OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 7.20pm. AGRICULTURE Minister Derek Hanekom said on Thursday that the department of agriculture and land affairs views the controversial training of Tuli elephant calves in Brits as a pilot project to determine whether it could be an alternative to culling. Hanekom said training the elephants could give them a better […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.30am. PRIZE money for the Comrades Marathon has increased dramatically, with R100000 now lined up for the winners of the mens’ and womens’ races. The Comrades Marathon Association on Tuesday announced that an increase in the entry fee from R75 to R80 has helped push the total prize money up […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 10.30am. THE 1998 Super-12 rugby draw, released on Tuesday by the New Zealand Rugby Football Union, sees the defending champions Canterbury Crusaders hosting The Chiefs in the opening match of the competition, which features regional sides from Australia and New Zealand. For a fourth consecutive year, New Zealand will host […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.30am. BRAZILIAN Football Federation president Ricardo Texeirra will be part of a delegation that will visit South Africa in December on a fact-finding mission, and former Brazilian coach Carlos Alberto Parreira will arrive on November 20 to be interviewed for the Bafana Bafana coaching position, The Star reports. The visit […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 9.15pm. TWO sections of the Harmful Business Practices Act have been declared unconstitutional by Pretoria High Court Judge K van Dijkhorst, who refused to declare the entire Act to unconstitutional. Judge van Dijkhorst ruled that section 7(3) of the Act, which allows officers investigating in terms of the act automatic […]

President Nelson Mandela is to meet the chairman of the Congolese Democratic Coalition, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Tuesday 5.30pm. ANGOLA’S National Assembly on Tuesday opened debate on a ruling party motion to strip the “special status” accorded to discredited Unita leader Jonas Savimbi. The ruling MPLA wants to divest Savimbi as “leader of the main opposition” with the right to a 400-strong bodyguard, for his failure to respect […]

DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.00pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange climbed nearly 2% on Tuesday, helped by a steadily falling yield on the R150, well below 16% at 4pm, and a steady rand-dollar exchange rate. According to Quintus Kilburn of Barnard Jacobs Mellet, the steadiness of the European bourses — now fueled by a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lusaka | Tuesday 9.00pm. TWO days of talks aimed at ending the civil strife in the Democratic Republic of Congo ended Tuesday with the adoption, in principle, of a draft ceasefire agreement. A communique issued at the end of the talks said defence and foreign ministers from a dozen countries had also agreed […]