The wife of one of the assassins of SA Communist Party leader Chris Hani was among several people arrested on Friday morning as part of a country-wide police swoop on alleged rightwingers plotting to topple the government.

When Dingaan Thobela enters the ring in Copenhagen on Friday night, in his fourth consecutive world title fight as a super-middleweight, he will be starting down the aisle of destiny and facing the truth about his future as an active boxer.

As if you hadn’t noticed, the business end of this summer has started to creep ever closer. The weeks, now, will be measured by how much time is left before February 9 when South Africa and the West Indies open the World Cup at Newlands.

They did not deliver the signed agreement that President Thabo Mbeki urged them to produce, but delegates to the Congolese peace talks in Pretoria ratcheted up their process a few notches last weekend and arrived at ”an understanding”.

The Scorpions are actively investigating Deputy President Jacob Zuma for an alleged attempt to secure a bribe of R500 000 a year from French defence giant Thomson-CSF, the Mail & Guardian can reveal.

Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) boss Trevor Abrahams shares a private events management company with his fiancee. The company has tendered for, and benefited from, CAA contracts — as has the fiancee’s brother.

Affordable drugs: Plans for a two-tier system for drug pricing, which will supply cheap medicines to poor countries though they will remain far more expensive for the rich, will be launched this week by the United Kingdom’s International Development Secretary, Clare Short.