OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Tuesday 9.30pm. A KEY witness in the Bronkhorstspruit heist trial has described how he was shot three times by one of the robbers, and has identified the man who shot him. Fifteen men are on trial in the Pretoria High Court for the daring heist, noted for the military precision with […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Windhoek | Wednesday 10.00pm. THE Namibian government has introduced a bill to parliament to alter the constitution to allow President Sam Njoma a third term in office. Controversy has surrounded the mooted legislation. Prime Minister Hage Geingob, introducing the Namibian Constitution Amendment Bill to the national Assembly on Wednesday, was greeted by a […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.00pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange appeared to have come out of a long winter on Tuesday as positive sentiment from Monday spilled through into the markets. Dealers said the market was firm across the board, largely as a result of a growing outlook that the worst of the domestic economic […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 9.00pm. THE National Council of Provinces has approved Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma’s tobacco bill which bans tobacco advertising and smoking in the workplace. ”Just as surely as smoking causes cancer, so does the industry target our children and the youth,” Zuma said while urging the NCOP to approve the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Tuesday 9.30pm. A 19-year-old SBV security guard who survived the 1997 Bronkhorstspruit cash in transit heist, on Monday told the Pretoria High Court that he had to receive psychiatric treatment after seeing the mutilated bodies of two colleagues who were shot in the head at close range by the ambushers. A […]

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” […]