CHRISTIAN FIGENSCHOU, Johannesburg | Thursday 4.00pm. IT emerged in the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday that more than 1000 policemen have been murdered in South Africa since 1994. Meanwhile, the South African Agricultural Union published statistics that show there were more than 2000 attacks on farmers, in which more than 500 farmers were murdered over […]
TRISH MURPHY, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.00PM. A TEAM of United States military personnel is in Rwanda, according to a report confirmed by the Pentagon. The 12 soldiers, part of an “assessment team”, were seen in the vicinity of the Gisenyi border post, which is close to Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Goma was […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 12.15pm. OFFICIALS in the department of mineral and energy affairs on Thursday said they will urge Minerals and Energy Minister Penuell Maduna to ask government to intervene in the four-day-old chemical industry strike. Department Director General Gordon Sibya said: “We believe government has a duty to consider acting as a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 11.00PM. ONE woman has died and another is seriously injured after a bomb exploded at the Salus building in Belleville, near Cape Town on Thursday. The building houses the police special task unit investigating violence associated with the vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs. A Pagad member arrested […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Windhoek | Thursday 9.00pm. ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba has accused Unita rebels in Angola of defying the 1994 peace accords signed in Lusaka in an attempt to end 16 years of civil war. Chiluba appealed to Unita on Wednesday night to support current United Nations mediation to restore peace in the Southern African […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.00AM. THE boys from Highland High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, provided one of the biggest surprises in the finals of the World Schools Rugby championships played in Harare on Tuesday. The American boys, playing for third and fourth spot against Tonga’s Tupou College, beat the boys from the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Thursday 10.00pm. AFRICAN National Congress protesters in KwaZulu Natal are planning to march on the offices of KZN attorney-general Tim McNally and provincial police commissioner Chris Serfontein to demand their resignations. The marches will be part of a programme of mass action by the ANC in KZN to protest against the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 9.40PM. SOUTH Africa’s seamers did the trick on the first day of the series-deciding fifth cricket Test at Headingley, dismissing the home side for 230 runs. English opener Mark Butcher was, in fact, the only English bat who really worried the South Africans, as he played a stirling career-best innings […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.00PM. GENERAL Siphiwe Nyanda, the former MK Transvaal commander and current chief of the SA National Defence Force, was the mastermind behind the 1987 Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court bombing, former MK member Solly Shoke told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee on Wednesday. Four policemen died and 14 other people […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Leeds | Wednesday 11.30AM. THE South African cricket squad on Tuesday thwarted attempts by the English media to turn the series-deciding fifth Test at Headingley into a Donald-bashing party. The South African team refused to talk to the press after net practice on Tuesday, following the comments made by Allan Donald on the […]