MUAMMAR GADDAFI, the Libyan leader, is flanked by bodyguards ahead of delivering a speech at a soccer stadium in the Guinean capital Conakry, in which he condemned the African Union and again urged the continent's leaders to create a United States of Africa. AT HOME
The National Prosecuting Authority says it hasn't yet decided whether to prosecute former minister of police Adriaan Vlok and ex-police chief Johann van der Merwe for the alleged poisoning of Rev Frank Chikane. Last year, however, Vlok asked Chikane's forgiveness and washed his feet.
Banks pour scorn on the findings of Capgemini research which claimed that clients were paying double the international average on their current accounts.
Unions representing SA's mineworkers are demanding wage increases of between 15% and 20%. In addition to higher wages, the unions also want improvements in leave, health and funeral benefits.
Transport company Super Group signs an agreement with Shaanxi Automobile to import trucks from the Chinese vehicle manufacturer. To prepare for the introduction of Shaanxi's vehicles, the company has already invested R50m in upgrading its Pietermaritzburg facility, where the vehicles will be assembled.
ABROAD
Saddam Hussein's cousin, Ali Hassan Majid - widely known as "Chemical Ali" - is sentenced to hang for masterminding a genocidal military campaign that used poison gas against thousands of Iraq's Kurds in the 1980s.
NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest cellphone group, plans to offer discounts of as much as 50% after new entrant Softbank slashes prices to win users in Japan's saturated mobile market.
China's largest soft drinks maker, Wahaha, threatens to counter sue French firm Danone in an escalating dispute between the two companies. Danone, meanwhile, is suing Wahaha for illegally selling copies of its drinks. The two firms had been partners since 1996.
The US housing market remains sluggish, with sales of existing homes falling 0,3% in May, the slowest pace of growth since summer 2003. Sales are now 10% lower than a year ago.
Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips refuse to sign a deal with the Venezuelan government that would maintain their involvement in multibillion-dollar projects that the country is nationalising. Tuesday was the deadline for companies to accept Venezuelan government attempts to own a majority stake in four projects.
Zimbabwe orders businesses to cut the price of basic goods and services by up to half, in an attempt to rein in inflation, which hit 3 700% in April. The government says price increases are a political ploy to force a regime change.
SPORT
SA loses the second Tri-Nations test to the All Blacks in Durban and decides to leave 20 of its best players at home for the return leg in Australia and New Zealand.
FC Barcelona score two goals within four minutes in the closing stages to gain a 2-1 victory against Mamelodi Sundowns.
Adriaan Vlok
