OWN CORRESPONDENT Durban | Thursday 10.00PM. ABOUT 1000 residents have marched on the Richmond police station to demand the re-arrest of United democratic Movement leader and local strongman Sifiso Nkabinde. The marchers also demanded the removal of certain local police from the KwaZulu-Natal midlands town where almost 40 people have died this month. In the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.45PM. CABINET on Wednesday approved a judicial commission of inquiry that will investigate the possibility of launching a viable system of compensation for victims of road crashes. Announcing the results of a fortnightly Cabinet meeting, Transport Minister Mac Maharaj said a new system will be the most efficient way of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Wednesday 6.00PM. THE boss of Kenya’s anti-corruption unit has been suspended by President Daniel arap Moi. Kenya Anti-Corruption Authority director John Harun Mwau was suspended after he tried to pursue senior treasury and tax department officials for alleged corruption. Moi’s office has established a tribunal to investigate “the proper performance” of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Abuja | Wednesday 3.00PM. NIGERIA’s new military leader, General Abdulsalam Abubakar, has proposed sending the Nigerian-led Ecomog intervention force to intervene in the conflict in Guinea-Bissau. Abubakar said that following a request for intervention from the government of Guinea-Bissau, he asked military chiefs involved in the West African Ecomog military force to draw […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.30PM. AT least 13000 Chemical Workers and Industrial Union members on Wednesday marched though the streets of major cities to present employers with a memorandum detailing their demands for a 10,5% across-the-board wage increase. In Johannesburg an estimated 3000 members marched from Library Gardens in the city centre to Total […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Wednesday 10.00PM. AN elderly couple has been attacked on their farm outside Richmond. Helen and Irvin Taynton, of Sandy River farm, were both stabbed by a man who entered their house on Wednesday afternoon. The attacker escaped with a gun and R20. Neither of the victims was seriously injured. Police have […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Wednesday, 7.00PM ANGOLAN Unita rebels took the strategic town of Mussende in the north of the country overnight, according to the Kwanza-Sul provincial government. Mussende, a farming town located at an important crossroads linking Malanje, Kwanza-Norte and Kwanza-Sul provinces, was a stronghold of the rebels backing Jonas Savimbi during the civil […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.30PM. LOCAL shares dropped some of their earlier gains in afternoon trade as investors started to buy futures and sell equities, thereby pressurising the stock market again. According to dealers the JSE closed nervously as traders waited to see whether the US markets will weaken overnight. The all share index […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 9.30AM. OUSTED South African Rugby Football Union president Louis Luyt on Tuesday proclaimed himself as owner of the Springbok emblem, adding that he holds no allegiance to the National Sports Congress. In a characteristically blunt and outspoken address to an extraordinary general meeting of the Sarfu executive, Luyt warned […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.00AM. FORMER International Boxing Federation bantamweight champion Mbulelo Botile was too hot to handle at the Carousel on Tuesday night, forcing Filipino Dino Olivetti to throw in the towel at the beginning of the sixth round. The technical knock-out is another step towards champion status as a fully fledged featherweight […]