THE foreign ministry on Friday praised outgoing Russian president Boris Yeltsin, who resigned on Friday, for leaving a legacy of democracy. “Yeltsin leaves a legacy of democratic governance which is indicative of the progress that humanity is making,” the foreign ministry said in a statement. “President [Thabo] Mbeki has fond memories of his visit to […]

SUNDOWNS and Kaizer Chiefs will start their campaigns in Africa’s club tournaments with home games. Sundowns meet either Fortior of Madagascar or Lesotho Defence Force in the Champions Cup. Chiefs face Mbabane Highlanders of Swaziland in the CAF Cup. A third South African side, SuperSport United will be away to Costa de Sol of Mozambique […]

PAGAD national co-ordinator Abdus Salaam Ebrahim, together with his wife Zanie and two other unnamed Pagad members will remain behind bars until Tuesday. Ebrahim was arrested in a dawn raid on his home on Wednesday for, amongst other things, the 1996 lynching of Cape Flats gangster Rashaad Staggie. His wife Zanie was arrested for allegedly […]

THE government plans to appoint a black chief of police within months, reports Business Day, naming the front runners as former national intelligence co-ordinator Moe Shaikh and controversial ex-Truth Commission investigator Dumisa Ntsebeza. Both of the current police chiefs, Commissioner George Fivaz and CEO Meyer Khan, have contracts that end in July, and neither is […]

THE president of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Yomi Adeyemi Wilson, has rescinded his decision to quit his post. Wilson resigned last week, claiming pressure at his day job at US oil giants ExxonMobil as reason for the decision. “I am back as the president of the AFN,” Wilson said at the end of […]

A MAN was arrested and charged on Thursday for allegedly kicking Johannesburg accountant Johannes Snyders to death for urinating on a car in Sea Point, Cape Town, earlier this month. Vincent Michael Bracale, a 48-year-old security company manager, handed himself over to police on Thursday and later told the Cape Town Magistrate’s court that he […]

THE Land Affairs Ministry this week strongly denied claims by former MD Helena Dolny that the department is conducting an “ethnic cleansing” against the “white left” in its ranks. Dolny, who last week resigned from the Land Bank following an investigation of alleged mismanagement at the bank, made the allegations in an interview with e.tv […]

AT LEAST 289 families have been left homeless after a fire swept through the Joe Slovo informal settlement in Langa outside Cape Town on Tuesday evening. Forty fire-fighters battled for several hours to extinguish the blaze. Many of the stranded families were queuing at a nearby school on Wednesday to collect relief funds and other […]

THE death toll on South African roads reached 735 by Thursday morning, 56 short of last year’s December tally of 791. On Wednesday Transport Minister Dullah Omar said that traffic law enforcement will be stepped up in all provinces with immediate effect in an attempt to curb the mounting toll. After meeting transport MEC’s in […]

THE Zimbabwean government has postponed general elections until at least June next year from the initial date slated for March, a cabinet minister said on Wednesday. Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, told state radio that the general elections will not be held before June next year. “Our desire would have been to […]