THURSDAY, 4.30PM VICTIMS of apartheid human rights violations and their families can look forward to the prospect of financial compensation for their pains with the release on Thursday of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s policy on reparations. If the recommendations are approved, each of an estimated 22 000 victims will receive a grant of between […]

WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM: NEW laws cracking down on insider trading may be tabled in Parliament within six months, following Tuesday’s release of the King commission report into insider trading. A preliminary draft of the report was circulated in May, although the final report contains some notable differneces. Bith reports propose a new insider trading Act embracing […]

WEDNESDAY, 3.30PM THE Cape High Court on Wednesday found Jan van der Westhuizen, Clifton Barnard and Abraham Myburgh guilty on four counts of murder, two of attempted murder, three counts of sabotage, and various other counts of illegal possession of explosives and firearms. The convictions relate to the Christmas Eve 1996 bomb blast at a […]

WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: The long-awaited World Golf Tour is likely to become a reality when the commissioners of the world’s big five — US, Europe, Japan, Australia and South African tours — meet in Houston, Texas on October 29 to finalise arrangements. The South African PGA Tour commissioner Arnold Mentz, who leaves for the US on […]

WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: FREE State lock Braam Els, who injured his shoulder in the semi-final match against Natal at the weekend, trained with the rest of the squad on Tuesday night and is likely to be be in the starting line-up for the Bankfin Currie Cup final against Western Province at Newlands on Saturday. Free State […]

WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: FORMER Pakistani Test opener Aamir Sohail has been included in the 13-man Pakistani squad to do duty in the third Test against South Africa at Faisalabad on Friday. PAKISTANI SQUAD: Saeed Anwar (captain), Ali Naqvi, Aamir Sohail, Ejaz Ahmed, Muhammad Wasseem, Inzamam-ul Haq, Moin Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Azhar Mahmood, Mushtaq Ahmed, […]

WEDNESDAY, 4.00PM MORE than 700 of Johannesburg’s street vendors took to the streets on Wednesday to demand government action to halt the influx of foreigners, whom they blame for crime the decline in trade. Amid chants in Zulu of “Chase the Kwere Kwere out” and “Down with the foreigner, up with the South Africans,” the […]

WEDNESDAY, 8.30AM: DESPITE intense lobbying by international drug companies threatening to withdraw from South Africa, a controversial health Bill that allows the government to “parallel” import cheaper drugs from abroad was passed by Parliament on Tuesday. Health committee chairman Dr Abe Nkomo said a number of European countries and Japan allow parallel importing, but “it […]

WEDNESDAY, 3.30PM: PLANS for a national trade unions strike on October 27 and 28 were called off on Wednesday, after the Congress of South African Trade Unions met its tripartite alliance partners for discussions on the controversial Basic Conditions of Employment Bill on Tuesday night. The meeting, which continued through the night, was attended by […]

WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM: HOUSING Minister Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyale told Parliament on Tuesday that a clause has been inserted in the Housing Bill giving her powers to set national standards and policy for housing development. Mthembi-Mahanyale said the standards so set will be binding on the construction industry, adding that the government cannot allow the poor to fall […]