OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Tuesday 5.45pm. UNITA rebels in Angola were on Tuesday shelling the strategic town of Kuito, in the central Bie province, where several dead and wounded were reported. Shelling continued late into the morning. Numerous people were wounded when the Sao Jose de Clunny secondary school was hit, while bodies lay on […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, The Hague | Tuesday 12.00pm. THE Libyan suspects in the Lockerbie bombing case will only face trial in an “international court,” Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi said in an interview with Dutch television broadcast on Monday. This means a trial by Scottish judges is out of the question. “An international court is the solution, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Friday 8.00pm. THE South African Footplate Staff Association, a traditional bastion of white workers, announced on Friday that it has merged with black trade union the Democratic Labour Union of South Africa. The new union which represents Transnet workers will take Safsa’s name, secretary-general of the merged union Chris de Vos […]

OWN CORRESPONDENTS, Cairo | Sunday 1.30pm. PROTESTS gatherings against the United States and British air attacks on Iraq were held in Libya and Morocco on Sunday. More than 10000 Libyans gathered in Tripoli’s central Green Square on Sunday to show solidarity with Iraq, brandishing green flags and portraits of Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi, who was […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 2.00pm. THE Pan Africanist Congress is to dissolve its military wing, the Azanian People’s Liberation Army. SABC television reported on Saturday that the party decided at a pre-election congress in Johannesburg on Saturday that the Apla, which suspended its armed struggle in 1994, will be formally dissolved next year. It […]

axe Mungo Soggot and David Shapshak Wits University axed Ron Clarke, the palaeoanthropologist responsible for last week’s sensational fossil find in Sterkfontein, despite receiving several written pleas from eminent international scientists to keep him on. Three top fossil academics based in the United States have confirmed they attempted to persuade the university to reconsider its […]

for that `good feeling’ Peter Makurube In her neighbourhood, even a child can lead you to Margaret Singana’s home. The singer once known as Lady Africa has not been on stage in a long while, but the people of Zola still treat her with the deference of old. When disaster struck, Margaret Singana was at […]

For organised crime in Asian betting scams, read artistocratic mega-punters in English sport 250 years ago. Gambling scandals are nothing new – especially in cricket, write Kevin Mitchell and Luke Tansey Any suspicion that there is a mole in the England cricket team leaking confidential information of varying quality and relevance to an illegal bookmaker […]

An exhibition full of evocative images shows Africa as seen by African photographers, reports Alex Dodd >From its earliest days photography has been a dangerous medium. Since its inception last century, photographic images of Africa have mainly served to bolster Western perceptions of this continent as a messy tangle of jungle, starvation, exoticism, ignorance, weakness […]

Andrew Worsdale The Great Escape, a fascinating documentary airing on SABC1 at 6.30pm on Sunday December 20, tells the story of the famous Marshall Square jailbreak in 1963 where activists Arthur Goldreich, Mosie Moolla, Charlie Jasset and Harold Wolpe managed to persuade warder Johan Greef to let them out with the promise of payment. Greef […]