A SLICK of oil has been sighted around 9km off the Cape west coast, near the spot where the bulk carrier Treasure sank earlier in the day. Marine officials said the pear-shaped slick, about 5km by 7km, was spotted around noon by Kuswag VII, the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism’s oil pollution patrol aircraft. […]
THE death toll from the explosion of a fuel pipeline in southern Nigeria this week has risen to 28. The newspaper The Vanguard said on Friday that those who died were believed to have been siphoning off fuel from the duct operated by the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) when the pipeline exploded into flames […]
THE Mozambican government has launched an investigation into allegations that South African authorities have been repatriating Mozambican miners infected with HIV/Aids. Deputy national health director Avertino Barreto said there are no confirmed cases of deportations of HIV-infected Mozambican miners. Mozambican migrant representatives reported recently that Mozambican workers, mostly miners, are being repatriated if they are […]
A HEART foundation set up by African Footballer of the Year Nigeria’s Nwankwo Kanu has realised around 70 million naira ($700000) in donations. The money was raised at the launching here on Wednesday attended by five state governors, including that of Lagos Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the proceeds will be used to build five hospitals […]
ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Saturday 7.35pm. A LAST-ditch effort sparked by a controversial Joost van der Westhuizen try could not see the Springboks to victory over a rock-solid England who triumphed 22-27 at the Free State Stadium on Saturday. Twenty-one year old England flyhalf and man-of-the-match Jonny Wilkinson was sublime, scoring all 27 his […]
THIRTY people died when robbers turned their guns on passengers travelling in night buses in two separate incidents in southeast Nigeria this week. In both incidents, the robbers tried to stop the buses in the early hours of Thursday morning and opened fire when the drivers tried to drive off, police in Awka said. One […]
Parks Mankahlana CROSSFIRE The Mail & Guardian carried an assessment on the first year of Thabo Mbeki’s presidency by Professor Sipho Seepe in which he shows total disregard for facts, logic, history and the obligation among scientists, natural or social, to add empirical value to national discourse. In his assessment of the presidency, Seepe alleges […]
Robert Kirby LOOSE CANNON It makes me extremely happy to announce that I am also suffering from deep clinical depression. What’s more I didn’t own a shade of the material assets acquired by Hansie Cronje during the period in which I became so deeply clinically depressed. I got my deep clinical depression without any help […]
Khadija Magardie Various refugee organisations around South Africa used this year’s Africa Refugee Day to slam aspects of new refugee legislation as “irresponsible”. At gatherings and celebrations countrywide to commemorate June 20 – a day declared by the United Nations and the Organisation of African Unity to highlight the plight of the continent’s refugees – […]
Merryman Kunene In the aftermath of Bafana Bafana’s poor showing at the Nike Cup in the United States recently, the issue of finding a new national team – and coach – is back in the spotlight. By the end of the 2000 African Cup of Nations campaign in Ghana and Nigeria, South Africa had been […]