A TRAIN derailed in western Kenya, killing at least seven people and injuring 38 others, railway officials said. ”About seven people have died but there may be more,” said Eric Kathanga, public relations officer for the Kenya Railways Corporation. Kathanga said the train had come off the rails near Lela, a halt station about 400km […]
SOUTH Africa and Mozambique have pledged to continue working together to overcome their common security problems, after recent joint operations have uncovered large caches of firearms. “The challenges facing our two nations cannot be resolved as individual problems,” said SA Security Minister Steve Tshwete after handing over a donation of five police vehicles to Mozambique’s […]
SWAZILAND’S external debt rose by 16.7 percent in the last fiscal year, largely as a result of a currency slide, the Central Bank of Swaziland said. However, the country’s debt stock remained below “the critical levels”. “At the end of March 2000, external liabilities increased as the local currency continued to depreciate against the major […]
The Scorpions investigative unit made the biggest Mandrax bust ever in South Africa when they seized 1,9 million tablets worth R200 million in Johannesburg on Monday. Six people have been arrested after South African Revenue Services tipped off the police that they were suspicious about a container at Johannesburg’s City Deep depot . The tablets, […]
THE bulk purchase of the wrong kind of pencil has helped delay the final results of a national census in Kenya by some eight months, a local newspaper reported. According to the paper, when seven million people answered census questions last August, officials should have used soft HB pencils but were instead given harder H-grade […]
THE Police’s Public Order Policing unit has used stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse a crowd of matric students who held teachers and pupils hostage at the Ntsika Secondary School in Grahamstown. The 300 matric pupils had barred the entrance to the school to demand R5000 for their matric farewell party, and threw rocks […]
AN UNNAMED black empowerment company has snapped up a prime piece of council-owned Hyde Park land for R3,5m – the highest value online auction item yet sold in South Africa. The auction, which attracted 20 bids, attracted several overseas bidders, according to David Bloch, CEO of auctioneers SalesBid. The vacant property was one of several […]
ACQUISITIVE South African diamond group De Beers is likely to post a hefty 112 percent increase in earnings per share when it releases its interim results on Wednesday, analysts say. The world’s top gem producer and marketer is expected to benefit from record first-half sales of rough gems, which hit $3.52bn, a 44 percent rise […]
SHARES in Standard Bank Investment Corp (Stanbic) jumped more than five percent, close to year highs, as investors banked on the banking group posting strong increase in earnings when it announces results later this week. ”Stanbic’s up ahead of the results. We are looking for a pretty good figure, up around 26 percent,” said one […]
AN Antonov cargo plane has crashed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing all 21 passengers and six crew members on board, according to state television and sources at the national aviation authority. State television reported that 13 bodies had so far been recovered from the wreckage. The plane crashed on Saturday afternoon 63km […]