OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Tuesday, 9.30PM. THE Angolan rebel movement Unita has called its exclusion from the Angolan government a “setback for peace”. Late on Monday the government and parliament simultaneously announced the suspension of four ministers and seven deputy ministers as well as 70 parliamentary deputies. The ruling MPLA in Luanda said the move […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN and LEONARD NDZHUKULA, Nelspruit | Wednesday 10.00PM. MPUMALANGA’S legislature ordered police to arrest the province’s former head of environmental affairs, Jabu Mahlongo, on Wednesday after he ignored a summons to testify before its portfolio committee on public accounts. The order is the toughest disciplinary ruling yet against individuals who ignore subpoenas to testify […]

SARAH BULLEN in Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.45am. SOUTH Africa’s burgeoning rate of private-sector credit extension showed no signs of abating in July, rising an annualised 17,6% from 16% in June, despite restrictive interest rates which should have inhibited credit demand. The baffling rise in credit extension is being explained by some economists as pre-emptive buying […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 10.30am. POLICE on Wednesday said the bomb that blew up the Planet Hollywood restaurant at Cape Town’s Waterfront displayed several similar features to pipe bombs detonated at the offices of the police special task team in Bellville and the Mowbray police station earlier this year. One person was killed […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Arusha | Wednesday 7.00PM. THE United Nations war crimes tribunal for Rwanda has become the first international court to hand down a conviction for genocide, using legislation originating 50 years ago. The court has also defined rape as an act of genocide when women are assaulted because they are members of a targeted […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday, 9.00PM. A BILL which aims to give natural fathers the right to participate in deciding whether a child born out of wedlock can be given up for adoption has received the support of all parties in Parliament. The Adoption Matters Amendment Bill is not so much about equality between […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Tuesday, 8.00PM. THE Zimbabwe government is about to declare it no longer has any interest in white-owned farms, Zimbabwe’s Agriculture Minister, Kumbirai Kangai, said on Tuesday. In his annual policy statement for the coming agricultural year, Kangai said he expected 1500 properties listed in November last year for confiscation to be […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Tuesday 11.30PM. SOUTH Africa has urged nations of the Non-Aligned Movement to pass anti-mercenary laws in a bid to outlaw international mercenaries from operating within and from member countries. The proposal is contained in an amendment to a draft resolution on mercenaries to be debated by foreign ministers on Tuesday, ahead […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday, 10.00PM. ALLAN Boesak’s former accountant stole money from his boss and falsely attributed irregular transactions to him, the Cape Town High Court heard on Monday. Freddie Steenkamp, the bookkeeper for Boesak’s Foundation for Peace and Justice, has already been convicted on counts of fraud and theft and is serving […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 9.30am. SPRINGBOK and Mpumalanga Pumas scrumhalf Dan van Zyl is hoping for a recall into the Springbok rugby side after signing a contract to play for Western Province on Monday. Van Zyl toured Europe with the Springboks last year, but has fallen out of favour with national coach Nick Mallett […]