OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 12.15PM. THE Democratic Republic of Congo government says it has launched counterattacks against Tutsi rebels in the east and south-west of the country. It has vowed to drive “the Rwandans” all the way back to Kigali. Information Minister Didier Mumengi said army loyalists were advancing on rebel positions in the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 3.30PM. DEPUTY President Tabo Mbeki has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of buying time to implement his own programmes rather than working towards peace in the Middle East. Speaking after a meeting with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Cape Town, he said it was surprising that Netanyahu had not […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.00PM. TEMPORARY United nations special envoy to Angola Lakhdar Brahimi has left the country saying that the risk of all-out war had receded. “I have no guarantees,” he told reporters on departure, “but I think there is no longer a risk of all-out war this week or the week after. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 11.00AM. THE management of Sasol Limited’s Middlebult Colliery may be charged with culpable homicide after the Secunda magistrate’s court ruled this week that it could have prevented an underground explosion that killed 53 miners five years ago. The ruling brought an end to one of South Africa’s longest running inquests […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 2.00PM. THE dispute over a new deputy judge president for KwaZulu Natal is likely to flare up again with the nomination of three white candidates and only one black candidate. The Judicial Services Commission is set to release the nominations list for various positions on the judiciary around the country, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Monday 12.15PM. UNITED Democratic Movement national secretary Sifiso Nkabinde has denied that a man arrested during violence in Richmond at the weekend is one of his bodyguards. He conceded, however, that the man, who was arrested for being in possession of 85 rounds of ammunition normally used only by police and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 9.00PM. THE SABC and M-Net have obtained an urgent High Court interdict to prevent Hustler magazine from distributing a pornographic video after nudist Beau Brummel revealed it contained footage of various TV celebrities interviewing him, the Sunday Times reports. Brummel said that segements of footage of Felicia Mabuza-Suttle, Dali Tambo […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 10.00PM. A 19-YEAR-OLD farm worker has been arrested after a dramatic car and helicopter chase and shootout, for the murder of four people on a farm near George in the Cape on Sunday. The attacker had formerly lived and worked on the farm, but was fired by the farmer, […]

ROB DAVIES, Johannesburg | Monday 1.30PM. SOUTH Africa have lost the series-deciding fifth cricket Test against England at Headingley by 23 runs, thereby giving England their first five-Test series win in 12 years. Allan Donald was the first South African wicket to fall in the morning when he was dismissed caught behind by Alec Stewart […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 12.15PM. FOUR people died on the farm Bosrug, near George in the Cape on Sunday when a lone gunman shot them, poured petrol over them and set them alight. The attacker is believed to be former farm employee seeking revenge. He demanded ransom money and held a woman hostage […]