ISLAMIC extremists massacred 14 members of the same family overnight after attacking their home in north-western Algeria as they slept. The assailants raided the house of an agricultural worker in the isolated hamlet of Ouled Amrane, and killed six women, four children and four men, setting about them with axes and knives as well as […]
BRITISH airline Virgin Atlantic is set to take a major chunk of the lucrative Lagos-London route currently dominated by British Airways (BA). Virgin Atlantic CEO Richard Branson said the Nigerian aviation authorities have already approved the airline’s proposal to fly the route. He said BA’s dominance of the lucrative route was not to the advantage […]
A NORTHERN Province schoolteacher accused of hijacking a newlywed American couple and their driver has been granted R7 000 bail. His seven co-accused, who include another teacher from Skukuza High School, were remanded in custody. Daniel Mashele, 35, is accused of the hijacking and robbery of American newlyweds Scott and Lesley Newman and their South […]
SOUTH Africa has to tighten immigration laws to discourage false asylum claims and marriages of convenience, says Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Some 35% of the 75 000 asylum seekers currently in the country were not genuine, he said, and current migration laws are so badly abused that 60% of migration applications were by spouses […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT with AFRICA EYE NEWS SERVICE and AFP, Johannesburg | Wednesday IN two separate rape cases, an Mpumalanga man has been arrested for raping his eight-year-old daughter for the past two weeks, while a pregnant girl who was raped by Angolan government soldiers at the weekend has died from her injuries. The man from […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Wednesday MPUMALANGA is sitting on a race war time bomb where farm labourers still live like slaves, are denied basic health care and are treated worse than mechanical implements such as tractors, the leading political parties in the province have warned. The situation is so bad in some areas that racial […]
A DIVING safari company has hunted and killed a suspected man-eating shark off Dar es Salaam’s main beach in Tanzania after it allegedly ate five people. The pregnant 400kg shark, believed to be responsible for the death of a 28-year-old student last week, was killed after “a hell of pursuit” off the popular Coco Beach. […]
SOWETO councillor Trevor Ngwane will protest against globalisation in the US and Canada later this month when he speaks in the Challenging Globalisation at Grassroots campaign. The month-long campaign is being driven by Global-South, a movement against corporate globalisation, and aims to generate solidarity for social justice movements in South Africa and Bolivia. The tour […]
NIGERIA’S second stock exchange market has been switched on in Abuja for a trial run, but no company was listed at its inauguration. The automated globalised trading system was used for mock trading in shares. Nigeria already has one stock exchange in Lagos, the country’s economic capital. It is hoped that the Abuja stock exchange […]
REUTERS, Cape Town | Wednesday RAPE in South Africa is massively under-reported, according to the annual report of the country’s Medical Research Council, with victimisation by the rapist or his friends and the likelihood of dismissive treatment by the police playing a major role. ”We found 1 _300 completed rapes per 100 000 women in […]