NO DNA TEST FOR CHILUBA ZAMBIA’s High Court on Tuesday dismissed an opposition petition to order President Frederick Chiluba to undergo a DNA test to determine whether his is really Zambian-born. The opposition claims that Chiluba was not rightfully elected as president, saying he was born of a father, 74-year-old Luke Kafupi Chabala, from the […]

TUESDAY, 12.30PM A SOUTH African developer of financial analysis software has unveiled the first local trading system to run over the Internet, offering Johannesburg Stock Exchange and SA Futures Exchange trading information in real time to subscribers anywhere in the world. BFA-NET says it offers full information on bids, offers, trades, prices and volumes, updated […]

TUESDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH African cricket coach Bob Woolmer and skipper Hansie Cronje said the victories in Pakistan are now history and are concentrating on beating arch-rivals Australia in the tour Down Under. Speaking on the team’s arrival at the Johannesburg international airport on Monday, Cronje said: “The emergence of some of the young players like […]

TUESDAY 3.30PM: DESPITE 55 submissions to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission from business groupings, TRC chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu said there are nonetheless some glaring absences. Speaking at the opening of the special commission hearing on business and apartheid, Tutu said no submissions were received from white workers’ organisations, organised agriculture or oil companies. On […]

SOMALIA FLOOD AID UNITED Nations agencies and the Red Cross on Tuesday launched the first stages of an emergency relief operation to bring aid to an estimated 200 000 people at risk from drowning and disease after the heaviest flooding in Somalia in living memory. The UN has appealed for funds for the operation, estimated […]

48 KILLED IN ALGERIA AT least 26 people were killed overnight on Saturday by an armed gang near Blida, south of the Algerian capital Algiers, bringing to 48 the number of victims of massacres in the past two days, local press said on Monday. The cut-throat killings near Blida and near Tlemcen in the west, […]

MONDAY, 3.00PM ZIMBABWEAN war veterans became rowdy at Monday’s hearing of the Chidyausiku Commission probing fraudulent claims from a war victims’ compensation fund, leading to an abrupt suspension of proceedings. The 250 veterans packing out the court house were angered by cross examination of their leader, Dr Chenjerai Hunzvi, who was being questioned on alleged […]

MONDAY, 4.00PM KENYAN President Daniel arap Moi on Monday dissolved the country’s seventh parliament Monday in preparation for general elections expected later this year. A statement issued by Moi’s office at State House in Nairobi said the parliament and all other elected bodies have been dissolved. No date has yet been set for the elections. […]

MONDAY, 11.00AM: LEADING credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s visited SA last week as part of a review process that could see SA’s international credit rating being upgraded. The agency has refused to comment on the visit, which was confirmed by the finance department. S&P has given SA a credit rating one notch below the […]

MONDAY, 11.00AM: BLACK empowerment group Thebe Investment Corporation is set to enter the retail petroleum market through its Thebe Petroleum Company (Tepco), which intends opening its first retail filling stations early in the new year. Tepco, formerly Bambanani Petroleum, was formed two years ago to wholesale petroleum, with the company 80% owned by Thebe, while […]