OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Tuesday 3.00pm. ON the same day as human rights watchdog Amnesty International condemned Kenyan police brutality in its 1998 annual report, Kenya’s civil service chief Fares Kuindwa has criticised the same police for brutality and corruption, newspapers reported on Tuesday. Kuindwa told officers attending a police seminar they should tackle police […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Tuesday 11.00pm. FEARS of a full-scale taxi war in Kwazulu-Natal have risen after a prominent taxi boss was gunned down as he chatted to a friend in the street of Mpumalanga town on Tuesday. Maxwell Mata was allegedly assassinated because he was a key witness in a murder trial involving taxi […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kuala Lumpur | Tuesday 11.00pm. THE Commonwealth Games general assembly decided on Tuesday to limit the number of participating sports in future meetings to 14. The limit has been forced on officials as they struggle to compete against an ever growing international sports calendar. Other changes decided at the federation’s general assembly include […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 1.30pm. NON-governmental organisations have warned that foreign funding is shrinking and that many of them face closure unless government legislates for increased tax exemption and deductibility for local donors. Parliament responded on Monday by promising to speed up the process of deciding whether NGOs should get more tax breaks. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 1.00pm. THE National Council of Provinces has passed the controversial Employment Equity Bill. The legislation was followed, on Tuesday, by a veiled threat from the Freedom Front that the affirmative action measures could spark violence. The bill, which requires companies to draw up and implement employment equity plans, was […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.00am. ANGLO American plans to develop a R4-billion zinc mine and smelter at Gamsberg in the Northern Cape, having secured an agreement to purchase a 90-million ton deposit from Gold Fields of South Africa. The new mine should create 2000 new jobs and produce 200000 tons of refined zinc a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Tuesday 10.00pm. KENYA on Tuesday deregistered six international Islamic non-governmental organisations as a direct result of the August bombing of the United States embassy in the capital, Nairobi in which 240 people died and 5000 were injured. Announcing the decision, government-appointed NGO Co-ordination Board chairman John Etemesi warned that the board […]

LANSANA FOFANA, Freetown | Monday 7.30pm. NO Sierra Leonean lawyer appears willing to defend Corporal Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leone’s rebel leader who has been charged with treason in Freetown. Most lawyers contacted by reporters on Monday, and who declined to be quoted, said they would not defend the rebel leader, who is widely regarded as […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 3.00pm. DEPUTY President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday slammed teachers for toyi-toying and drunkenness, and urged them to be dedicated to their profession. Speaking at the fourth annual congress of the South African Democratic Teachers Union, Mbeki asked the teachers to be less militant and to improve their responsibility and consciousness […]