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 […]

WEDNESDAY, 5.30PM THE General Council of the Bar submitted a 211-page document to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Wednesday, prior to the TRC’s special hearings on the apartheid era judiciary, which begin on Saturday. The document outlines the failings of the SA judiciary and details the moral dilemma of judges who had to find […]

TUESDAY, 3.00PM: THE National Olympic Committee of South Africa says it will be playing an important part in the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference, which starts in Edinburgh on Thursday. Nocsa President Sam Ramsamy is a member of the advisory Committee on Co-operation through Sport, which which is a think-tank of the Commonwealth Heads of […]

TUESDAY, 1.00PM: CONTROVERSIAL South African Rugby Football Union boss Dr Louis Luyt has hinted that he could step down as the president of the Gauteng Lions Rugby Union. Luyt and his vice-presedent Gert Augustyn were re-elected unopposed at the union’s meeting at Ellis Park on Monday. He said: “The time has come for a lot […]

TUESDAY, 12.30PM: TALKS on a possible sale of Anglovaal mining subsidiary Avmin to Lonrho continued on Monday, and are reportedly at an advanced stage. If the sale goes through, Johannesburg Consolidated Investments’s bid to take control of 29,9% of Lonrho could be jeopardised. JCI was planning on buying Anglo American Corporation’s stake in Lonrho, but […]

TUESDAY, 11.30AM: The second cricket Test between South Africa and Pakistan at Sheikupura was officially called off and declared a draw on Tuesday leaving the teams level in the three-match series. Meanwhile, heavy unseasonal rain in Pakistan may also disrupt the third and final Test in Faisalabad starting on Friday. South Africa have outplayed Pakistan […]