Yearly Archives: 1999

SEVEN men were killed and one was seriously wounded when an armed gang stormed into a private home in the Vaal Triangle township of Evaton, south of Johannesburg, police said on Tuesday. Police arrested four men and confiscated three pistols soon after the massacre at midnight on Monday. “The four entered the house and apparently […]

IN the latest violent storm to lash the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape, at least 21 people were killed on Monday, hundreds injured and some 50 homes flattened in the Mount Ayliff and Thabankulu area, according to Mount Ayliff police station commander Nxibe Zweladinga. At least three of the injured are reported to be […]

THE 1989 assassination of prominent Swapo member Anton Lubowski will return to court next month. Five former military and police officers have launched large defamation suits on allegations about the killing, principally against The Namibian newspaper. The case will be heard from February 8 to 19. The plaintiffs — retired Namibian Police Deputy Commissioner Flip […]

WATER levels in Mozambique’s Pungue valley continue to rise after widespread flooding at the weekend. Maputo daily Noticias reports that the rising Pungue river in the central Sofala province are threatening to cut off the main highway between Zimbabwe and the Indian Ocean port of Beira. The newspaper reports flood waters were lapping at the […]

THE trial of 50 Lesotho soldiers on mutiny charges hit an unexpected snag on Monday when all six lawyers in the defence team withdrew. Spokesperson for the defence team Khalaki Sello said the lawyers withdrew to register their objection to the trial being held inside a maximum security prison. The trial was adjourned to Tuesday […]

GAUTENG jockey Craig Magua, 36, died at a Johannesburg hospital on Sunday night after sustaining severe head injuries in a racing accident at Gosforth Park on Sunday afternoon. The freak accident occurred in the fourth race in which Magua rode a 33-1 outsider, Whistling Nun. She was a backmarker in the race when she stumbled […]

YOUTH clubs in Mpumalanga are being urged to introduce the ancient SiSwati custom of virginity testing in an attempt to fight the spread of the pandemic. Mpumalanga has the second highest Aids and HIV infection rates in South Africa. The first youth club to adopt the practice, Vukuzakhe Youth Club in the small farming towns […]

NIGERIA’S centre-left Peoples Democratic Party won the governorship of Rivers State in a re-run vote this weekend, taking its national tally to 20, officials said on Sunday. PDP candidate Peter Odili won the southeastern state with 770074 votes, against 710280 votes for Ebenezer Isokrari of the centre-right All Peoples Party. Eric Bekwele Aso of the […]

PUBLIC prosecutors staged a placard demonstration outside the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court at lunch time on Monday, in protest at 6% salary increases announced last month by Justice Minister Dullah Omar. Spokesperson for the picketers Yolande Labuschagne said the prosecutors restricted their protest to lunch hour after they were threatened with dismissal if they protested during […]

A LIGHTNING bolt struck a house and killed a family of seven in the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape late on Sunday, police said. Two other people were injured and admitted to hospital. Police said a grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, two teenage boys and a girl were killed by the bolt in the Libode […]