AN Eastern Cape farmer has been diagnosed with the deadly and contagious Congo Fever. An intensive program has been launched in the province to prevent the spread of the disease. The farmer, Francois Retief, 51, is in a critical condition and is being treated in strict isolation. He was initially admitted to hospital at Graaff-Reinet […]

TEN years to the day after he announced Nelson Mandela would be freed from prison and the African National Congress and other organisations opposing apartheid would be unbanned, F W de Klerk is a happy man. “I look back and I say: ‘No regrets,’” he said on Wednesday in an interview with Cape Talk radio […]

EASTERN Cape doctor Costa Gazi has been fined R1000 for criticising former health minister Nkosazana Zuma over the government’s refusal to issue the anti-AIDS drug AZT to infected pregnant women. The health department disciplinary committee in the Eastern Cape also warned Gazi of “serious action” should he repeat the criticism. Gazi told an East London-based […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Abidjan | Thursday 7.30pm. THE Cte d’Ivoire’s national soccer squad were released from a military camp outside Yamoussoukro on Thursday after being held since their defeat in the African Nations Cup. The players, who were detained at the Zambakro “School for the Maintenance of Peace,” arrived late afternoon in Abidjan, where they are […]

THE case against Dudu Nkosi, the lover of alleged cash-heist kingpin Collin Chauke, was postponed on Thursday to allow the State to prove she used her sister’s alleged death to make false insurance claims. The Nelspruit Regional Court postponed its hearing against Nkosi to next Wednesday, February 9, to allow the State to call witnesses […]

JOHANNESBURG police raided a brothel in the city’s northern suburbs on Wednesday night and arrested 44 illegal immigrants working as prostitutes. Thai, Russian, Bulgarian and Zambian employees of The Ranch in Rivonia Road were taken into custody. The prostitutes apparently did not have work permits. The owner was also arrested on various charges including the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday 4.15pm. THE Southern African Develpment Community has warned that at least 200 people are dying of hunger each day in Angola, where fighting has disrupted farming activities. “An escalation in civil strife has made an already precarious food situation even worse,” the SADC said in a report released this week. […]

A FIRE broke out in the mountains above Cape Town’s plush Llandudno suburb on Wednesday afternoon, but was quickly bought under control. About six hectares of mountainside was burnt in the Suikerbossie area, but no property was threatened and all roads remained open, South Peninsula nunicipality officials said. Three helicopters were used to waterbomb the […]

FORMULA One boss Eddie Jordan on Wednesday called for Africa to be put back on the grand prix calendar. The last race on African soil was the South African Grand Prix in 1993 on the Kyalami circuit and Jordan insists it is time Africa hosted another race. “We should have and must strive earnestly to […]

THE Cte d’Ivoire’s football team is expected to be released on Wednesday after being held at a military camp outside Yamoussoukro after their defeat in the African Nations Cup, star footballer Basile Boli said. Boli, a former French player of Ivorian descent, planned to visit the Zambakro camp but cancelled his trip after receiving a […]