Johannesburg | Thursday THE government was working to ensure the South African Post Office’s ”honour” was restored, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said on Wednesday. Speaking in the National Assembly, she said the investigation into claims of corruption within the Post Office may take some time, but the department would make sure that no-one involved escaped. […]

NINE out of 10 Americans think the United States should take military action against those it holds responsible for the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington, and 78% expect ”another terrorist attack,” according to an opinion poll released on Monday. The poll of 1 216 Americans, conducted for CBS Television and The New […]

SOUTH African stocks started trade slightly firmer on Wednesday thanks to gains in Anglo American and Richemont, but weakness in synthetic fuel producer Sasol capped the gains. At 0730 GMT, the benchmark all-share index was 0,39% or 30,5 points higher at 7,804.8, taking its lead from the US markets which ended higher for a second […]

COMEDIAN Mark Banks’ aggression towards a policeman offering to drive him home led to an arrest for drunken driving, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court heard on Wednesday. Banks pleaded not guilty to the main charge of drunken driving as well as not guilty to an alternative charge of driving with a blood-alcohol count of 0,13%. […]

OFFICIALS and businessmen from Houston, Texas, and Zarzis port on Tunisia’s southeast Mediterranean coast have signed an agreement to establish sea trade links, officials said in Tunis on Monday. Zarzis is an economic free zone set up in 1993 to service foreign companies engaged totally in the export business, while the city in the southern […]

FOUR people were killed at the weekend in a machete attack by rebels in the southern Angolan village of Katongo, Roman Catholic radio Ecclesia reported. The attackers, who identified themselves as rebels from the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita), surprised the victims at a bottle store in Cuanza-Sul province, the radio […]

A CONSORTIUM of Canadian and South African companies, Heritage Oil and Gas and Energy Africa, are to start oil exploration in the Ugandan Rift Valley in March, officials said on Sunday. Uganda’s Commissioner of Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation Reuben Kashambuzi said the consortium had adopted the name Eagle Drill, in which each of the two […]

Cape Town | Wednesday GLOBAL warming will cause summer rainfall in some areas of South Africa to decrease by up to 25% over the next 50 to 100 years and kill off dozens of species of plants, a report published on Tuesday warned. The report, entitled “The heat is on” and funded by the World […]

SOUTH African Nick Rowe has been discovered dead amongst the rubble of the World Trade Centre, according to a statement released on Thursday by the Department of Foreign Affairs. Rowe did not work in the World Trade Centre, but at the time of the attack was making a presentation to employees of Canter Fitzgerald in […]