OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.00am. TRANSNET has been cross-subsidising some of its business units, using its profitable companies to subsidise its loss making one, the transport department’s Moving South Africa study suggests. The transport parastatal has long denied crossfunding, despite widespread speculation within the sector that it is a common practice by Transnet. The […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kisangani | Wednesday 11.00pm. REBELS occupying the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Kisangani are striking north and aiming for the strategic town of Buta after overrunning Banalia, 100km north of Kisangani, their military commander said on Wednesday. Commander Jean-Pierre Ondekane said that Banalia had been under rebel control for some time, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maseru | Wednesday 11.30pm. DEPUTY President Thabo Mbeki has told a Lesotho government delegation that the findings of the Langa commission of inquiry into electoral fraud in the mountain kingdom will not be made public until the Southern African Development Community meeting in Mauritius on Sunday. He gave the same response to Lesotho […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Wednesday 11.30pm. SEVENTY MPs belonging to Angola’s rebel Unita movement who were dismissed from parliament last week have refused to joint the breakaway faction which has established itself as the movement’s alternative leadership. Five ministers, also dismissed for being Unita members, last week denounced leader Jonas Savimbi and set up a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kuala Lumpur | Tuesday 11.00pm. THE Commonwealth Games general assembly decided on Tuesday to limit the number of participating sports in future meetings to 14. The limit has been forced on officials as they struggle to compete against an ever growing international sports calendar. Other changes decided at the federation’s general assembly include […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nelspruit | Tuesday 9.15pm. MPUMALANGA’s provincial finance MEC Jacques Modipane on Tuesday said that it is highly probable that Mpumalanga’s Parks Board chief Alan Gray forged his signature on the back of three illegal promissory notes. The notes offer some of South Africa’s prize national parks up as collateral for an illegal R340-million […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pietermaritzburg | Wednesday 9.00pm. AN executive member of the Mpumalanga Taxi Association told the Pietermaritzburg magistrate’s court on Wednesday that he is uanaware of any taxi-related violence. Delani Mncube, charged with murder, was appearing at his bail applictaion. He conceded that he knew five taxi operators, including former MTA chairman Kusakusa Paul Mthetwa, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 9.15am. FORMER Springbok and Griqualand West rugby coach Andre Markgraaff will quit as coach of Griquas at the end of the year, and may take over the coaching position of the Golden Cats Super-12 team. Markgraaff was recently appointed managing director of Supersport Rugby Holdings, comprising Griquas, Boland Cavaliers and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Tuesday 10.00pm. KENYA on Tuesday deregistered six international Islamic non-governmental organisations as a direct result of the August bombing of the United States embassy in the capital, Nairobi in which 240 people died and 5000 were injured. Announcing the decision, government-appointed NGO Co-ordination Board chairman John Etemesi warned that the board […]