OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 7.15pm. QWA-QWA Stars thrashed Moroka Swallows 3-0 in a Castle Premier League match at George Goch Stadium in Johannesburg on Thursday. Stars striker Goodman Mazibuko scored a brace in the 63rd and 76th minutes, while captain Sipho Khuse scored the third in the 82nd minute from a cross in the […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.00pm. LOCAL stock enjoyed another strong day on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange as the players turned momentarily away from international developments to the strengthening rand. Dealers, while enjoying the rand’s newfound gains as it rose to R5,95 to the dollar, warn, however, that the gains may be shortlived. Most of […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 9.00pm. KAISER Chiefs left it pretty late but the Amakhosi edged Seven Stars 2-1 in a Castle Premier League match at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town on Thursday. Chiefs held a 1-0 lead for virtually the whole second half, but were shocked by a late goal by Stars to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Freetown | Thursday 9.00pm A MASSIVE build-up of rebel forces has been reported along the Sierra Leone border. General Abu Ahmadu, commander of the west African peacekeeping force, Ecomog, in Sierra Leone, told a security briefing in Freetown that the build-up was a flow-on from events taking place in Liberia, where President Charles […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.30pm NIGERIA’S military ruler, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, left Britain on Wednesday confident that his political reform programme will soon lead to the removal of sanctions against his country by the European Union. The union imposed limited sanctions — including travel restrictions on government officials — in 1995 after late General […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 7.00pm. A SQUAD of South African security policemen were stopped in a roadblock en route to plant a bomb in the African National Congress headquarters in London in 1982. This came to light during the testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty hearing where eight policemen are applying for […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 10.00pm. SPORT and Recreation Minister Steve Tshwete expressed his frustration on Wednesday at a lack of adequate investment in sport in South Africa. Introducing debate on the National Sport and Recreation Bill, he congratulated the country’s Commonwealth Games team, as well as its management and coaches, on a performance […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Wednesday 7.50pm. Mpumalanga’s provincial executive council refused to grill the province’s finance MEC, Jacques Modipane, or other top politicians about their links with ousted parks chief, Alan Gray, for a second time on Wednesday. An earlier scheduled showdown between the executive council and Modipane was cancelled last week after the council […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.00pm. ANGOLA on Wednesday lifted the month-old suspension banning Unita members from its government. Prime Minister Franca Van-Dunem said the decision had been made after consultations between the government and the provisional leadership set up by Unita dissidents who split from hardline leader Jonas Savimbi earlier this month. President Jos […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.00pm. DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo rebels on Wednesday said they killed at least 50 Rwandan Hutu and Mai-Mai fighters when rebel troops attempted to cut the road outside rebel headquarters in Goma. Lunda Bululu, one of rebel leaders, said the road was opened after a two-hour gunbattle, and soldiers on […]