United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa welcomed three defecting councillors into his camp at a ceremony held at Tsakane on the East Rand on Sunday.

The Independent Newspaper group, owners of the Cape Times, are to appeal a Cape High Court judgment that awarded a Muslim man R100 000 damages for defamation.

Denel on Tuesday unequivocally rejected claims by the South African branch of Economists Allied for Arms Reduction that South Africa manufactures and exports anti-personnel mines.

Although the release of the recommended routes for the ”Gautrain” was well received, uncertainty still existed on how the train would impact upon the residential property market.

The furore surrounding the release of the ministerial committee of inquiry’s report into cricket’s transformation, and Sport and Recreation Minister Ngconde Balfour’s criticism of UCB president Percy Sonn, continued on Friday.

A California doctor who committed suicide after being accused in a murder plot gave deadly germs to apartheid South Africa’s secret chemical and biological weapons programme, US television series ”60 Minutes” reported on Sunday.

There was a campaign to oust former Azanian People’s Liberation Army cadres from the SA national defence Force, the Pan Africanist Congress aid on Sunday.

The Afrikaner think-tank, the Group of 63, have rejected what it called insinuations in newspapers that it had links with rightwing terror groups as ”laughable, mean and slanderous”.

A man was shot and wounded on Wednesday morning when a fight broke out at the scene of an eviction in the Johannesburg city centre.

The University of the Witwatersrand’s Senate voted at a special meeting on Tuesday to support a confidential inquiry into the conduct of Vice-Chancellor Prof Norma Reid Birley.