TUESDAY, 11.30AM: FORMER WBU junior featherweight champion Cassius Baloyi says he was duped by the California State Athletics Comission over the forced postponement of his world tile bout in the United States at the weekend. Baloyi and his trainer, Elias Tshabala, both say that the thought of having been scammed crossed their minds. Baloyi was […]

TUESDAY, 1.00PM: THE falling oil price is cutting the value of South African oil refiners’ operational stockpiles and confronting them with big losses, according to chemical sector analysts. The apparently solid progress towards a peaceful resolution of the Gulf crisis has undermined oil prices, with the price of Brent crude dropping to $14 a barrel. […]

TUESDAY, 6.00PM: THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange has introduced new listing requirements to bring local listing laws in line with the rest of the Southern Africa region in order to attract foreign investment to the local bourse. ZSE Deputy Chief Executive Emmanuel Munyukwi said companies with operations in more than one country will now be able […]

MONDAY, 1.15PM: MAMELODI activist Stanley “Stanza” Bopape was given three electric shocks by police before he died in detention in 1988, according to testimony heard by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Monday. “His head fell forward, and I realised there was something wrong with him,” said former policemen Lieutenant-Colonel Adriaan van Niekerk to the […]

MONDAY, 12.15PM: ZIMBABWEAN Nick Price won the R1,9-million Dimension data Pro-Am by five shots at Sun City on Sunday, successfully defending the title he won last year. Price, who said the course set-up was extremely difficult, shot a 12-under-par 276, five better than fellow Zimbabwean and runner-up Mark McNulty. South African Tjaart van der Walt […]

MONDAY, 12.00NOON: THE government may be forced to revise its tough stance on the fiscal control and budget-deficit targets laid out in its growth, employment and redistribution (Gear) strategy, and find a balance between practising rigid fiscal control and addressing the “social deficit” highlighted by cutbacks in education, health and other social services. Commenting on […]

MONDAY, 1.45PM: NEW Zealand have beaten Zimbabwe by 10 wickets and a day to spare in the first of two Tests in Wellington on Sunday. With Zimbabwe dismissed for 250 runs in their second innings, the New Zealanders needed only 20 runs for victory, and openers Bryan Young and Matthew Horne knocked these off in […]

MONDAY, 10.30AM: FORMER state president PW Botha has pleaded not guilty in the George Regional Court to charges brought against him after defying a subpoena to testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to explain the role of the 1980s State Security Council, which ran the apartheid government’s campaign to contain rebellion by anti-apartheid activists. […]

Robert Kirby LOOSE CANNON If, like so many of us, you are a wide-eyed apprentice democrat, you will have been following the fascinating television edutainment series, presently being mounted “collectively” by the Department of Labour, the SABC and Wits University’s Centre for Applied Legal Studies – or Cals. The series is called Buang: Let’s Talk. […]

David Shapshak Push technology hasn’t had the kind of reception in South Africa that it deserves. An innovative means of disseminating information by “pushing” information to people’s computer desktops has great potential for the advertising world. With this in mind Kagiso Media has updated South Africa’s first push channel, Newzdesk, and are using it to […]