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AFRICAN EYE NEWS SERVICE, Lydenburg | Wednesday A MAN who waged a single-handed war of terror on Mpumalanga farmers last month, saying he wanted to be “president of his own kingdom”, has been declared a Presidential mental patient. Jan Jack Mnisi, a dreadlocked Rastafarian, was declared a Presidential patient in the Lydenburg Magistrate’s Court and […]
AFRICAN EYE NEWS SERVICE, Mbabane | Wednesday SWAZILAND has returned to work after the kingdom’s most sacred annual holiday, the Umhlanga Reed Dance, with the news that absolute monarch King Mswati III would not be taking an eighth wife this year. The reed dance, an annual fertility pageant at which the king is expected to […]
TWO men have been arrested in Louis Trichardt afternoon for allegedly painting a 14-year-old girl white, Northern Province police said. The men, a manager from the town’s Pep Store and one of his workers, accused the girl, from a nearby village, of stealing, Senior Superintendent Phutti Setati said in a statement. “The girl was in […]
AFRICAN EYE NEWS SERVICE, Blantyre | Wednesday MALAWI has appealed to the World Bank and other international donors for US$25m to help resettle an estimated 21 000 landless villagers as the core of its land redistribution programme. Malawi’s land ministry principal secretary Henry Juwa said the country urgently needed to purchase 14 000 ha of […]
TWO policemen and an airman have been arrested in connection with raping a teenaged girl and possibly filming it during a drinking binge in Northern Province six months ago. Constables Cornelius Lourens, 30, and Nicholas Wolmarans, 31, of Hoedspruit police station and Corporal Carl Joubert, 29, of Hoedspruit air base were not asked to plead […]
GLOBALISATION has become a matter of priority for Africa, with the continent needing to build capacity in the information technology sector, says Telecommunications and Broadcasting Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri. Speaking at the opening of the “Making IT work for Africa” summit at Sun City, Matsepe-Casaburri said in the past so-called industrial world, globalisation meant Africa’s isolation […]
TELLUMAT, a South African communications and defence electronics company, has been awarded a contract by Thomson-CSF NCS France to provide integrated identification systems for the South African Navy. The integrated identification friend or foe (IFF) systems will be fitted to four MEKO A-200 patrol corvettes that the navy is to acquire as part of the […]
THREE Northern Province teenagers have appeared in court in connection with taking turns to rape one of their girlfriends. Jabu Javas Mahlangu and Sam Masemola, both 18, as well as a 17-year-old minor, are from Rondtebos village in Nebo and were arrested they allegedly lured the minor’s girlfriend into mountains and raped her. Police said […]
THE government is in negotiations with the World Bank about taking an initial loan of about US$200m to help revamp public hospitals, a local newspaper has reported. In all, the proposed hospital revitalisation programme will cost $US270m, with the government providing the other US$70m. The World Bank will not only provide financial backing but will […]