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 […]
A SOUTH African microbiologist jetted off to Siberia at the weekend on a mission that sounds like it’s straight out of a Hollywood sci-fi movie. Frank T. Robb plans to capture as many ‘extremophile’ microbes as he can from Siberia’s volcanic geysers and sulphur pits before shooting them into space in rockets. Once in space, […]
AFP, Arusha, Tanzania | Tuesday ETHNIC Hutu rebels have killed 27 military cadets and five civilians in an ambush near Bujumbura, on the eve of renewed talks aimed at finalising an accord to end seven years of civil war in Burundi. A military source said the cadets had been returning to the capital from the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 government could spend more than R800m on four new maritime patrol helicopters in addition to the country’s R30bn arms package, a local newspaper reported. The Cabinet, the paper said, will decide whether Armscor will be given the go ahead to finalise a helicopter purchase with British arms marker GKN Westland or possibly re-issue the […]
SWAZILAND’S 32-year-old King Mswati III has secretly wed his seventh wife, an 18-year-old woman who became the centre of controversy when a newspaper labelled her a “dropout”. Mswati married Liphovela Senteni Masango, selected at last year’s annual ritual in which maidens dance for him, in a traditional ceremony last week. Masango was the centre of […]
IN an attempt to put to rest a row last month over French comments on forthcoming elections, Ivory Coast’s army ruler, General Robert Guei, praised former colonial power France as the most loyal of friends. “Amongst our friends, right at the front, let us mention France, the most loyal of the loyal, which has not […]