Yearly Archives: 2001

THE body of an 84-year-old farmer was found in his house in Steytlerville in the Uitenhage area on Sunday afternoon, Eastern Cape police said on Monday. Police said the man’s son became worried when he could not get hold of his father. He called the police and they proceeded to the house around 2pm. The […]

Lagos | Saturday A FRENCH medical team that visited the northern Nigerian city of Kano, where a cholera outbreak has already claimed over 250 lives, said the situation there was serious and the hospital “overflowing”. Volunteer medical group Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) – Doctors Without Borders – sent a medical team to the cholera-ravaged city […]

A 20-year-old Fidelity guard was shot dead during a cash-in-transit heist on the N2 near Port Elizabeth early on Friday morning, Eastern Cape police said. Captain Dirk Coetzee said three guards were travelling in a Telkom vehicle when two cars pushed them off the road near the Greenbushes off-ramp. Shots were fired and one guard […]

FIFTEEN people have killed and many others were seriously injured in a pipeline explosion in Nigeria’s south eastern Imo State, national television reported on Thursday. The explosion happened near the town of Umudike, the television said, showing footage of some of those burnt to death in the incident. Imo State Governor Achike Udenwa has visited […]

THE Muslim holy month of Ramadan will start on Friday in Libya, the official Jana news agency reported. The government had based its decision on the lunar calendar, Jana said on Wednesday. Ramadan is the ninth month in Islam’s lunar calendar when Muslims believe God revealed the holy Koran to the Prophet Mohammad. The holiday […]

MALAWI’S President Bakili Muluzi is expected in Maputo Thursday for a two-day visit that will include talks with his Mozambican counterpart Joaquim Chissano. Chissano press representative Antonio Matonse said the two leaders would hold “consultations on bilateral and regional issues”. Muluzi is the chairmen of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and Chissano is head […]

MUNGO SOGGOT and BARRY STREEK, Cape Town | Friday Friday: 9am Scorpions sting Shabir Shaik SHABIR Shaik, a bidding contractor in the multi-billion rand arms procurement deal, was arrested in Durban on Friday morning for possession of classified government documents, said National Director of Public Prosecutions representative Sipho Ngwema. Ngwema said Shaik was allegedly in […]

TWO Slovakian nationals were arrested with “suitcases full” of tortoises on the Cape West Coast this week, and are being held in custody after appearing briefly in court on Thursday. The men, Martin Kjskjn and Martin Uricek, are to be charged with illegal possession, collection and transport of 113 angulate tortoises, also known as “rooipens […]

A DOZEN heavily armed riot police on Wednesday searched the home and office of a prominent university of Malawi researcher in Zomba, near the commercial capital of Blantyre. “They literally turned upside down my home and office,” said Wiseman Chijere Chirwa. The professor said he was served with a search warrant and a charge of […]

A DURBAN morgue worker and another man were arrested for trafficking of body parts on Friday, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Director Bala Naidoo said the anti-corruption unit and the elite crime fighting unit, the Scorpions, followed up information on the man who was employed at the Gale Street mortuary. Both a dealer and the man were […]