OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kuala Lumpur | Thursday 8.30pm. SOUTH Africa will play a confident Australia in the cricket final at the Commonwealth Games, after the Australian team disposed of New Zealand in a crushing defeat in the semi-final on Thursday. Steve Waugh’s Australians warmed up for Saturday’s final with an emphatic nine-wicket win that was completed […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 4.00pm. DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila on Wednesday said he wants to hold elections in the country in April 1999 , but first must “boot out” invading troops. “We want to go to elections. It was set for April. For that we will have to boot the aggressor […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.00pm. THE Democratic Republic of Congo government has denied that Sudanese troops have arrived in the forward military base of Kindu to assist forces loyal to President Laurent Kabila. The DRC rebels fighting to topple Kabila claimed on Wednesday that Libya bankrolled the deployment of some 2,000 Sudanese and ex-Zairean […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.30pm. LOCAL stock rocketed on Wednesday morning as relief over global gains and a massive rally by Latin American markets spilled over into the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. By midday the all share index had gained 2,46%, led up by a 4,32% rise in the financial index and a 3,47% gain […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Tuesday 10.00pm. NATAL hooker Chris Rossouw has been cleared of a charge of throwing a punch at Free State hooker Naka Drotske during last week’s Currie Cup game in Bloemfontein. He will now be free to play for the team in the Bankfin Currie Cup rugby match against Boland at […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maseru | Wednesday 11.30am. SOUTH Africa’s announcement that the Langa Commission report on alleged electoral fraud in Lesotho will be released on Thursday has been met with threats that the report will be rejected by Lesotho opposition parties. Frank Chikane, secretary-general in the office of the deputy president, announced Johannesburg on Wednesday evening […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kuala Lumpur | Tuesday 10.00pm. DEAF Durbanite Terence Parkin sliced more than two seconds off his national record, but just missed a Commonwealth medal, in the men’s 200m breaststroke in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday night. Julia Russell finished fourth in the women’s 100m breaststroke in a time of 1min 10,47 seconds. Parkin clocked […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday 8.30pm. ZIMBABWE has said it will maintain its force in the Democratic Republic of Congo until there is “irreversible” peace there. Addressing Parliament the Zimbabwean defence minister, Moven Mahachi, faced a mass of criticism from MPs dissatisfied with Zimbabwe’s military intervention in the DRC. According to local reports, MPs said […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 8.30pm. MOZAMBICAN attorney-general Antonio Namburete said on Wednesday that more arrests could follow in connection with the gun-running and espionage charges levelled against foreign affairs official Robert McBride. Namburete spoke in Pretoria, after addressing a crime conference, saying the case against McBride must still be solved: “The suspects still have […]