OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.00AM. FORMER International Boxing Federation bantamweight champion Mbulelo Botile was too hot to handle at the Carousel on Tuesday night, forcing Filipino Dino Olivetti to throw in the towel at the beginning of the sixth round. The technical knock-out is another step towards champion status as a fully fledged featherweight […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 8.00PM. SOUTH Africa is winning the fight against crime inch by inch, SA Police Service chief executive officer Meyer Kahn said in Cape Town on Wednesday. Speaking at the launch of the Western Cape west metropole’s service and delivery strategy to make best use of the police’s limited must […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Wednesday 10.00PM. AN elderly couple has been attacked on their farm outside Richmond. Helen and Irvin Taynton, of Sandy River farm, were both stabbed by a man who entered their house on Wednesday afternoon. The attacker escaped with a gun and R20. Neither of the victims was seriously injured. Police have […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.00PM. LABOUR unions this year managed to negotiate high wage settlement despite a low inflation rate, Johannesburg-based industrial relations and labour law consultancy Andrew Levy and Associates said on Tuesday. Releasing the results of a survey polling 200 companies, the consultancy said that while the inflation rate January to May […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.30PM. APARTHEID chemical and biological weapons supremo Dr Wouter Basson, ordered by a high court to testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Wednesday, has obtained a postponement of his hearing to Thursday as his legal representatives were unable to appear for him at short notice. After granting Basson […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Tuesday, 7.00PM THE United Nations observer mission in Angola has opened an investigation into last week’s massacre of 215 people in the north-east village of Mussuku in Lunda-Norte province. The mission has sent police and observers to investigate the killings, which the Angolan government has blamed on Unita rebels. Unita has […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 12.45PM. THE four youths who murdered American exhange student Amy Biehl in 1993 have been granted amnesty in a unanimous decision by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee. Pan Africanist Congress supporters Vusumzi Ntamo, Ntobeko Peni, Easy Mzikhona Nofemela and Mongezi Manqina, who were all aged between 18 and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.00PM. THE justice sytstem fails the majority of South African people, Justice Minister Dullah Omar said on Tuesday, explaining why he supports the concept of community courts. Addressing a seminar in Johannesburg on alternative justice systems, Omar said: “The current justice system does not provide everyone with access to justice […]

Sarah Bullen, Johannesburg | Monday, 7.00PM THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange had a “disastrous” day on Monday, with stock falling across the board and the market losing 1,6% of its value on the day. The market remains on tenterhooks after international credit rating agency Moody’s last week put South Africa on a revolving credit alert, which […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 7.00PM. THE mastermind behind the apartheid government’s chemical and biological weapons programme, Dr Wouter Basson, must testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Cape High court ruled on Monday. South Africa was shocked by revelations in the commission in June of the activities of the programme, which included […]