OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 10.45pm. THE Natal Sharks will be fired-up for their big Currie Cup rugby match against Western Province at Newlands Saturday with the return of Springbok skipper, number eight Gary Teichmann and midfield bonecrusher Pieter Muller returning to the pack. Teichmann replaced Brad MacLeod-Henderson who played a sterling game last Saturday […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 9.00pm. POLICE on Thursday revealed evidence that crime in Johannesburg is being reduced and the police force becoming more effective. Nationally, the numbers of cash-in-transit heists and bank robberies dropped nearly 50% in the period January to July 1998 from the same period in 1997. Cash heists were down 57,8% […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 7.00pm. THREE Swiss women tourists leaving the Umfolozi game reserve on Wednesday afternoon were attacked and abducted by five men, and two of them gang-raped. According to KwaZulu-Natal police spokesman, the women, travelling in a hired car, were fired upon 200m from the gate of the reserve around 3pm, forcing […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Goma | Thursday 7.00pm. REBELS in the Democratic Republic of Congo who this week captured the strategic eastern town of Kindu, are still ready to negotiate with President Laurent Kabila, a spokesman said on Thursday. The rebels’ position on negotiations “has not changed” after their victory in Kindu, said Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.00pm. SOUTH African markets bucked an negative day on international markets to end firmer across the board as a long-awaited cut in the repo rate fuelled expectations that an interest rate cut is imminent. Dealers said that although the 25 basis point fall in the repo rate was only a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 7.30pm. A MEMBER of the group responsible for the Bronkhorstspruit cash-in-transit heist in July last year was given R50000 of the spoils, even though he did not take part in the robbery itself, the Pretoria High Court heard on Thursday. Jerry Mashigo, who has turned state witness, said that while […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.30am. ITCHINESS for a rates cut from Reserve Bank governor Chris Stals is beginning to increase, now that liquidity in the money market has improved and the rand gained in strength. The repo rate has now been stuck at 21,855% since the beginning of September, due to the Bank’s policy […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.15am. SOUTH Africa’s Amanda Coetzer, ranked 13th in women’s world tennis, adavanced to the second round of the European Championships in Zurich on Tuesday when she beat Natascha Zvereva of Belarus 7-5, 6-4 in the first round. Coetzer and her opponent traded serves twice in the first set before the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 7.45pm. TWO Durban High Court judges on Wednesday said that they made a mistake in co-signing a letter earlier in the year opposing the nomination of Judge Vuka Tshabalala as Natal’s Deputy Judge President. Speaking at Judicial Services Commission in Pretoria, Judge Brian Galgut and Judge Jan Hugo said they […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Wednesday 7.00pm. A PAIR of Tanzanian Siamese twins, joined in an extremely rare manner, arrived in Cape Town on Tuesday where they will be separated at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital. The twins, eight-month-old girls named only as Helen and Agnes, are joined at the pelvis. The twins, however, are facing […]