A NIGERIAN teenager has burnt herself to death in protest at a marriage imposed on her by her father. Binta Gambo, 18, set herself on fire on Monday in despair at the marriage forced on her two months ago. Kano Radio Corporation said. Gambo, from Mararrabar Musawa in Katsina State, northern Nigeria had apparently told […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 1.30pm. THE struggle to represent Africa at the 2002 World Cup finals in Japan and South Korea begins this weekend with 23 first-leg preliminary matches involving the mighty and the minnows, including South Africa’s Bafana Bafana who face Lesotho in Maseru. The build-up has, inevitably, been marred by club-versus-country […]
DESPITE having wild animals roaming within its boundaries, Marloth Park municipality has lost its bid to be incorporated into the neighbouring Kruger National Park. Instead, the Demarcation Board has decided to link it with the small towns of Komatipoort and Malelane in Mpumalanga, and four rural areas in Nkomazi. Marloth Park is part of a […]
The Appeal Court in Bloemfontein on Thursday refused alleged Hard Livings gang members, Solomon Staggie and Desmond Holland leave to appeal against their convictions for murdering three members of a rival gang in February 1998. Staggie and Holland were found guilty in the Cape Town High Court last year for murdering Riyaan Samsodien, Clinton Wyngaardt […]
THE recent flooding in the Northern Province has resulted in a plague of grasshoppers in Pietersburg, e.tv news reported. The Long Horned grasshoppers appeared in the province’s capital a few weeks ago and have since multiplied dramatically. Many businesses shut down for a few days as customers stayed indoors to avoid the visitors. The Department […]
South African motorists are facing the highest fuel prices ever following Wednesdays’ sharp increase in the price of diesel, paraffin and petrol. In Gauteng petrol will now cost R3,22 per litre and R3,11 per litre in the Cape. Paraffin has risen by 14 cents a litre. Long queues were reported at filling stations just before […]
FORMER Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba has died aged 96. Bourguiba died in Monastir, 160km south of Tunis. The former president, who led his country to independence from France in 1956, had been ill for some time. He was removed from power in 1987 following allegations that he had become senile. Bourguiba created a moderate, pro-western […]
THE European Union has expressed deep dismay at political developments in Zanzibar and appealed to Tanzania’s union government to intervene to sort out the debacle. A statement released on Wednesday by the EU mission said it is dismayed at the outcome of a treason trial hearing on April 3, when the high court in Zanzibar […]
IN the nineteen sixties and seventies, many South African fighters travelled across the borders to lace up their gloves in our neighbouring countries. This was necessitated by the laws of the day prohibiting black an white fighters from meeting each other in local professional rings. Fortunately those days are long gone and professional boxing is […]
SIMON Gopane, who plays for Jomo Cosmos, will replace Brian Baloyi in Bafana’s World Cup play-off match against Lesotho after Baloyi failed to pass a fitness test at a practise session in Johannesburg on Wednesday. The Kaizer Chiefs keeper is pulled out of Sunday’s crucial first leg qualifier in Maseru after sustaining injuring at his […]