MONDAY, 10.00AM: ERNIE ELS did it again, keeping ahead of the pack through all four rounds of the Buick Classic in Westchester to win two shots ahead of American Jeff Maggert on Sunday. Els, who won the US Open just last week, is now at the top of the heap, overtaking a tired Tiger Woods […]

ANGOLA TRUCE THE United Nations has persuaded the Angolan government to halt its offensive against Unita in the diamond-rich northern part of the country. The UN said it has not called on the government troops to withdraw from the area. KENYA OPPONENT BARRED KENYAN opposition activist Sheikh Khalid Balala arrived at the weekend in Nairobi […]

MONDAY, 3.00PM VLAKPLAAS killer-cop squad founder General JJ Viktor on Monday denied ordering security policemen to petrol bomb the homes of activists in 1986. It was only a suggestion, Viktor said. At a hearing of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee, Viktor also denied giving a general order to eliminate activists. Viktor was testifying […]

MONDAY, 5.30PM THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee on Monday postponed the amnesty hearing of the killers of SA Communist Party leader Chris Hani to August 11. The decision, announced by committee chairman Judge Hassen Mall at a hearing in the Benoni town hall, was greeted with cries of “viva SACP” by party supporters […]

MONDAY, 5.30PM EDUCATION Minister Sibusiso Bengu is to appeal against the judgment of the Cape Town High Court that set aside the teacher redeployment process. (See below). “The Minister of Education has been advised that there is a reasonable prospect that another court may make a different decision,” the Education Department said in statement on […]

MONDAY, 10.30AM ROUTINE changes to indices on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Friday led to hard feelings when brokerages firms RMB and UBS bought and sold stock to match the new indices, causing huge rises in some shares and massive falls in others. The JSE makes changes to its size-based indices twice a year, and […]

MONDAY, 8.30AM SOME 600 associations around the country, including residents’ associations and farmers’ groups, will protest against crime on Tuesday by blockading city roads between dawn and 9.00AM as a result of a call by the SA Guild of Motoring Journalists. Even pilots may join the protests by refusing to fly. A major transport company […]

MONDAY, 11.30AM ACCORDING to the latest Reserve Bank Quarterly Report, real fixed investment by local authorities and parastatals showed healthy growth in the first quarter of this year, suggesting that infrastructure growth based on the Reconstruction and Development Programme is getting under way. The Bank’s figures ahow that public corporations increased investment by an annualised […]

MONDAY, 11.00AM: MARIUS CORBETT scored another world championship qualifying mark in the javelin event at the Southern Region Athletics championships in Durban on Sunday, with a personal best of 83,56m. Corbett has secured a place on the plane to Athens for the world championships in August, but things are not as certain for Hestrie Storbeck, […]