MONDAY, 12.15PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S opening game against Western Australia in Perth ended in a draw on Sunday. Western Australia never showed much interest in chasing a fourth-innings target of 289 in 52 overs. South Africa declared immediately after lunch at 167/3 with Hansie Cronje at 59 not out off 70 balls and Adam Bacher with […]

MONDAY, 5.30PM: CONGOLESE President Laurent Kabila put off a visit to his closest ally, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, on Monday morning, while he struggled to halt clashes between his own soldiers in Kinshasa. The armed clashes began on Thursday, resulting in at least 20 deaths, and have included gunfights inside army barracks and the presidential […]

MONDAY, 11.30PM THE African National Congress Youth League said on Monday that health cannot be a privilege of the wealthy, but has to become a right for all. ANCYL president Malusi Gigaba made the statement in response to the death of Durban kidney patient Thiagraj Soobramoney, 41, who died soon after a Constitutional Court ruling […]

MONDAY, 5.30PM: The all gold index on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange slid even further today after Friday’s rout, losing 18 points to fall to 709. The financial index fell too, shedding 48 points to 10 043. But industrials saved the day however, with the index climbing 45 points to 7 757, to ensure that the […]

MONDAY, 11.30PM: A STATE witness in the treason trial of Zanu-Ndonga leader Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole on Monday presented documents to show that the opposition leader wrote out cheques to Philemon Fernando and William Namakonya, both convicted of attempting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe. Assistant commissioner Zachius Nyathi said he led a team of investigators who […]

MONDAY, 3.30PM GAYE DERBY-LEWIS, wife of the man who planned the murder of ANC leader Chris Hani, says a written admission she made while in detention was forced upon her by police and was untrue. She told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Monday she had changed her statement five times under police pressure, while […]

MONDAY, 11.30PM THE African National Congress on Monday accused the former National Party government of knowing about of the secret burial of African National Congress cadres. The accusation follows the discovery of secret graves in Barberton and Piet Retief in Mpumalanga last week. ANC spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa on Monday said that to date over 160 […]

MONDAY, 10.00PM CYRIL MBATHA, one of two men convicted for the murder of Soweto doctor Abu-Baker Asvat, tried to reconcile the three different version of his story of the killing of Dr Abu-Baker Asvat before the truth commission on Monday. Mbatha claimed his first version of events was contained in his confession used in his […]

FRIDAY, 10.30AM: AFTER three years in the drafting, government on Thursday released new competition policy guidelines that will see a new watchdog body set up to investigate abuses by powerful corporations. Presenting the new policy guidelines to the National Economic Develpment and Labour Council, Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said it is hoped the […]

Nicky Barker The Campaign for St Lucia was reactivated at a meeting in Durban last Sunday, amid fears that Richards Bay Minerals may be reconsidering mining in the area. In the early 1990s, the campaign co- ordinated the largest single petition ever compiled in this country, leading to the scrapping of plans to mine titanium. […]