AFRICAN EYE NEWS, Washington DC | Tuesday A GROUP of reformed Soweto teenagers – described as former “tsotsis” – have undergone an extensive empowerment programme in street-smart New York to learn how to help their peers. The 23 teens were trained by a New York helpline, Youthline, which uses teenagers to help youths caught up […]
AFRICAN EYE NEWS, Pietersburg | Tuesday A TEAM from the American space agency NASA has arrived at the Pietersburg International Airport in preparation for a science initiative to monitor the earth’s environment and atmosphere. Airport corporate relations manager Howard Khosa said a Washington University Convair 580 transport plane will soon be joined by two more […]
POLICE will today continue the search for the missing babies born out of an alleged incestuous relationship between Delmas brother and sister Heibrecht and Robert Fedder, after finding nothing on the farm Witklipbank near Delmas yesterday. The excavations at two sites on the farm formed part of the investigations in the case, in which police […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT AND REUTERS, Windhoek | Tuesday SOUTHERN African leaders have come out strongly in support of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s controversial land reform program, saying Britain should “honour its obligations” and provide resources for land reform in the embattled country. Ending two-day talks on the region’s simmering conflicts and tepid economic growth, the leaders […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH Africa’s entertainment community, still reeling from the death of singing legend Bles Bridges in a car accident earlier this year, has been shaken to its core by the death of Afrikaans comedian and TV star Tolla van der Merwe in a horrific car smash in Mpumalanga. Van der Merwe’s […]
REUTERS, Johannesburg | Tuesday South Africa-based African Gem Resources Ltd (Afgem) debuts on the Johannesburg bourse today and will use the capital it raises on developing its tanzanite mine and other projects. Afgem’s chief executive Mike Nunn said the gem stone miner, would use funds raised by free-floating 40 percent of the company to develop […]
THE SA Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) has thrown its weight behind beleaguered Springbok rugby coach Nick Mallett, dismissing a notion that he has been given an ultimatum to win the team’s next two games. Former Western Province coach, Harry Viljoen, was touted as Mallett’s possible successor in the wake of the Springboks’ four successive Test […]
TELEVISION entertainer Tolla van der Merwe was killed in a car accident near Belfast on Monday morning. Mpumalanga police said Van der Merwe died soon after being admitted to a Middelburg hospital at 7am. Television producer Ollie Viljoen and Afrikaans story-teller Koos Meyer were also seriously injured in the accident. Viljoen’s wife Estelle was killed […]
THE strong chance that South African Airways (SAA) will list on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and perhaps even on an international bourse, is seen as a good reason for Swiss Air to exercise its option to buy a further stake in the airline. Last November it bought a 20% stake in SAA for R1.4bn and […]
BANKING group Nedcor has shrugged off its failed bid to acquire larger rival Stanbic by reporting an increase in attributable income by 27% to R1.23bn for the first six months of the year. This translated into earnings per share increase of 25% from 415 cents to 517 cents. Nedcor was the only major South African […]