OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kinshasa | Tuesday 2.30PM DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila returned to Kinshasa on Tuesday from an undisclosed location, a presidential aide said. Kabila’s return to Kinshasa after a 10-day absence coincides with an offensive by government troops backed by Angolan soldiers against rebels in the country’s south-west. After Kabila failed at […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 10.00AM SUPERINTENDENT Andre Edward Lincoln, former chief of the Western Cape’s witness protection programme, appeared in the Cape Town Regional Court on Monday to face 46 charges of fraud, theft and defeating the ends of justice, only to have a drunken driving charge added to the list. Lincoln appeared […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Umtata | Tuesday 9.30pm. A TRUTH and Reconciliation Commission judge in Umtata, Transkei on Tuesday issued a subpoena against former Transkei president Kaizer Matanzima for failing to appear before the TRC’s amnesty committee hearing into the murder of former University of Transkei student Batandwa Ndondo. Ndondo was shot and killed by police in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.00PM ANGOLAN rebel group Unita has said it has interests to defend in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but has stopped short of openly giving support for the insurrection against President Laurent Kabila. The Angolan government, which fought a 20-year civil war against Unita, is providing significant military support for […]
SARAH BULLEN in Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.15pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange remained soft on Tuesday although managing to slow down the aggressive slide of the past two days. Firmer Asian and European markets should have lent a stronger undertone to the battered market with a strong opening for S&P futures adding weight to the more […]
LEONARD NDZHUKULA, Secunda | Tuesday 11.30AM TWO Coin Security guards were rushed to hospital on Tuesday morning after they where wounded while fighting off 12 heavily armed robbers in the third unsuccessful attempted cash-in-transit heist in Mpumalanga over the past two months. The attackers, armed with AK47s and R5 assault rifles, were unable to breach […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 4.30pm. SOUTH African Airway’s newly-appointed chief executive officer Coleman Andrews on Monday described the airline on June 15 this year as in a “very, very fragile” position, in desperate need of a clear and compelling vision of what its future could be. Speaking before the National Assembly’s environment and […]
SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Friday 5.15pm. INVESTORS pulled out of South African markets with a flood on Friday leaving the market to end the week on bear run that eroded most of the week’ earlier gains. Dealers described the day as “utterly dismal” with uncertainty in the currency market and general global market jitters pulling […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Sunday 7.30PM BUOYED by his allies’ weekend military successes against advancing rebels, Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila has rejected Sunday’s Southern African Development Community ceasefire proposal, insisting all Rwandan and Ugandan troops must first withdraw from DRC territory. “What we have said all along is that this rebellion is […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Monday 10.00PM THE leopard that attacked and killed a 25-year-old Kruger National Park ranger, Charles Swart, over the weekend was old and desperately hungry after apparently being forced out of its traditional hunting area by younger challengers, park director David Mabunda said on Monday evening. Preliminary medical examinations indicate that Swart […]