WEDNESDAY 6.30PM: THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission special hearings on the role of business during apartheid continued on Wednesday with corporations and business groups denying they benefited from apartheid, while claiming to have attempted to fight against the social system that was declared a crime against humanity by the United Nations General Assembly. Rembrandt Group […]

WEDNESDAY, 11.45AM: THE South African cricket selectors have included one uncapped player in the squad for the tour of Australia. Boland’s Roger Telemachus was included and Herschelle Gibbs has been re-called. Out go Fanie de Villiers and Andrew Hudson. De Villiers, who had a good tour in Pakistan, was once again overlooked. Convenor of selection […]

WEDNESDAY, 11.25AM: NATAL cricket selection convenor Graeme Ford has named three Proteas in the squad to play against Northerns at Kingsmead from Friday. Jonty Rhodes, Andrew Hudson and Shaun Pollock are in the team while Pat Symcox and Lance Klusener are not available. Meanwhile, Free State will be without Alan Donald and Hansie Cronje in […]

NO DNA TEST FOR CHILUBA ZAMBIA’s High Court on Tuesday dismissed an opposition petition to order President Frederick Chiluba to undergo a DNA test to determine whether his is really Zambian-born. The opposition claims that Chiluba was not rightfully elected as president, saying he was born of a father, 74-year-old Luke Kafupi Chabala, from the […]

TUESDAY, 12.30PM A SOUTH African developer of financial analysis software has unveiled the first local trading system to run over the Internet, offering Johannesburg Stock Exchange and SA Futures Exchange trading information in real time to subscribers anywhere in the world. BFA-NET says it offers full information on bids, offers, trades, prices and volumes, updated […]

TUESDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH African cricket coach Bob Woolmer and skipper Hansie Cronje said the victories in Pakistan are now history and are concentrating on beating arch-rivals Australia in the tour Down Under. Speaking on the team’s arrival at the Johannesburg international airport on Monday, Cronje said: “The emergence of some of the young players like […]

TUESDAY 3.30PM: DESPITE 55 submissions to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission from business groupings, TRC chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu said there are nonetheless some glaring absences. Speaking at the opening of the special commission hearing on business and apartheid, Tutu said no submissions were received from white workers’ organisations, organised agriculture or oil companies. On […]

SOMALIA FLOOD AID UNITED Nations agencies and the Red Cross on Tuesday launched the first stages of an emergency relief operation to bring aid to an estimated 200 000 people at risk from drowning and disease after the heaviest flooding in Somalia in living memory. The UN has appealed for funds for the operation, estimated […]

48 KILLED IN ALGERIA AT least 26 people were killed overnight on Saturday by an armed gang near Blida, south of the Algerian capital Algiers, bringing to 48 the number of victims of massacres in the past two days, local press said on Monday. The cut-throat killings near Blida and near Tlemcen in the west, […]