ROB DAVIES, Johannesburg | Monday 1.30PM. SOUTH Africa have lost the series-deciding fifth cricket Test against England at Headingley by 23 runs, thereby giving England their first five-Test series win in 12 years. Allan Donald was the first South African wicket to fall in the morning when he was dismissed caught behind by Alec Stewart […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 12.15PM. THH embattled Democratic Republic of Congo leader, Laurent Kabila, has claimed that Ugandan troops and tanks have invaded the east of his country. Kabila has repeated his threats against Rwanda, saying Rwandan Tutsis, backed by Congolese Tutsis and now Ugandans, are seeking to carve a “Tutsi empire” from eastern […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT Johannesburg | Sunday 5.00PM. THE Natal Sharks squandered a huge possessional advantage in their Currie Cup match against the Golden Lions at Ellis Park on Saturday, playing out to a 11-10 loss. The Sharks had the advantage in all aspects of the game, but lost the ball on numerous occasions through handling errors […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 9.00PM. DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila has vowed to push the conflict in his country into Rwanda. In what amounts to a declaration of war, Kabila said on Thursday: “The war will be taken to where it came from [Rwanda]. We will defend ourselves. The Rwandans will not […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 9.30PM. CHEMICAL Workers’ Industrial Union leaders and employers in the petroleum industry will meet on Friday in an attempt to end the nationwide strike by 47000 CWIU members. The CWIU said on Thursday it has communicated its readiness to meet employers for negotiations with the employers’ national co-ordinator, Fanie Ernst. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 6.00PM. LOCAL industrial and all-share market movers were at the forefront of the overall market’s fall today on the back of futures-related and foreign selling. The all share index fell 58,6 points to end trade on 6721,8, while the industrial index dropped 66,0 points to close on 7816,9. The financial […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 3.00PM. South Africa were in a spot of bother on the third day of the series deciding fifth Test against England at Headingley on Saturday, as the English bats tightened their grip on the match. Allan Donald started the day well, dismissing Mike Atherton for a single run, but the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday 9.00PM. ONE hundred and eight people are now confirmed dead and some 4000 estimated injured in the bomb blast which devastated the United States Embassy and flattened a neighbouring building in Nairobi, Kenya, on Friday morning. Rescue workers say that 154 people have been reported missing, and expect the death […]

Sechaba ka’Nkosi Remember Musa Myeni? He was the Inkatha Freedom Party firebrand who once threatened to unleash 150 000 Zulu impis on Gauteng to deal with township residents. That was during the violence in the early 1990s between IFP-aligned hostel dwellers and youths on the Reef. Seven years later, he has substituted his political ideology […]

Bobby Peek The survival of the constitutional right to a healthy environment depends on the outcome of an unprecedented battle raging through almost every ministry and department of the government. The executive branch is debating the fate of the draft National Environmental Management Bill. Will the Bill vindicate the constitutional right to “an environment that […]