THE Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee meeting kicked off in Pretoria on Wednesday with a committment by Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni that the committee will provide more information later in the day on how it calculates its monetary policy stance. At its meeting last month, the first since it assumed its new form, the […]

ALLEGED mafioso Vito Palazzolo has turned the tables on the Western Cape police and laid a charge of defamation of character against police management for a report last year that named him as head of the Western Cape mafia. The Cape Times reports that Palazzolo has filed a civil action in the Cape High Court, […]

A PORT Elizabeth man has been kicked and punched to death for stealing a bag of carrots. The man, named only as Michael, was found dead on the pavement by ambulance personnel, police spokesman Johan Buys said. The murdered man was pursued by the owner of a vegetable stall and his son after he allegedly […]

ZAMBIAN police have shot and killed one murder suspect and arrested another in their enquiry into the killing of a son of former president Kenneth Kaunda, Home Affairs Minister Peter Machungwa said. The minister also said that a fifth suspect in the November 4 killing of Major Wezi Kaunda is still on the run. Machungwa […]

A GROUP of Mpumalanga women were arrested on Monday for walking naked along a road in protest against a local chief. Twenty-four unclothed women, carrying four babies, marched along the Jeppe’s Reef road to the kraal of Chief Matsam Shongwe, demanding land to grow mealies. Schoemansdal station commissioner Captain Magdarine Nel on Tuesday said the […]

THE Bank of England has frozen several bank accounts belonging to Angolan Unita rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, in an attempt to prevent him from continuing to wage war in the country. The British government has called on the international banking community to follow its lead.

THE United States has invited African energy ministers to a conference next month where it hopes to draft a coordinated strategy for energy development on the continent while promoting US businesses there, US Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said in Washington on Monday. Already 35 of 54 African ministers have agreed to attend the gathering December […]

TWENTY-FOUR women — four of them carrying babies — were on Wednesday hauled before the Tonga Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga for walking naked in protest against a local chief. The women, aged between 19 and 50, were from Buffelspruit near Malelane. They were arrested on Monday when they demonstrated against Chief Matsamo Shongwe, demanding more […]

LEADERS of the 71-member African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) grouping meet this week with crucial negotiations involving the European Union uppermost, yet not exclusively, on their minds. The summit, to be held in the Dominican Republic capital of Santo Domingo, is being viewed as a critical juncture in the negotiation of a successor agreement to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.45pm. THE richest national football competition in Africa has been reduced to a farce this year by a series of off-the-field events. When Free State Stars defeated Jomo Cosmos 3-0 on aggregate in the League Cup quarter-finals they could hardly have imagined what drama would follow. Cosmos claimed Stars fielded […]