A 17-year-old youth admitted in the Circuit Court in Port Alfred to stabbing Cape Town businesswoman Brenda Fairhead in the chest after kidnapping her and her daughter, 11, in Jnauary. According to earlier trial evidence, the stabbing caused Fairhead’s death. The youth also testified that he saw Zolani Tom strangling Fairhead’s 11-year-old daughter, Kia. Legal […]
BANKING group Stanbic is to sell its entire holding of 26658-million shares in Liberty International to The British Land Company. The sale, at 550p per share, is worth around R1,5-billion and comprises about 8,5% of Liberty International’s issued share capital. Stanbic said it does not consider the shares a core asset and the sale will […]
REBEL activity around the town of Makeni in western Sierra Leone has triggered a huge exodus of wounded civilians. Many of those seen fleeing have gunshot wounds, most of them from light arms fire, indicating that the wounds were the result of rebel activity and not rebel-government fighting. Military sources said another large party had […]
SOUTH Africa’s foreign affairs department is to undergo a major shake-up because most senior positions are occupied by white males, the director general of the department, Sipho Pityana, said on Monday. “This is crunch time,” Pityana told journalists during a briefing on the activities of his department. He said he would not shy away from […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Addis Ababa | Monday 9.45am. ETHIOPIAN forces will only leave their positions in Eritrea if they are replaced by an international peacekeeping force, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said at the weekend. At the same time, Eritrea said intensive artillery exchanges with Ethiopian forces began just after dawn on Monday on the southern desert […]
Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said South Africa might buy weapons from the People’s Republic of China. Speaking during his visit to China, Lekota said South Africa wanted to strengthen military ties with China. Lekota also said South Africa would sell weapons to China after the country had shown an interest in South African manufactured arms. […]
THE police prohibited immigrants unit intends questioning the most powerful civil servant in Mpumalanga, director general Coleman Nyathi, on Monday after discovering that vital documentary records are missing from his Home Affairs files. The probe follows reports that Nyathi might be an illegal Zimbabwean migrant to South Africa who lied about his nationality to qualify […]
ZOLANI Petelo, looking more muscular than usual, scored an impressive powerhouse victory over a very game Mickey Cantwell in Kent on Friday night. He thereby retained his IBF straw-weight world title for the fifth time. Cantwell made it clear from the opening bell that he had come to fight, unlike his compatriot Peter Culshaw who […]
FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Clive Barker slammed South Africa after a humiliating four-goal drubbing by hosts United States in the Nike Cup football tournament at the weekend. “We have been living in a dream world,” Barker said. “It is all very well defeating teams like Lesotho and Mauritius and believing we are super stars. “The […]
HICHAM Zerouali scored in the 60th minute to give Morocco a 1-0 win over Jamaica on Sunday, earning his side a place in the final of the Hassan II tournament. In front of 70000 fans in Casablanca, Zerouali made the most of a fine cross by Salaheddine Bassir to rocket in a 15-metre strike and […]