THE four accused in the Delmas incest case are to appear in court again today to face charges relating a 16-year relationship between a brother and sister. Robert Fedder, 40, and his 32-year old sister, Heibrecht Kamffer, were arrested in July for allegedly having had an incestuous relationship for the past 16 years. They have […]

THE RECENT grenade attack on the headquarters of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party was staged by an undercover police officer assigned to infiltrate the party, the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has alleged.”The evidence in our possession clearly points to the involvement of people in the highest offices of government in a […]

MASSIVE irregularities in Ghana’s voter register have appeared 10 weeks before general elections in the country, says electoral commissioner Kwado Afari Gyan. The lists include 1,5m people more than are eligible to votein the elections, scheduled for December 7. The commissioner said that while a population census held in Ghana earlier this year put the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENTS, Pietermaritzburg | Sunday SOUTH African agriculture authorities have expressed fears that the current outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in KwaZulu Natal could be as disastrous as “mad cow” disease was for Britain a few years ago after 16 magisterial districts were declared as foot-and-mouth disease control areas. Authorities have asked for more police and […]

THE government in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has seized the assets of two privately run radio and television networks, one week after barring them and eight others from broadcasting. Radio Tele Kin Malebo (RTKM) and Canal Kin 1 and 2 have been put under the management of the ministry of information. An official […]

IVORY Coast’s army ruler, General Robert Guei, has pledged to restore order after an attempt to assassinate him this week and said there was no reason to delay a presidential election due on October 22. ”The elections have already been postponed once…Let no one look for any underhand reasons to push them back again or […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nelspruit | Saturday TWO teachers, the owner of a Nelspruit panelbeating firm and five others have appeared in court at Mala in the Northern Province lowveld for robbing an American honeymoon couple and their tour guide outside the Kruger National Park earlier this month. The eight were arrested this week in a joint […]

CHARLES MANGWIRO, Quelimane | Friday THE number two leader in Mozambique’s powerful official opposition party, Renamo, has been axed for allegedly betraying party leader Afonso Dlhakama in return for financial reward from the ruling Frelimo party. Raul Domingos, Dlhakama’s right-hand man in Renamo, was formally expelled from the party by Renamo’s national council meeting in […]

BELINDA BERESFORD, Johannesburg | Friday IT’S a great mystery: why are South Africans, a group with a rich heritage of protest, not toyi-toying at the petrol pumps and causing chaos across the country, like the Europeans? After all, the British, renowned for their tolerance, have caused the Labour Party’s juggernaut to falter because of a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT AND AFP, Durban | Saturday THE outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the Kwazulu Natal Midlands – which has seen six countries imposing bans on South African meat and livestock – has spread to a neighbouring farm in spite of desperate efforts to contain the disease. A cow tested positive for the highly infectious […]