SOUTH A BOLIVIAN man arrested this week for drug smuggling has passed 20 of the “cocaine bullets” detected in his stomach, but police suspect the 31-year-old man has at least another 60 of the foreign objects in his stomach. The Bolivian apparently swallowed up to 80 condoms filled with cocaine before attempting to pass through […]
A 30-YEAR-old man has been sentenced to 229 years in prison by the Pretoria Regional Court after he pleaded guilty to 23 charges, including rape, attempted rape, indecent assault, armed robbery and the illegal possession of a firearm. Andre Gregory Mohammed admitted to attacking his victims at or near their homes during the day in […]
STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Friday RETIRED Judge Edwin King, who is heading a commission probing corruption in South African cricket, has doubts about whether disgraced cricket captain Hansie Cronje has come clean about his illicit involvement with bookmakers. King’s interim report was made public on Friday, two weeks after it was handed over to […]
FIFTY Sudanese school children died when a wooden ferry capsized in the fast-flowing Blue Nile River in eastern Sudan this week. The overloaded ferry capsized in midstream, killing 50 pupils between the ages of 10 to 17. The small wooden craft was overloaded with 30 bags of sweet potatoes and 10 bags of sorghum in […]
THE Kenyan government has introduced a bill to target corruption and economic crimes in an effort to appease the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The introduction of the bill was a key condition for the resumption of IMF lending, suspended three years ago on the grounds of rampant official corruption and economic mismanagement. Meanwhile, Kenyan members […]
AT least 45 people were killed when a bus plunged off a bridge in eastern Kenya on Thursday night. About 27 people survived the accident, the second transport disaster to hit Kenya in a week, but the death toll was expected to rise to at least 50. The bus, with an official capacity of 65, […]
FORMER South African president Nelson Mandela was holding intensive talks in Tanzania in a last-minute bid to bridge deep gaps among Burundi’s warring political factions. With only one day left before a historic power-sharing deal is due to be signed, he was pressing all sides to overcome their differences. Tanzanian officials in Arusha said Mandela […]
NAMIBIAN security forces have arrested 33 Angolans suspected of being agents of the rebel Unita movement since the beginning of the year, says Namibian Police Chief Inspector Moses Hawanga. The arrests took place in a series of security ”clean-up” operations in the Kavango region near the Angolan border where police claim more than 50 civilians […]
<b>Review: The Bridge</b>
habit’ Melinda Ferguson Oliver Christensen is 19 years old. At 17 he was hardened crack addict, a dealer and a thief. He was caught selling drugs at school. Faced with a heavy jail sentence, he found his way out of a mire of darkness. This is his story: I always wanted to do forbidden things. […]