OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kampala | Wednesday 4.45pm. TRUCKS full of Ugandan troops were spotted heading for the Democratic Republic of Congo border on Sunday and Monday night, reports in Kampala said on Wednesday. The troops were thought to be on their way to back rebels fighting to overthrow DRC President Laurent Kabila. Reports described eight to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.45pm. A BI-NATIONAL consortium of South African and Swazi construction companies, led by Grinaker and Wilson Bayley Homes, was on Wednesday awarded a R342,4-million contract to construct the Magugu Dam in Swaziland. Magugu is the second of seven planned dams on the Komati and Lomati rivers in Swaziland and Mpumalanga […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.00PM THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released documents which point to the involvement of the former South African government in the mysterious 1961 death of United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. TRC head of investigations Dumisa Ntsebeza said he acquired the documents while investigating another matter. He said they have […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.00PM. THE Transport and General Workers’ Union and the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union are planning industrial action to protest against a “secret payroll” of the Airports Company of SA’s management. Nehawu spokesman Allistair Charles said the dispute extended to the failure of the comapny to resolve wage […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Wednesday 10.30AM. INVESTIGATORS from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday raided a downtown Nairobi hotel, where the massive bomb that blew up the American embassy two weeks ago is believed to have been assembled. The Daily Nation reports that Mohammed Saddiq Howaida (also known as Mohammed Saddiq Odeh), […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT in Johannesburg | Monday 4.30pm. POST and Telecommunications Minister Jay Naidoo on Monday expressed concern at the slow response of small and medium-sized businesses (SMMEs) in addressing the Millenium Bug, warning that, should the Year 2000 problem not be addressed in a holistic way, “society as we know it could disintegrate”. Qualifying his […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kimberly | Tuesday 10.30PM. THE trial of right-wing extremist Willem Ratte and 10 co-accused, which opened in Kimberly on Monday, moved to the Pomfret infantry base in the Northern Cape on Tuesday for an inspection of the site where the men allegedly tried to steal weapons. The 11 accused are charged with trying […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kinshasa | Tuesday 11.00PM. PRESIDENT Laurent Kabila has again fled the captital of Democratic Republic of Congo, this time taking some of his ministers with him after raiding the central bank, rebels fighting to depose him have claimed. Bizima Karaha, Kabila’s former foreign minister who has defected to the rebels, said that Kabila […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cairo | Tuesday 10.30pm. SUDANESE opposition leaders on Tuesday rejected Sudan’s new constitution, based on Islamic law, saying they plan to continue to fight for democracy. The Sudanese opposition is largely based in the Christian, animist south of the huge country, a region which has long resisted what it perceives to be enforced […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Birmingham | Tuesday 3.45pm. DARYLL CULLINAN and Pat Symcox have given South Africa hope of playing in the final of the Emirates triangular series against Sri Lanka after brilliant knocks against England at Edgbaston on Tuesday, taking the South African score to 243/7 after 50 overs. Apart from Cullinan and Symcox, the South […]