Yearly Archives: 2001

A BURGLAR who was robbed of his loot turned to the police for help, only to be arrested for his own crime. Leonard Mabunda, 21, was found guilty in the Nelspruit District Court of breaking into a house twice in April last year and stealing goods worth R60 000. While he was ferrying the goods […]

DARREN SCHUETTLER, Johannesburg | Monday AILING South African steel group Iscor has urged investors to reject what it called an “opportunistic” bid by two major shareholders to shake up Iscor’s board and remove its executive chairman. Anglovaal Mining Ltd (Avmin) and the Industrial Development Corp (IDC), which together hold 26% of Iscor, last week proposed […]

THIRTY-six Egyptians were struck down with serious food poisoning after eating fishy sandwiches sold for their alleged aphrodisiac properties. The owner of the fish restaurant was arrested for selling the dodgy snacks containing a mixture of fish, shrimps and lobster, which he said had the same effect as the Viagra anti-impotence pill. He was selling […]

FORMER President Nelson Mandela has launched an astonishing attack on South Africa?s black elite, including members of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), who he says are ”arrogant” and are widening the gap between race groups. In an interview published in a Sunday newspaper, the former president said he was particularly concerned about the growing […]

NAMIBIAN Minerals Corp, Africa’s second-largest ocean diamond producer, says an accident on its seabed crawler has crippled its cash flows and forced it to put its South African subsidiaries into liquidation. Namibian Minerals, or Namco, expects the provisional winding-up order to be finalised within six weeks. The NamSSol system was damaged while the crawler was […]

DIAMOND miner De Beers is likely to deliver its last annual results as a listed firm this week when it reports a doubling of 2000 profit, but the company vows to remain an open book for years to come. De Beers could quit the Johannesburg Stock Exchange as early as mid-year when its ownership is […]

A 13-year-old Ethiopian girl escaped forced marriage with a 39-year-old man after she ran away and complained to the police, an Ethiopian press agency reported on Friday. The girl was slated to marry the father of three on February 25, according to the Walta Information Centre, considered close to the Ethiopian authorities. Local police said […]

A BULL elephant that escaped from the Kruger National Park has been shot dead along the N4 highway at Hectorspruit because it was disrupting traffic. The animal had to be shot when it didn’t respond to attempts to chase it back into the bush. The Mpumalanga Parks Board alerted when Hectorspruit residents reported one or […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday MORE than one billion rand ($125m) will be invested in rebuilding Alexandra, Johannesburg’s most overcrowded township as part of government’s urban renewal plan, a housing official announced on Friday. The development of the township, scene of violence last week linked to forced removals of squatters, is already underway, Gauteng provincial […]