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/ 30 October 2005
Huberte Rupert, wife of industrialist Anton Rupert, died in Stellenbosch on Friday night, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported. Rupert died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 86 following a long illness, the broadcaster quoted her son, Johann, as saying.
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/ 30 October 2005
Huberte Rupert, wife of industrialist Anton Rupert, died in Stellenbosch on Friday night, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported. Rupert died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 86 following a long illness, the broadcaster quoted her son, Johann, as saying.
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/ 21 October 2005
National Intelligence Agency (NIA) director general Billy Masetlha has been suspended by Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils pending the outcome of an inquiry. Kasrils has also suspended two other senior NIA officials for allegedly placing businessman Saki Macozoma under illegal surveillance.
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/ 20 October 2005
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African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma on Wednesday condemned party members for the first time for burning T-shirts bearing the face of President Thabo Mbeki, South African Broadcasting Corporation television news reported.
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/ 19 October 2005
A journalist working for the British newspaper <i>The Guardian</i> is missing, believed kidnapped, in Iraq, the daily said on Wednesday. Rory Carroll, a 33-year-old Irishman, was on assignment in Baghdad when he disappeared, according to a statement from the newspaper, which said he could have been kidnapped.
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/ 13 October 2005
Zimbabwean and South African parliamentary committees have agreed visas for travel between the two countries should be scrapped, Zimbabwe’s Herald Online reported on Thursday. It said the portfolio committee on home affairs and defence from the two countries met in Harare on Wednesday.
About 1 400 people were killed by a mudslide in the Guatemalan highland village of Panabaj that had been triggered by torrential rains from Hurricane Stan, Reuters reported on Saturday. The latest figure would bring to almost 2 000 the total number of people killed by the storm.
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/ 28 September 2005
Mining magnate Brett Kebble was assassinated, one of his business partners said on Wednesday. Andile Nkuhlu was one of a group of people expecting Kebble for dinner on Tuesday night. Kebble was shot dead on his way there. "This was pure assassination. There is no doubt about it," Nkuhlu said.
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/ 27 September 2005
A man was killed when a tree fell on top of him during high winds on Monday night at Zevenfontein informal settlement, north of Johannesburg. Monday night also saw large areas of Gauteng plunged into darkness and roofs flying off houses. Johannesburg emergency services received about 1 500 emergency calls.
Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota and KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sibusiso Ndebele are taking the <i>City Press</i> newspaper to court over an article that alleged they were apartheid spies. "This is after the <i>City Press</i> newspaper refused to apologise and retract in full its report of August 7 2005," Lekota said on Monday evening.