RESCUERS may be close to reaching missing miners Lawrence Molise Tsolo and John Befile Delekile as the search was narrowed to an area of about 300 square metres on Wednesday night. Anglogold spokesman Andries Van Zyl said rescue teams have reached the stopes where the missing men were working when the earthquake, measuring 4,6 on […]
A ONE-ARMED man robbed two women near the Gracelands casino at Secunda of R45 000 on Wednesday. Police spokeswoman Inspector Sibongile Nkosi said on Thursday that the women were taking the money to First National Bank, about 500m from the Foschini branch where they worked, when the one-armed man held them up with a gun.
CALM returned to the capital of the Comoros islands in the Indian Ocean on Thursday after three days of violent protests, residents said. For three days, gangs of youths on the main island of Grand Comore attacked the homes and cars of residents originally from the small island of Anjouan, which declared its independence from […]
CABINET on Wednesday announced that June 2, the day when the country goes to the polls for its second democratic elections, will be a public holiday. The cabinet also announced that the new Parliament will convene on June 14 to elect the country’s new president and the National Assembly’s presiding officers. The country’s nine provincial […]
TRADE and Industry Department chief director of business regulation and consumer services Alistair Ruiters has been appointed a commissioner on the Competition Commission, Cabinet announced on Wednesday. The five-year appointment will see the Commission investigate corporate behaviour according to often controversial guidelines outlined in the Competition Act. Ruiters will be leaving the DTI, having been […]
A UNITED States national was this week arrested at Harare airport when some 80 rounds of ammunition were found in his luggage. The Daily News reported on Wednesday that airport manager Robert Dombodzvuku said the unnamed man was arrested on Monday, as he was about to board a domestic flight from Harare to the second […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM: STORM clouds are gathering on the horizon for the Premier Soccer League. In the latest incident of controversy, the PSL has switched Sunday’s BobSave Superbowl semifinal between premier league outfit Sundowns and First Division squad Seven Stars from Nyanga stadium to Athlone. The PSL had previously declared Nyanga a “fit” venue. Downs had […]
A COURT in northern Rwanda has sentenced seven people to death for crimes against humanity committed during the 1994 genocide, the Rwandan news agency ARI reported on Wednesday. Another five of the 25 defendants in the case heard in Ruhengeri received life terms, while one will serve a year and the rest were acquitted. More […]
BUCHIZYA MSETEKA, Pretoria | Thursday 12.30pm. XENOPHOBIA is on the rise in post-apartheid South Africa, with a growing number of brutal attacks and killings of foreigners, the United Nations refugee agency said on Wednesday. ”In the past two years, more than 30 innocent refugees and asylum seekers have been brutally killed, simply because they were […]
ALISTER BULL, Johannesburg | Thursday 12.15pm. SOUTH Africa on Wednesday revealed its notorious murder rate was on the increase after four years of decline, backing popular impressions that crime is out of control. The Ministry for Safety and Security issued figures for the three months to February, 1999, which showed murder up to 15,9 per […]