THE United States Information Service has offered to help Swazi journalists set up an independent media body. The offer follows protests against a proposed Media Council Bill, seeking to force all journalists to be licenced by the Ministry of Broadcasting and Information Services. Swazi journalists are planning a meeting to discuss how best to use […]
THE search for a missing single-engine aircraft that plunged into the sea off Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape on Sunday is continuing. Authorities said they have lost sight of the wreckage of the plane which was last seen floating in the water, about three-and-a-half nautical miles from Birdrock, south of Port St Johns […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bangalore | Monday 7.40pm SOUTH Africa have slammed India by an innings and 71 runs to claim the first home-series win in 13 years, bowling their hosts out for 250 in the second Test at Bangalore and convincingly winning the series 2-0. India started on Monday looking still to be in a strong […]
ALLEGED mafioso, Vito Palazzolo, was re-arrested at his Cape Town home this weekend and is expected to appear in court on Monday. The Directorate of Public Prosecutions said Palazzolo was re-arrested at his Bantry Bay home on Saturday in connection with fraud and forgery charges relating to his South African citizenship. He was arrested last […]
THE Cape Town Regional Court has given alleged Sicilian mafia kingpin Vito Palazzolo seven days to give reasons why his South African citizenship should not be cancelled. Palazzolo was re-arrested on the weekend on fraud and perjury charges relating to his application for South African citizenship in 1994. He was arrested in November on the […]
WATER Affairs and Forestry Minister Ronnie Kasrils, and Lesotho’s Minister of Natural Resources Monyane Moleleki on Friday inaugurated a new highway in Lesotho. The new road is to facilitate easy transportation of materials and services for the construction of the Mohale Dam and tunnel, part of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. It will provide 24-hour […]
MORE than 12000 villagers in the Chiawa area about 100km from the Zambian capital Lusaka have been hit by floods after the gates of Kariba dam were opened last week. A spokesman for the villagers said that houses and crops have been washed away and that they are appealing for compensation from the Zambezi River […]
A PARIS court ruled on Monday that a Rwandan former army officer accused of taking part in the genocide of 1994 should be handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Francois-Xavier Nzuwonemeye, 45, was arrested at his home in Montauban in southwest France on February 15, on the basis of a warrant […]
TWO survivors of a plane crash in Botswana walked into a game camp in the north-east of the country Sunday after a 200km hike through the desert. The men said they had left three other survivors of Wednesday’s crash when they set off on their journey on Thursday to find help. The aircraft was more […]
THE remaining three passengers of a light Cessna 414 which crashed in Botswana on Wednesday have been found alive. Two survivors of the crash arrived at a game camp in the north-east of the country on Sunday, after a 200km hike through the desert. The aircraft was more than halfway to Maun when the pilot […]