ANGOLAN soldiers have captured an island occupied by Unita rebels along the border with Namibia. Namibia said Angolan soldiers found 50 mortar bombs, 200 landmines, two cannons and other military equipment on the small island, situated on the narrow Kavango River, about 200km east of Rundu. It was being used by Unita to “position its […]

THE Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Wednesday that the department’s former chief spokesman has begun legal action against Foreign Minister Nkosazana Zuma. Media relations chief Marco Boni, who quit his post at the end of last month, wants R805000 in severance pay. He says he was sidelined by the minister when she arrived from the […]

ALL staff at Mpumalanga’s Tourism Authority (MTA) have lost their jobs and will have to re-apply for positions when the organisation is restructured early next year. A group of 17 staff members have already consulted with attorneys in an attempt to fight the move but declined to comment for fear of prejudicing their legal claims. […]

A NEW wine range called “Winds of Change” has been launched in London by a group of Paarl farm workers. The wine, a pinotage cabernet blend, is unique in the sense that it was produced on the Sonop farm in Paarl, near Cape Town, of which nine farm worker households earlier in the year acquired […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.00am. PHIL Masinga, Bafana Bafana’s leading all-time goal-scorer, could be out for as long as six months with a knee injury. Masinga, who has netted the ball 16 times for South Africa, will miss next month’s African Cup of Nations in Ghana and Nigeria. Masinga sustained a ligament injury during […]

THE US government on Wednesday lifted a six-year-old ban on direct flights between the United States and Nigeria, imposed after the military annulled elections in 1993. “US Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater today announced his finding that that Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, now maintains and carries out effective security measures,” the US […]

THE Inkatha Freedom Party has condemned the murder of six people early on Wednesday morning at remote KwaMachi on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast. Six men, aged between 40 and 60, were shot and hacked to death and several others were wounded during the attack which is believed to be related to faction fighting in the […]

ERSTWHILE Bafana Bafana head coach Stanley “Screamer” Tshabalala has been included in the five-man technical team to assist Trott Moloto ahead of the South Africans’ participation in the African Cup of Nations in Ghana from January 22 to February 13. Tshabalala, former Sundowns coach, was in charge of Bafana’s first official match against Cameroon in […]

AN estimated 220000 tourists are expected to travel to the beaches of Mozambique through the Lebombo border post this Christmas. Border police spokesperson, Captain Hansie Wessels, said on Wednesday that 140000 people have already passed through the border post since December 1. “We’ve beaten the previous year’s record every year since 1994 and expect to […]

THE road death toll since the start of holiday season on December 1 has reached 587. According to the Arrive Alive campaign, at least 29 people have been killed on South African roads since Christmas Eve. In KwaZulu-Natal, Arrive Alive issued warnings of mudslides, flooding and cave-ins following the recent heavy rainfalls. Kwazulu-Natal traffic authorities […]