OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 1.00pm. DISGRACED former Premier Soccer League chief Joe Ndhlela is facing more trouble as the PSL is laying fraud charges against him for allegedly unlawful use of a PSL credit card after he was axed by the organisation. The Star reported on Thursday that that it is in posession […]
THE United Democratic Movement said on Thursday that the R74-million earmarked for a special government drive against HIV/Aids is inadequate. UDM health spokesman Manna Naidoo said that while the funds are welcome, the amount is not sufficient in the light of the endemic proportions of the problem in South Africa. He is also concerned about […]
ETHIOPIA said it was ready to end its war with Eritrea ”today” but that it would keep troops on Eritrean soil until it received guarantees over redeployment. ”As far as Ethiopia is concerned, the war is over today,” Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told a meeting with diplomats in the Ethiopian capital. ”Our troops will […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 11.20am. THE rand backtracked on some of its gains on Thursday, slipping briefly above the R7 to a dollar mark. By late afternoon it was trading just short of the mark at R6,99 to the US currency. Analysts said its rally, which began on Monday, has been buoyed by gains […]
SOKOTO state in northern Nigeria has introduced the Sharia, the Islamic legal code, becoming the second state in the country to introduce the controversial law. Unlike in Zamfara State, which blazed the trail in introducing Sharia with many fanfares earlier in the year, there was no ceremony to mark the one in the predominantly-Muslim Sokoto […]
OIL giant Royal Dutch Shell said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell its Australian-based coal business to Anglo American for between $850-million and $900-million in cash. The final price is dependent on balance sheet adjustments on completion of the deal, Shell said in a statement, adding that it expects to finalise the agreement by […]
A HIGHER-than-permitted amount of radioactive liquid material was pumped into a South African river last year, the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation has admitted. The liquid was released from the corporation’s Pelindaba facility, 30 kilometres west of the capital Pretoria, into the Crocodile River, the corporation said in a statement. The incident was the result […]
A CHEWABLE African shrub used by Somali gunmen fighting US troops in Mogadishu is posing concerns for US East Coast federal officials who believe it may offer the latest cheap amphetamine high. Khat — also known as “qat” — is traditionally used as a mild stimulant in African and some Middle Eastern countries. But US […]
SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Wednesday 5.15pm. THE Zimbabwe government has denied claims by war veterans’ leader Chenjerai Hitler Hunzvi that the authorities have begun distributing 187 farms from whites to landless blacks. Presidential spokesman George Charamba said that war veterans, who have been leading a campaign of white farm occupations in Zimbabwe, have merely identified […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 11.20am. CELLULAR service provider MTN will no longer sponsor the Charity Spectacular football tournamnt following a decision by Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates not play in the event. The two clubs — who landed a R120-million sponsorship deal with rival cellular company Vodacom last week — have contract clauses […]