POLICE have arrested 13 veterans of Zimbabwe’s liberation war for blocking highway traffic with police barriers in the north-eastern Mashonaland province, authorities reported. According to the white farmers union, the CFU, the veterans started demonstrating and causing problems in some 20 farms in the region. “They were asking for a bigger share of land in […]
TWO Defence Force employees are being treated for shrapnel wounds after a grass fire caused an explosion at an ammunition dump at the Generaal de la Rey training area near Potchefstroom, the SANDF said. Various ammunition types, including heavy calibre ammunition, mortars and small ammunition types, which were stored in the magazine, exploded due to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT and REUTERS, Johannesburg | Tuesday BRITAIN has warned Liberian authorities that their detention of four television journalists – including South African Gugu Radebe – on spying charges has put the west African state on a collision course with the international community. Foreign Office minister Peter Hain called for the immediate release of the […]
THE first tollgate has been opened at Moamba, on the Mozambican leg of the Maputo corridor toll road, Trevor Jackson, chief executive officer of Trans African Concessions (Trac) announced. The Moamba toll is the fourth of five planned tollgates that stretches along the N4 between Gauteng and Maputo. Jackson said that work is progressing ahead […]
DEPARTMENT of Correctional Services representative Russel Mamabolo has been fined R2000, or six months’ imprisonment, after telling a newspaper a judge had erred in granting bail to Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leader Eugene Terre’Blanche. Pretoria High Court judge Johan Els found Mamabolo guilty of contempt of court, and suspended another six months in jail for three […]
A LANDMINE blast has killed a farm worker and injured 47 others, 10 critically, in north-eastern Namibia on the border with Angola, The Namibian newspaper has reported. The explosion occurred on a cotton farm near Omega when a truck carrying farm workers detonated an anti-tank mine planted in the middle of the road by suspected […]
THE United States has ordered two diplomats from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) expelled from the country in retaliation for the expulsion last week by Kinshasa of two US foreign service officers, a senior State Department official said. ”We have notified the DRC embassy that two Congolese diplomats have been declared persona non grata,” […]
AFP, Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe | Tuesday ZIMBABWEAN police have burned down huts and brick houses built by liberation war veterans who occupied a white-owned farm just south of the capital – but the veterans have vowed to stay on the land. A reporter said dwellings erected by the veterans for about 100 black Zimbabweans on the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday HUMAN rights organisations have expressed reservations about a proposed new anti-terrorism law which allows for terrorism suspects to be detained without trial for up to 14 days, calling it “reminiscent of apartheid-era security legislation.” But Justice Minister Penuell Maduna says he’d like to see the draft Anti-Terrorism Bill, which was […]
THE Umtata High Court granted a R2m forfeiture order to the Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) against a Lusikisiki prosecutor alleged involved in defrauding the Bank of Transkei of R4.6m. National Director of Public Prosecutions spokesperson Sipho Ngwena said that the AFU had the South African Police Service’s outstanding investigation to thank. In 1995 the sum […]