KENYAN college students battered their principal to death after accusing the institution’s administration of mismanagement, press reports said Thursday. Polycarp Wanyela, the principal of Sangalo Institute of Science and Technology in the western Bungoma district, was attacked by about 100 students late on Tuesday. The students were armed with stones and truncheons. The reports quoted […]

FORMER Correctional Services Director-General Khulekani Sitole will leave for the United States on Monday afternoon to discuss a possible lectureship post at the Jackson State University in Mississipi, SABC reported. Sitole resigned his post at the correctional services last month after he was found guilty of mismanagement and misuse of funds. Earlier the parliamentary public […]

TAXI ranks in Soshanguve, north-west of Pretoria will remain closed, a judge investigating taxi violence in the area said on Monday. In a statement in Pretoria, Judge Dumisa Ntsebeza said although some progress was made over the weekend in Soshanguve, the two main taxi associations remained at logger-heads. “Taxi ranks will remain closed for the […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Sunday 2.00pm. Orlando Pirates(1) 1 (Mkhize 35-pen) Sundowns(1) 3 (Shai 30, 55, Motlohi 89) Sundowns qualify 3-2 on aggregate UTILITY player Isaac Shai celebrated his return to the national squad with a couple of goals as Sundowns reached their third consecutive Rothmans Cup final on a scorching afternoon in Johannesburg. Shai […]

ZAMBIA has called in British detectives to probe the murder of Wezi Kaunda, son and political heir of founding president and chief opposition leader Kenneth Kaunda, the government said on Saturday. “The British government has agreed to send a small team of investigators from Scotland Yard to participate in the ongoing investigations into the mysterious […]

QUEEN Elizabeth arrived in Maputo on Monday for a visit aimed at developing commercial and cultural ties with Mozambique, which, though not a British colony, has a long and colourful history of British intrigue. The 10-hour stopover at the end of an African tour marks the queen’s first visit to the former Portuguese colony. Her […]

WESTERN Cape police on Thursday arrested a school principal and a second man after matric mathematics exam papers were allegedly stolen and sold to pupils at the Hector Peterson High School in Kraaifontein last month. The papers were reportedly sold for R150 at the school on October 31, a day before the exams started. Police […]

MAVERICK Mpumalanga politician Joe Nkuna was arrested last week on a charge of attempted murder. A former ANC provincial secretary, Nkuna was arrested in KaNyamazane near Nelspruit on Thursday afternoon, for allegedly trying to kill Richard Simelane last Saturday night. Nkuna, who is now the UDM provincial secretary in Mpumalanga, appeared in the KaNyamazane Periodical […]

MURDERED African National Congress councillor and Zulu royal, Prince Cyril Zulu, was buried in his home town of Nongoma in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday. The funeral was attended by former president Nelson Mandela, Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe and senior ANC and Inkatha Freedom Party leaders. Speaking at the funeral, Mandela condemned the continued killings […]

SWAZILAND has ruled out insurance for rape victims, despite an alarming rise in rape cases. Recent research reported 350 ‘official’ rape cases in the country between January and May this year, as against 649 cases reported for the whole of 1998 and 588 cases in 1995. But the Royal Swaziland Insurance Corporation says it is […]