KENYAN Simon Bor set a course record of 2:09:25 in winning the Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday, beating the mark set 11 years ago by compatriot James Bungei by almost one minute. South Africa’s Johannes Maremane finished fifth in 2:14:19.
THE Azanian People’s Liberation Army will officially disband at a parade in Umtata on Saturday March 20. PAC spokesperson Wonder Masombuka said on Tuesday the move comes after a unanimous decision at the party’s conference in December that its armed wing be officially disbanded. PAC President Stanley Mogoba will preside over the final parade in […]
President Nelson Mandela will meet Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi in the capital Tripoli.
AT least 800 armed Democratic Republic of Congolo soldiers fleeing a rebel offensive have streamed into Zambia over the past few days, the Times of Zambia reported on Monday. The paper reported that nearly 10000 civilians including some French settlers had also crossed into Zambia. The soldiers entered Zambia through the northern town of Kaputa, […]
THE two wives of a Malian immigrant were given suspended five-year jail terms on Monday for having five of their daughters circumcised in 1992 at their home in a Paris suburb. The case was linked with that of Hawa Greou, another Malian woman who was jailed for eight years by a Paris court in February […]
THE bail application of the four men arrested in Nyanga, Cape Town on Saturday in connection with last week’s murder of political leaders in Nyanga and KTC townships was postponed on Monday the Wynberg Regional Court. The men were arrested following the murder of four members of the United Democratic Movement and an African National […]
THE Labour Ministry announced on Monday that it is planning to introduce legislation laying out a minimum wages for the hundreds of thousands of domestic and agricultural workers. Addressing journalists after a debate on his budget vote in Parliament, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana said that government is concerned that 25% of South Africans currently earn […]
POLICE are holding two Zambian men in Lusaka and have deported two foreigners in connection with the bombs which exploded in in the city a fortnight ago. The foreigners, an American identified as Gilbert Herbert and an Austrian named David Clay, who were arrested together with the duo, were deported to South Africa and Zimbabwe […]
AN estimated thousand municipal workers in Welkom went on strike on Monday after the council unilaterally downgraded their conditions of service. The move will see employees losing all study leave, leave encashment provisions and travel allowances. 14
NIGERIA and five other countries in the Gulf of Guinea have provisionally adopted an international manual for monitoring marine pollution, independent newspaper The Guardian reported on Monday. Environmental scientists from Benin, Cameroon, Cte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Nigeria met at the weekend in Lagos and agreed to adopt the manual to co-ordinate tackling pollution in […]