Yearly Archives: 2001

TWO eastern Free State men will appear in the Tweeling Magistrate’s Court on Thursday in connection with the rape of their 14-month-old niece earlier in the week, police said. Sergeant Loraine Kalp on Wednesday said the men, 34 and 37, were arrested on Tuesday after the mother found the baby crying and saw blood on […]

A MINE worker at the Rustenburg Platinum Mines in the North West was killed when he slipped and fell down a shaft on Tuesday, bringing the number of employees killed to three in less than a week. Company representative Mike Mtakati said on Wednesday that 27-year-old crane driver Julias Ndebele died last Friday when he […]

Johannesburg | Sunday DURING a week in which the vulnerability of South Africa’s children was highlighted by reports of child rape and dire poverty, the country celebrated its annual National Children’s Day festivities. Thousands of under-privileged children were invited by their respective provincial governments to attend all-day parties on Saturday, where they were entertained and […]

A deputy principal was granted R3 000 bail by the Engcobo Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday where he appeared on charges of rape and indecent assault of schoolgirls, SABC radio news reported. Siphiwo Maqume (36)is a deputy principal at the Entabeni Junior Secondary School in the Eastern Cape. He is alleged to have impregnated 20 schoolgirls […]

CHARMAINE PRETORIUS, Durban | Saturday GOVERNMENT proposed to increase the number of students in higher education by 20% over the medium to long term, but South Africa could no longer afford to produce thousands of students for the international labour market, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Friday. Manuel was speaking at a University of […]

PAUL KIRK, Durban | Friday ONE of the largest contracts awarded in South Africa’s R60-billion arms deal may be challenged in court by an Italian aeronautics company that lost out to a British contender – after then-defence minister Joe Modise intervened to change the tender evaluation criteria in mid-course. Henk Viljoen, local attorney for the […]

A RETIRED colonel is training 6 000 militiamen in Nigeria’s central Taraba State, which is locked in a bloody inter-ethnic feud with neighbouring Benue State, Radio Nigeria reported on Thursday. The radio quoted the commander of the 232 battalion in Yola, Brigadier General D. Yaji, as having told Taraba State Governor Jolly Nyame that that […]

Cape Town | Saturday ALL eyes will be on Goudini Spa outside Worcester in the Western Cape on Saturday as premier Gerald Morkel and several of his MECs are expected to attend a meeting to drum up support for his line against the NNP’s national leadership. The balance of power in the ruling NNP/DP coalition […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki’s second book was launched at a glittering ceremony at Parliament on Wednesday night. Called ”Mahube — the Dawning of a Dawn”, it comprises a collection of speeches and pronouncements Mbeki has made over the years. The ceremony, in the historic Old Assembly dining room, was attended by leading figures in the political […]

THE Democratic Alliance has lost its bid to be represented on the City of Johannesburg’s mayoral committee, with a Johannesburg High Court ruling that the committee is legally constituted, The Star newspaper reported on Thursday. The DA brought the case against Johannesburg’s executive mayor Amos Masondo and the minister of provincial and local government. The […]