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 […]

TRANSPORT Minister Dullah Omar announced on Saturday that his department’s director-general, Dipak Patel, will not renew his contract when it expires at the end of this year. Spokesman Mike Mabasa said the outgoing DG will be joining Rothschild Investment Bank in London for six months as a member of its global telecommunications team next year.

NIGERIAN commuters, frustrated by the two-day strike of commercial transporters in the industrial capital Lagos, heaved a sigh of relief as buses returned to the road on Wednesday. The transporters, protesting high tariffs charged them by the state authority, had withdrawn vehicles from the road Monday, crippling economic activities in Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre. The […]

A SPECIAL task team has been appointed to investigate the Empangeni taxi violence that killed 11 people in northern KwaZulu-Natal last week. Provincial Transport MEC, S’bu Ndebele, appointed the task team, that will be headed by chairman of the Cross Border Transport Agency, George Negota. The investigation will be assessed and monitored on a daily […]

EIGHT children and three adults were killed in Mpumalanga when a truck ploughed into three cars parked at the side of a national road, police said on Sunday. Ten people died at the scene of the accident late on Saturday near Middelburg, about 120 kilometres east of Pretoria. A five-year-old boy with multiple fractures and […]

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 […]