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 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 9.15pm. A PARLIAMENTARY report on Tuesday on an investigation into allegations that South African Secret Service members were involved in smuggling Zairean generals and their loot into South Africa last year singularly failed to report any conclusive findings. Instead the document merely recommends tighter border controls. The multi-party committee […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kibla Park | Tuesday 9.30pm. A FORMER Gauteng commander of the Pan Africanist Congress’s armed wing, the Azanian People’s Liberation Army (Apla), told a Truth and Reconciliation Commission amnesty hearing on Tuesday that he ordered the Eikenhof ambush in the Vaal Triangle in March 1993 in which a woman and two children were […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Tuesday 4.30pm. A DATE for bail applications has yet to be set for druglord Rashied Staggie’s bodyguard, Graham Greentree, and Hard Living’s gang co-leader Roland Olince, who were arrested in connection with an arms theft at the police armoury in Faure in the Western Cape in June. Greentree and Olince, together […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maseru | Tuesday 7.00pm. THE Lesotho Parliament cancelled its sitting on Tuesday after a day of protests by opposition party supporters in Maseru. In the morning, army and police intervened when government vehicles were seized by youths and driven to the royal palace in protest against the delay of the release of the […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.30pm. Local stock gained a little ground on a fairly quiet day’s trade on Monday. Dealers said the market had far stronger undertones, largely as a result of an improvement in international markets. Eastern markets picked up following Wall Street’s hike on Friday, with almost every market showing gains. In […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 9.00pm. BOTH windows of a bakkie, in which two People Against Gangsterism and Drugs supporters died, were closed when a bomb exploded in the vehicle, the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court heard on Tuesday. The case follows the death of Pagad supporters Faizel Hendricks, 30, and Nurulla Allie, 33, when a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kisangani | Tuesday 11.00pm. WITH five attempts at peace mediation now failed, the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading to pull in countries throughout the region. Sudan has sent 2,000 soldiers to bolster DRC President Laurent Kabila’s forces in the forward military headquarters of Kindu in eastern DRC, according to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.00pm. CONTROVERSIAL foreign affairs official Robert McBride has accused South African police of deliberately misleading their Mozambican counterparts to ensure he was charged for gun-running, leading to his imprisonment for six months in Maputo. McBride said he has approached the Independent Complaints Directorate to lodge a complaint against the SA […]