Sarah Bullen, Johannesburg | Monday, 7.00PM THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange had a “disastrous” day on Monday, with stock falling across the board and the market losing 1,6% of its value on the day. The market remains on tenterhooks after international credit rating agency Moody’s last week put South Africa on a revolving credit alert, which […]

LEONARD NDZHUKULA, Ermelo | Monday, 6.00PM INKATHA Freedom Party lawyers on Monday demanded the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee chairman, who is presiding over the Ermelo hearings, resign immediately on charges of bias. Advocate Johan Hattingh, who is leading the IFP’s legal council, told the committee that his clients had ordered him to demand […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dakar | Tuesday 5.00PM. A RADIO station controlled by Guinea-Bissau rebels who signed a ceasefire with government forces last weekend, reported on Tuesday that government forces have violated the agreement. The station reported that Senegalese pro-government forces attacked rebel positions near Bafata. The rebels also claimed that government forced blew up a bridge […]

TRISH MURPHY, Pretoria | Tuesday 10.00PM. FORMER state president PW Botha did not directly request unlawful action in making South African Council of Churches headquarters Khotso House “unusable”, former law and order minister Adriaan Vlok testified before the Truth and Reconciliation amnesty hearing on Tuesday. But given the circumstances, he said, there was no other […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday, 6.00PM LAWTERS acting for Western Cape director-general Niel Barnard have served notice on African National Congress provincial leader Ebrahim Rasool that Barnard intends to sue him for defamation. Barnard is believed to be seeking a R20-million settlement from Rasool following the ANC leader’s claims last week that the director-general […]

LEONARD NDZUKULA, East London | Monday 8.00PM. THE Heath special investigation unit has given East London businessman Neil Stuart Kerr until Friday to explain how he spent more than R4,3-million he allegedly received from a justice department cheque theft syndicate. Judge Willem Heath’s unit initially threatened to haul Kerr, a regional manager for Tedelex, before […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Tuesday, 7.00PM THE United Nations observer mission in Angola has opened an investigation into last week’s massacre of 215 people in the north-east village of Mussuku in Lunda-Norte province. The mission has sent police and observers to investigate the killings, which the Angolan government has blamed on Unita rebels. Unita has […]

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 wated to see whether the US markets will weaken overnight. The all share index […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 7.00PM. THE mastermind behind the apartheid government’s chemical and biological weapons programme, Dr Wouter Basson, must testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Cape High court ruled on Monday. South Africa was shocked by revelations in the commission in June of the activities of the programme, which included […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 7.30PM. THE South African Rugby Football Union on Tuesday amended its constitution, despite fervent appeals to the contrary by former Sarfu president Louis Luyt. Luyt called the changes unconstitutional, and said that some of the executive mebers do not have the right to vote. In spite of Luyt’s protestations […]