JOHANNESBURG police have asked local authorities to drain the artificial Bruma Lake, where five bodies have been found in the past nine months, fearing a serial killer is on the loose. Two more bodies of middle-aged men were found this week in the lake, east of the city centre, which is surrounded by a shopping […]
THE Nigerian government has announced a ban on the importation of vehicles and other goods overland in a bid to increase activity at its under-used ports. In recent years, thousands of cars have been imported into Nigeria from the neighbouring countries of Benin and Niger. Finance Minister Adamu Ciroma said the importation of electricity generators […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Sunday HARD on the heels of a South African cholera epidemic which has killed nearly 60 people, more than 50 have died from the disease and 2_400 fallen ill in the Mozambican capital Maputo, according to news reports. Hospitals in the capital were admitting between 40 and 50 new cholera patients […]
SOUTH Africa’s youngest Aids activist, 11-year-old Aids sufferer Nkosi Johnson, remains in a critical condition at home in Johannesburg. His foster mother Gail Johnson said Nkosi, who suffered three severe seizures at the weekend, was still semi-comatose. Doctors discovered Nkosi suffered brain damage after finding a layer of damaged tissue. Nkosi was initially given nine […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Abidjan | Monday AN attempted coup d’etat was underway early on Monday in the Ivory Coast, with heavy fighting wracking the countrys economic capital as loyalist forces attempted to overpower mutinous troops who had seized the television station. No toll from the fighting is immediately available and the situation on the ground remains […]
A GANG of cash heist gangsters risked their lives for a mere R2 each after pension payout security guards foiled an ambush. The 10 heavily armed gangsters used three stolen vehicles to ambush a convoy of armoured vans belonging to Empilweni Pension Payout Services between Witbank and Siyabuswa, but the armoured van ferrying the money […]
REPORTS of a gold strike in Mali by Hyundai Corp. have sent the stock price of the Hyundai Group’s trading arm soaring despite the company’s efforts to downplay exuberance. Hyundai confirmed it had discovered gold in the west African state, but in a statement to the Korea Stock Exchange, denied rumours that the find contained […]
A NIGERIAN minister accused of leaving a pregnant woman to die by the roadside after a fatal collision involving his convoy has gone abroad, his office said, as the couple who died were buried. Nigeria’s minister for Africa, Dapo Sarumi, left this week for an undisclosed destination for medical attention”. Critics suggested his health concerns […]
BRENTON WILLIAMS and SIZWE SAMAYENDE, Jeffreys Bay | Monday ITS not great white sharks or even killer whales that terrify Jefferys Bays only black surfer – its racist white tourists. Jackson Jacko Pennington is still shaken after a group of aggressive white Northern Cape tourists confronted him on one of Jefferys Bays most popular beaches […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Monday TOP officials of state arms agency Armscor have gone into a huddle in Pretoria to discuss weekend reports of pending damages suits totalling more than R2bn – and accompanying allegations of shady deals at the highest levels. This follows reports at the weekend that two disgruntled military hardware companies were […]