OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 11.00pm. THIRTY-ONE people were involved in the careful planning which led to the R17,4 million Bronkhorstspruit cash-in-transit heist last July, the Pretoria High Court heard on Wednesday. Jerry Mashigo told the court he had known two of the accused, Dennis Nqobezi and Thabo Stimela, for about a year. He met […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.15pm. OPPOSITION-allied Swaziland Solidarity Network on Wednesday asked for South Africa to mediate the rising tension in Swaziland ahead of Friday’s parliamentary vote, amid rumours of human rights violations by Swazi troops and a crackdown on opposition leaders. Earlier on Wednesday the People’s United Democratic Movement (Pudemo), Swazi’s strongest opposition […]

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, Lagos | Wednesday 10.00pm. NIGERIAN Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka arrived back in Nigeria on Wednesday to a tumultuous welcome, greeted by thousands of friends supporters as he ended almost four years in exile. Soyinka, the most prominent critic of the late dictator General Sani Abacha, flew into Lagos from London. Thousands turned out […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 10.00pm. THE mothers of two girls who went missing 10 years ago have requested the son of the alleged murderer be subjected to narco-analysis, a form of deep hypnosis, to try to establish the truth of what happened. Flippie van Rooyen, the son of paedophile Gert van Rooyen, is standing […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Wednesday 12.15pm. THE reformist Nigerian military government of General Abdulsalami Abubakar is searching hard for billions of dollars in public monies stolen by cronies of former ruler General Sani Abacha. Information Minister John Nwodo says the government is busy seeking the assistance of the countries in which the money is being […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday 9.30pm. ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe, who returned home from the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, has vowed to continue supporting the DRC’s embattled President Laurent Kabila. The meeting between Mugabe and Kabila in Kabila’s southern stronghold, Lubumbashi, took place hours after the Tutsi-led rebels captured the town of Kindu, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 12.30pm. INLAND teams were generally more successful in BobSave Super Bowl weekend premiliminary round matches, while most coastal sides turned belly up. Spareco Black Leopards worked hard against Matsena Giant Killers at Ga-Kgapane stadium, but eventually triumphed 4-1 on penalties after a no-goal game. In Pietersburg, Ria Stars pulled off […]

President Nelson Mandela said in Durban on Tuesday that he is optimistic a solution will be reached to end the policital crisis in Lesotho.

MIKE METELITS, Johannesburg | Monday 6.30pm. Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) plans to drop Malaysia from its Emerging Markets Free Index on November 30. The move will increase the weighting of other emerging markets in the index’s calculations. South Africa has the second largest weighting in the index at 11,8%, and this will increase to […]