ZIMBABWE’s parliamentary elections are still scheduled for March and will not be postponed to June as a government minister intimated last month, President Robert Mugabe said on Tuesday night. ”Elections will be held in March. We have not as government made a decision to postpone elections,” the official Herald newspaper quoted Mugabe as saying. Government […]
THE road death toll since December 1 has rocketed to 834 as motorists continue to stream home from their holiday destinations, Arrive Alive said on Wednesday morning. In a statement it said that in the 587 accidents, 374 of the dead were passengers, 243 were pedestrians and 217 were drivers. Figures show that KwaZulu-Natal recorded […]
THREE French tourists, including two children, were murdered by gunmen dressed in uniforms on Monday on the road between Andara and Bagani about 40 kilometres west of Rundu in Namibia. SABC radio news said on Tuesday that the gunmen opened fire on a minibus on the same road shortly before the attack on the tourists. […]
FOUR more bodies have been found in the hold of a Liberian-registered cargo ship, the Karonga, which was unloading 8500 tons of cocoa in the port of Ilheus, bringing the total of dead stowaways to 10. The bodies of six other stowaways, believed to be Africans traveling without papers, were found on Friday on the […]
ENGLAND all-rounder Andrew Flintoff could miss the remainder of the tour of South Africa after fracturing his left foot during the second day of the fourth test on Monday. “He has a fracture of the second metacarple of his left foot,” said team physio Dean Conway. “He will definitely not bowl again in this test […]
THE leader of the political opposition in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Etienne Tshisekedi, held talks on Monday with expatriate Congolese groups in South Africa on one of his first trips outside the DRC in years. Tshisekedi, a long-time foe of the late Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko and his successor Laurent Kabila, fielded questions from […]
THE death toll on South African roads since the beginning of December passed the 800 mark on Tuesday, Arrive Alive said in a statement in Pretoria. The traffic safety campaign said 810 lives have been lost in 566 accidents. Figures show that KwaZulu-Natal recorded the highest death toll with 122 fatalities. The death toll in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Windhoek | Tuesday 3.00pm. TWO French children were shot dead and another French national killed when men in combat gear attacked tourist vehicles in Namibia, wounding at least two other people, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. The Namibian government is blaming Angolan rebel group Unita for the attacks. The parents of the children […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 4.40pm. SOUTH Africa ended their innings on 421 all out on Tuesday, sending an embattled England in to bat the final over of the day on the third day of the fourth test at Newlands. Daryl Cullinan, who gave the crowds a sterling batting performance, joined Gary Kirsten with […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | day 11.00m. MOZAMBIQUE’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that December’s presidential and general elections were in order, dismissing allegations of fraud by the country’s main opposition Renamo party. The court’s judgement was broadcast live on state radio and television after it had investigated a suit by Renamo, which has claimed fraud […]