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 The transporters, protesting high tariffs charged them by the state authority, had withdrawn vehicles from the road Monday, crippling economic activities in Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre.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 […]

THE Tanzanian parliament has extended the tenure of the country’s privatisation agency for four years. The house on Wednesday passed a bill presented by Finance Minister Daniel Yona to enable the Parastatal Sector Reform Commission, the agency entrusted with selling state assets, to complete the divestiture. The commission was created in 1993 with a mandate […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Tembisa | Monday 12.00pm. Classic (2) 5 (Zwane 6, Joubert 25, Mthunzi 58, Malatule 62, Mahlangu 88-pen) Moroka Swallows (0) 1 (Ningiza 38); At Makhulong Stadium IT was a scorching hot Sunday afternoon in the East Rand township of Tembisa, and for Swallows goalkeeper George Fernandes there was the added discomfort of having […]

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 […]