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 […]
THE United States has offered rewards of up to $5m for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Rwandan war crimes indictees who are still at large. The State Departments Richard Boucher said the rewards would be given for information that results in the “transportation” of indictees to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda […]
ALAN RAYBOULD, Abidjan | Monday FORCES loyal to the Ivory Coast government have regained control of the state radio headquarters in central Abidjan after dissident soldiers who had seized it overnight in an apparent coup bid left without a fight, local residents said. ”The (paramilitary) gendarmes just went in. There was no fighting,” a man […]
A SEVEN-year-old girl has become the second British tourist to die in South Africa in the past week after being swept over the Lisbon falls in Graskop, Mpumalanga. The girl and her mother, 32, were viewing the falls when the child slipped into the water. The mother tried to hold onto her daughter, but both […]
JAPANESE Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has arrived in Johannesburg for a six-day trip of sub-Saharan Africa, the first by a serving Japanese premier. South African Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma greeted the premier as he stepped off the Japan Airlines plane. Mori will visit South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya during the trip, which will include […]
NIGERIA’S state carrier has resumed direct flights to London after a six-year gap caused by the airlines debts. A Nigeria Airways official said the company would operate twice-weekly flights on the profitable Lagos-London route with a DC-10 aircraft leased from a French company. Nigeria Airways sought the help of British Airways to run the Lagos-London […]
THE death toll on South Africas roads since the summer holidays began on December 1 has reached 824 – and road safety campaign, Arrive Alive, expects traffic to peak on the country’s roads this weekend as inland holidaymakers return home to start the new working year on Monday. Arrive Alive said speeding, drunk driving, driver […]
THE Johannesburg Regional Court has granted R10_000 bail to a doctor accused of raping his daughter, so he could continue assisting patients on an Aids drug programme. The doctor, who allegedly raped his daughter a month before her 16th birthday, was in custody for two months. Defence attorney Errol Goss alleged the girl had laid […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Paris | Sunday AN international rescue operation is afoot in Cameroon to save fewer than ten black rhinos, the last survivors from herds of thousands wiped out by poachers across West Africa over the past two decades. “It is necessary, in fact, to act immediately, because this rhinoceros could disappear very soon,” said […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday TWO military hardware companies are planning to sue South African arms manufacturer Armscor for millions of dollars in separate cases – which, they allege, implicate several former and current top-ranking defence officials in high-level corruption. E-tv news reported that Quantam International Services Limited, with corporate offices in the British Virgin […]