town of Kuito, in the central Bie province, where several dead and wounded were reported. Shelling continued late into the morning. Numerous people were wounded when the Sao Jose de Clunny secondary school was hit, while bodies lay on […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, The Hague | Tuesday 12.00pm. THE Libyan suspects in the Lockerbie bombing case will only face trial in an “international court,” Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi said in an interview with Dutch television broadcast on Monday. This means a trial by Scottish judges is out of the question. “An international court is the solution, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, | day 11.00m. SIERRA Leonean rebels launched an attack some 30km from the capital on Tuesday, the commander of the Nigerian-led intervention force, Ecomog, reported. General Timothy Shelpidi said the attack took place in Waterloo, which lies at a strategic junction linking the Freetown peninsula to the country’s interior. In a radio broadcast, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Friday 8.00pm. THE South African Footplate Staff Association, a traditional bastion of white workers, announced on Friday that it has merged with black trade union the Democratic Labour Union of South Africa. The new union which represents Transnet workers will take Safsa’s name, secretary-general of the merged union Chris de Vos […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 2.00pm. THE Pan Africanist Congress is to dissolve its military wing, the Azanian People’s Liberation Army. SABC television reported on Saturday that the party decided at a pre-election congress in Johannesburg on Saturday that the Apla, which suspended its armed struggle in 1994, will be formally dissolved next year. It […]

OWN CORRESPONDENTS, Cairo | Sunday 1.30pm. PROTESTS gatherings against the United States and British air attacks on Iraq were held in Libya and Morocco on Sunday. More than 10000 Libyans gathered in Tripoli’s central Green Square on Sunday to show solidarity with Iraq, brandishing green flags and portraits of Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi, who was […]

David Shapshak Spending It In science fiction, functional technology has long been integrated into mainstream culture as fashion. Technology has often been reinvented as fashion, witness what Bang & Olafsson have done for the dour hi-fi or Apple’s iMac for the home personal computer. The cellphone, that once distinctive sign of a yuppie, is going […]