OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 7.30pm. THE World Bank and other interested parties are planning a damage assessment mission to the battered kingdom of Lesotho, a senior bank official said in Cape Town on Tuesday. Nat Colleta, the manager of the bank’s post-conflict assessment unit, told a conference on the restructuring of conflict-torn societies […]

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 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kampala | Tuesday 7.45pm. A UGANDAN non-governmental organisation worker said on Tuesday that at least 18 street children aged from 14 upwards have been picked up by the Ugandan army in an apparent forced recruitment programme. “For a month, we have been having reports of army trucks coming and recruiting street kids, as […]

OWN CORRESPONDENTS, East London and Johannesburg | Tuesday 9.00pm. AN Eastern Cape amnmesty applicant who took part in Fort Beaufort’s violent political conflict in 1993 faces the next six years in jail after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission rejected his application on Tuesday. The TRC’s amnesty committee, sitting in East London, refused to pardon former […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 8.45pm. A CAR-HIJACKER, convicted of shooting a man dead and seriously injured his female companion in a hijacking in 1983, applied for amnesty on Monday on the grounds that he had been acting with political motive. Saint Mkhululi Manyamalala, 30, told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that he had needed […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.30pm. WHETHER South African Davis Cup captain Danie Visser will continue to head the team remains undecided after Sunday’s crisis meeting between senior SA tennis officials. Two weeks ago, South Africa suffered a major loss in Prague, threatening Visser’s contract. Sources, however, believe that SA tennis leadership is as much […]

FRANCIS XOAGUB, Namibia | Monday 9.30pm. THE Namibian Defence Force on Monday dismissed weekend reports that a consignment of artillery from South Africa destined for its Grootfontein army base is actually in transit to the Democratic Republic of Congo. A Namibian weekly newspaper reported on Saturday that TransNamib trucks hauling lowbeds with G-2 artillery pieces […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 12.30pm. AFRICAN runners swept the board at the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, taking the top three palces in both the men’s and women’s races. Kenyan Ondoro Osoro, running in his first marathon ever, blitzed through the field to finish in two hours, six minutes and 54 seconds, the third-fastest marathon […]