OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dakar | Monday 8.30PM. GOVERNMENT and rebel soldiers in Guinea-Bissau on Monday signed an accord aboard a Portuguese warship anchored in the port of Bissau to observe an immediate ceasefire. The ceasefire agreement is the result of mediation by six fellow Portuguese-speaking countries. The accord calls for formal negotiations to start within eight […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 7.30PM. THE trial of Brigadier Jack Cronje and Captain Jacques Hechter was provisionally removed from the roll of the Pretoria High Court pending the outcome of an amnesty application before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The former security policemen are part of a group of five who gave evidence before […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Swakopmund | Monday, 9.30PM NAMIBIAN President Sam Nujoma on Sunday night called on Southern African leaders to cultivate smart partnerships crucial for the region’s economic development. Nujoma was speaking at a banquet for Southern African Development Community heads of state who are attending the second three-day Southern African International Dialogue (Said) in the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.45PM. FORMER Nigerian senator Polycarp Nwite — jailed last year by the late military ruler General Sani Abacha — was released on Monday. Nwite’s release comes after a general amnesty was granted to political detainees by the new ruler, General Abdulsalam Abubakar, last week. Nwite, who sat as chairman of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 5.40PM. FORMER English skipper Mike Atherton hit 98 unbeaten runs to take England to an eight wicket victory against South Africa on the final day of the fourth Test at Trent Bridge. Midaway through the afternoon session Atherton hit the winning runs off Shaun Pollock to level the series at […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Friday, noon A NEW publishing consortium, including Independent Newspapers, plans to launch various titles in Zimbabwe to compete with the parastatal Newspaper Group and Zimbabwe Newspapers. Weekly local papers are planned for all major cities, as is the resurrection of the Daily News, banned in 1964 by Ian Smith’s white government. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Sunday. 1.00PM. THE 1998 Currie Cup season seems intent on producing upsets and surprises with every match, and even relatively small sides are staking their claim to the trophy. The Golden Lions’ competition woes continue after they were beaten 19-17 by the MTN Falcons at the Bosman stadium in Brakpan […]
Charl Blignaut On stage in Johannesburg In the year 2013 AD, planet earth will witness that old nuclear havoc: the final, inevitable, apocalyptic spectacle of destruction. A blinding flash, pandemonium, rancid corpses twisting with the hot breeze . But all will not be lost. No siree. Because way above the messy implosion there rests a […]
Nick Varley CD of the week Way back, when The Smiths were emerging as the greatest English talent of the Eighties, they took another Manchester indie band out as support on tour. Now, 13 years later, all those who have come across James in a subsequent incarnation – from much-lauded indie kids to derided, alleged […]
Wally Mbhele The head of a KwaZulu-Natal prison who was recently suspended after his alleged involvement in the death of a prisoner is back at work. Minister of Correctional Services Sipho Mzimela promised an inquiry into the actions of Sipho Dlamini, head of the Ingwavuma prison. Prisoners claim they were not informed that the inquiry […]