TUESDAY, 9.15AM: The black empowerment group Real Africa Holdings has announced its most ambitious deal to date, buying up half of the country’s largest information technology group. Real Africa, headed by Don Ncube, will pay R1 billion by May next year for half the South African operations of PQ Data. PQ Data was itself only […]

TUESDAY, 5:30PM: JUSTICE Minister Dullah Omar has come out in support of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, due to appear next week before a truth commission hearing on the murders and other human rights violations allegedly commited by her late-1980s bodyguards, the Mandela United Football Club. His staunch defence of Madikizela-Mandela came nine months after his ringing defence […]

MONDAY, 2.15PM: FOR the first time in South African legal history, court papers on a pending matter have been posted on the Internet before they’ve reached the court room. The telecomms giant Telkom’s notice of motion and founding affidavit against the SA Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Satra) have been posted on the Internet by the Rhodes […]

MONDAY 2.30AM: SIXTEEN youths arrested on Sunday when found selling biology matric exam papers in Lenasia, near Johannesburg, have been released in time to write their Monday exams. But they will still be expected to appear in court on Wednesday to face fraud charges. The Gauteng matric biology exam went ahead because, said an Education […]

MONDAY, 9.55AM: SOUTH AFRICA has got a new world boxing champion in Corrie Sanders after he won the vacant heavyweight World Boxing Union title against Ross Purity at the Carousel on Saturday night. Sanders outpointed Purity in a boring 12-round fight on the tripple title bill on Saturday. He said he is now ready to […]

MONDAY 5.00PM: ROGER CHONGWE, chairman of the major seven-party Zambian opposition alliance, has written from Australia to the independent Zambia Post newspaper saying that he is afraid to return home following last month’s failed coup. Chongwe, regarded as second only to Kenneth Kaunda in political stature, heads the Liberal Progressive Front party. He said he […]

PAEDOPHILE LINKED TO NATS The jailed son of paedophile Gert van Rooyen sparked a new controversy on Sunday with claims in the Sunday Independent that his father had abducted children for cash on behalf of a network that included three former National Party cabinet ministers. The older van Rooyen killed himself in 1991 as police […]

MONDAY, 9.05AM: BAFANA BAFANA suffered major defeat on the eve of their game against Brazil on December 7 at the Ellis Park Stadium, on the hands of Germany in Dusseldorf on Saturday. South Africa lost 3-0. Bafana Bafana, who played without several of their regular players, never looked a threat to the Germans. South Africa […]

MONDAY, 9.30AM: THE Springboks’ star scrumhalf, Joost Westhuizen, could be out of rugby for six months after tearing a groin muscle in the weekend game against France. “Joost could be sidelined for a minimum of three months, possible for as long as six,” confirmed coach Nich Mallett, who will get a final verdict from the […]