SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 10.47pm AJAX Cape Town achieved a notable Castle Premiership double over Kaizer Chiefs with a 1-0 victory at Newlands Stadium courtesy of an early goal by Carlo Scott. It was the second time in four days that the young striker scored the winner – he struck in injury time […]
GUNMEN killed 23 people and injured 21, including 10 seriously, at a fake roadblock near Medea in northern Algeria. Local people previously said that 19 people died and 26 were injured when a group of about 20 Islamic fundamentalists machine-gunned a bus on Wednesday after the driver refused to stop at the roadblock at Hamdania. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 7.00pm. PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki pledged on Thursday to help Zimbabwe solve its land crisis, but avoided criticising either President Robert Mugabe or former colonial power Britain over the dispute. Addressing the nation in a live broadcast, the president also moved to debunk fears that the country will go the same […]
THE world answered Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano’s call for aid to help with flood relief with an international donation of $452,9-million, the United Nations Development Programme said on Thursday. The final sum, about $3-million more than Chissano requested, was announced at the end of a two day international fundraising conference in Rome. Mark Malloch Brown, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 6.00pm THE rand has hit a fresh low against the US dollar, knocked by renewed euro weakness, reports of political violence in Zimbabwe and offshore selling by US-based banks. The embattled currency — which has lost more than 12% of its value to the US unit so far this year […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.10pm ZIMBABWE faces economic isolation over President Robert Mugabe’s land-grab campaign, which threatens property rights and foreign investor confidence, THE South African Chamber of Business warned on Thursday. Sacob head Kevin Wakeford said Mugabe’s hardline speech on the country’s land ownership turmoil on Wednesday will add to the woes of […]
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OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 5.40pm. AN assassin for the former apartheid regime described on Wednesday how he strangled liberation activists on aircraft before dumping their bodies in the sea because a tranquilising dart provided by state scientist Wouter Basson did not work. Johan Theron, a former military pilot, told the Pretoria High Court on […]
MORE than 10000 Lesotho miners employed in South African gold mines have lost their jobs since the beginning of this year. “Many of these retrenched mineworkers return to Lesotho where they face bleak employment prospects,” Puseletso Salae of the Mineworkers Development Agency in Lesotho’s capital, Maseru, said. He added that many of the mineworkers are […]