OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 9.00pm. NOTORIOUS heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson will fight for the first time in nearly 19 months on January 16 when he makes his return to heavyweight boxing against South Africa’s Francois Botha. The return, however, might be short-lived as Tyson may be headed back to prison after he allegedly assaulted […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Manama | Monday 11.00pm. A JOINT Islamic bank may be set up in South Africa in 1999 if negotiations with prospective Gulf Arab partners are finalised, a senior banker said on Monday. ”Talks with prospective Gulf partners reached an advanced stage,” Eric Hirsch, general manager of South Africa’s Absa Bank International (ASAJ.J), said. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Tripoli | Sunday 9.00pm. A SETTLEMENT of the Lockerbie affair is “close,” Libya’s foreign ministry said on Sunday, one day after United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan met with Libyan officials in a bid to put an end to the matter “once and for all.” “A settlement of what is known as the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 9.00pm. AMERICAN golfing sensation Tiger Woods said on Thursday he wants to spread the word about golf to South Africa’s disadvantaged black children. Woods, on his first visit to the country, made his first comments about race since arriving last Monday for the Million Dollar challenge and a 10-minute meeting […]

President Nelson Mandela, in an interview published on Sunday, categorically ruled out a blanket amnesty for human right crimes committed during the apartheid era.

OWN CORRESPONDENT , Sun City | Friday 6.30pm. SATURDAY UPDATE: LEE WESTWOOD of Britain took the lead on Saturday. He shot a record-equaling 65 on Friday, then an inspired 66 on Saturday, putting him two shots ahead of Justin Leonard, with Tiger Woods and Nick Price four shots behind him. Ernie Els is two shots […]

Ferial Haffajee Deputy president Thabo Mbeki and Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting Jay Naidoo have been drawn into the e.tv fray. Warring factions in the Midi consortium – which owns e.tv – have reportedly approached their offices to seek intervention in the new channel’s internal and external battles. The approaches to government have provoked […]

Donna Block: SHARE WORLD When the parties stop and the champagne haze wears off, 1998 will be a year that many of us would love to forget – at least from a financial point of view. Anything that could go wrong did. The mighty Asian tigers transformed into pussycats. The Russian bear got stuffed. Japan’s […]

Jane Rosenthal VERLIESFONTEIN by Karel Schoeman (Human & Rousseau) The grave of a young war hero killed in an Anglo-Boer War skirmish is what the narrator of this novel, an historian, is looking for. He and his photographer are heading for a cemetery in a Northern Cape dorp. Although the narrator dismisses as limited the […]