OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 7.30pm. JUSTICE Minister Dullah Omar on Tuesday cast a pall over the future of Judge Willem Heath and his anti-corruption watchdog, the Heath Special Investigation Unit. Speaking before Parliament, Omar questioned the whether having a judge serve full-time on as head of the unit raises the question: “What happens […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 6.30pm. A LAST-MINUTE amendment to Dr Nkosazana Zuma’s anti-tobacco bill will see a blanket ban on smoking in all public places. A further amendment has backed the R200 fine for smoking in the workplace with a jail sentence if the smoker can’t or won’t pay up. The changes are […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Tuesday 10.00pm. DISCREDITED Mpumalanga legislature member David Mkhwanazi threatened to sue the provincial leadership of the African National Congress on Tuesday for implicating him in corruption and suspending him from the party. The former environmental affairs MEC said on Tuesday that he had been publicly defamed by a number of the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Freetown | Tuesday 8.00pm. KAMJOR traditional fighters in Sierra leone ambushed rebel forces in the densely forested north-east of the country on Monday, killing 52 and wounding an unknown number. The Kamajors, who are assisting the Sierra Leone government to defeat the remnants of the fomer junta and its allies the Revolutionary United […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Tuesday 8.30pm. ELEVEN foreign doctors are free to work in the private sector after the Pretoria High Court overturned a measure of the National Interim Medical and Dental Council restricting them to the public sector. The court ordered Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma and the NIMDC to register the doctors “without restrictions” […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, DURBAN | Tuesday 12.30pm. THE son of suspended Inkatha Freedom Party politician and local warlord Thomas Shabalala has been arrested for attempted murder in connection with a spate of violence in Lindelani near Durban. Mbuso Percival Shabalala (26) was arrested on Tuesday on two charges of attempted murder in connection with attacks which […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 11.50am. PROPOSED changes to the Competition Bill suggested by the Congress of South African Trade Unions and diamond conglomerate De Beers were rejected by the National Council of Provinces’ economic affairs committee on Monday. Cosatu’s request that unions be represented in merger control proceedings was rejected by chief director […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maseru | Tuesday 9.00pm. THOUSANDS of weapons stolen from the Lesotho Defence Force’s armoury by mutinous soldiers are still floating around Lesotho, the defence force warned on Tuesday. In his first public statement since he was reinstated after rebel troops deposed him last month, Lesotho Defence Force chief Lieutenant-General Makhula Masakeng said: ”What […]

DANIELLE KNIGHT, Washington | Monday 8.30pm. UNITED States-based oil company Chevron on Monday admitted that it did have a role in an incident in Nigeria last May in which security forces shot at and killed two activists who had taken over one of the firm’s offshore oil platforms. Until now, Chevron held it was not […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Monday 7.50pm. The Land Claims Court will receive its first urban claim in Gauteng this week, the provincial commission on restitution of land rights said on Monday. Commissioner Emma Mashinini said in Pretoria that the case involved hundreds of former residents of The Highlands, who were forcibly removed from their homes […]