POLICE have arrested 170 members of two feuding Transkei clans after armed clashes on Sunday resulted in five deaths and five serious injuries. The feuding families, the Amevelas of Bizana and the Amadelas of Flagstaff, fought with rifles, handguns, home-made revolvers and knives in a dispute over the authority of the chief in Flagstaff, whom […]
MOZAMBIQUE’S Supreme Court has concluded investigations into allegations of electoral fraud filed last month by the country’s main opposition Renamo party, state radio reported on Monday. “The court has concluded its investigations and the final verdict will be announced Tuesday morning,” said Radio Mozambique. Renamo denounced last month’s presidential and parliamentary elections as fraudulent and […]
TWO more of the eight prisoners who escaped from an East London prison last week have been captured, leaving four still at large. The two captured on Monday were a man facing rape charges and a teenager facing house breaking charges. The men will appear in court tomorrow.
AN envoy for the president of the Organisation of African Unity on Tuesday held what he called ”extremely positive” talks with Cte d’Ivoire junta chief General Robert Guei, who took power last month. The OAU has condemned the coup that brought the former chief of general staff to power on December 24, when mutinous troops […]
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A FIRE that razed a warehouse in Durban on Saturday shortly after midnight caused damage estimated at R30-million. According to a statement, police suspect a misdirected flare landed on the building, causing the fire to break out at five minutes past midnight. The fire department responded promptly and the flames were doused. However, the paper […]
SIX African stowaways were found dead in the hold of a Liberian cargo ship that docked at the northern Brazil port of Ilheus on Friday. A seventh stowaway was found alive. The vessel had sailed from the Cote d’Ivoire capital Abidjan ten days ago with a cargo of cocoa. Police says the unidentifed men probably […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lome | Monday 12.25pm DEPOSED Cte d’Ivoire president Henri Konan Bedie left early on Monday for Paris from the Togo capital Lome, where he fled into exile last week, on board Togo’s presidential plane, witnesses said. Bedie, who was ousted in a coup on December 24, was accompanied by members of his family […]
AN engineer employed in Somalia by the aid agency CARE International was shot dead in an ambush on Sunday night while driving north of Mogadishu to check on rehabilitation projects. Shueb Mohamed Hussein was ambushed by members of the Abgal clan, who later returned his vehicle, marked with CARE International stickers. Abgal leader Imam Mohamud […]
AT least 160 children lost their parents at two beaches over the New Year’s weekend, police said in a radio report on Sunday. About 150 children, aged between two and 10, were at a shelter in Durban after losing contact with their parents on packed beaches, police told SABC public radio. In East London, police […]