A MPUMALANGA court on Monday issued a warrant for the arrest of Safety and Security MEC Jacques Modipane after he failed to pay child support maintenance, SABC radio reported. The order to arrest Modipane was issued at Siyabuswa, in the former KwaNdebele and follows his failure to pay maintenance for a child he fathered in […]
THE head of the crime prevention unit at Gilead in Northern Province, Inspector MA Maifo, has been arrested for possessing R30000 in counterfeit notes. Maifo was arrested in a sting operation at Nedbank’s Potgietersrus branch on Friday, police spokeswoman Ronel Otto said on Monday. He appeared in the Potgietersrus Magistrate’s Court the same day and […]
INTEGRATED metals and minerals group Iscor hit a year peak on the Johannesburg stock market on Thursday as foreigners continued to snap up the stock in anticipation of an upturn in the commodity cycle. By Thursday afternoon Iscor stock was up 15 cents at 180 cents on robust volumes of 5,1-million shares. Stockbroking firm Deutsche […]
FORMER Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda is expected in the country early this week for seminar on democracy in South African organised by the Independent Electoral Commission. Kaunda will present a paper at the seminar to be held at the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria on April 21 to 23, said IEC spokesperson […]
LIBYAN Arab Airlines on Saturday invited passengers to begin booking seats as it resumes normal international service this week following the suspension of a seven-year embargo on Tripoli. LAA “invites passengers to contact our offices about international flights that will resume on April 22,” the state-owned carrier said in a statement. Jordanian officials said on […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Monday 8.40pm. ROBERT MCBRIDE, the Foreign Affairs official who was suspended 13 months ago following his arrest in Mozambique on charges of gun-running and espionage, was reinstated in his job on Monday, the foreign ministry said. McBride, who heads the ministry’s Asian desk in Pretoria, can return to work “as soon […]
MONDAY, 5.30PM: MEMBERSHIP of South African trade unions rose 13% last year, to 64% of the 5,4-million workers in registered in non-agricultural employment, labour ministry announced on Monday. Releasing the ministry’s annual report, Labour Minister Tito Mboweni said that registered unions now represent over 3,4-million members. Total union membership comprises about 24% of South Africa’s […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday 6.00pm POLICE have launched an investigation into the traffic of human body parts for witchcraft after a series of five murders in Mpumalanga, police said on Monday. Four decapitated adult corpses and a child’s head have been discovered since September in the Delmas region, an agricultural town about 100km east […]
ANGOLAN student Silva Cassamano Quiberto has been formally arrested and charged with murder in connection with the bombings that rocked Lusaka in early March. Quiberto, who was charged on Friday, has been in police custody since March 31 1999. He was earlier charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, a case which was disposed of […]
THE Egyptian parliament has unanimously scrapped a century-old law that exempted a rapist from punishment if he married his victim, a parliamentary source said on Tuesday. Parliament adopted the change on Monday evening. The move came amid a media campaign that followed outrage from women’s groups over the freeing in December of three rape suspects […]