OWN CORRESPONDENT in Kimberly | Wednesday 10.00pm. RIGHTWING activist Willem Ratte and 10 accomplices were planning to “take over the government” using anti-tank weaponry, RPG7 rocket launchers and mortars they tried to steal from the Pomfret military base in 1997, the Kimberley Regional Court heard on Wednesday. In his testimony, base commander Colonel Daan van […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.30PM. PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela’s office on Wednesday said that an apology from Mineral and Energy Affairs Minister Penuell Maduna to Parliament for breaking the House’s rules by making inappropriate suggestions during a question session should be sufficient, presidential aide Parks Mankahlana said. A multi-party parliamentary committee on Tuesday found Maduna […]
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, 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 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Mafikeng | Monday 10.00PM. ARGUMENT in mitigation of sentence in the trial of former Bophuthatswana president Lucas Mangope started in the Mafikeng High Court on Monday. SABC television news reported that sentencing was expected this week. Mangope has been found guilty on 102 counts of theft involving R3,5 million, including mining royalties paid […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 10.00PM. STRIKING chemical workers may be back at work later this week, following agreements in principle between unions and employers in most of the industry’s seven sectors. According to Commission for Conciliaton, Arbitration and Mediation senior commissioner Kaizer Thibedi, settlement is near, but representatives must now get final approval from […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kampala | Tuesday 10.30PM. FORTY Ugandan volunteers will try a French-manufactured AIDS vaccine when trials start in Kampala, Ugandan Health Minister Crispus Kiyonga announced on Tuesday. Kiyonga told the Ugandan parliament that the vaccine was already in the country and that his ministry had received permission to start the trials from the National […]
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 […]