PHILLIP NKOSI, Nelspruit | 5.20pm. SUSPENDED Mpumalanga Parks Board chief executive Alan Gray threatened to interdict the provincial government on Thursday after accusing it of denying him access to information. Gray’s attorney, Pieter Swanepoel, said the MPB had consistently refused to supply his client with “vital” documents required to disprove 20 misconduct charges. The charges […]

EMMA THOMASSON, Johannesburg | Thursday 7.35pm BUSINESS leaders on Thursday urged Commonwealth governments to speak with one voice at the forthcoming round of World Trade Organisation talks and push for more market access for its mostly poor members. ”The Commonwealth should advance a common position at the WTO,” the Commonwealth Business Forum said in its […]

THE international environmental group Greenpeace on Wednesday called on the South African government to co-ordinate commonwealth opposition to European plutonium and high level nuclear waste shipments to Japan at this week’s Durban Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. At a press conference aboard the Greenpeace in Cape Town harbour, the environmental group warned of the imminent […]

FIVE young people were shot and hacked to death in a clash between rival gangs in Amshayazafe township in KwaZulu-Natal, police said on Wednesday. Police spokesman Captain Vishnu Naidoo said the bodies of the victims, a woman and four men aged between 15 and 20, were found outside a shop in the township, some 50 […]

BRITAIN’S Queen Elizabeth and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh arrived in South Africa Tuesday at the start of a five-day visit during which she will officially open the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The Queen was met at Waterkloof Airforce Base by South Africa’s Foreign Minister Nkosazana Zuma, British High Commissioner Maeve Fort and […]

SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Wednesday 11.45am MIDI TV, holding company of free to air television station e.tv, hopes to attract new equity partners with its proposed changes in its shareholding, acting CEO Marcel Golding said on Tuesday. Golding was speaking at the start of Midi’s application to the Independent Broadcasting Authority in Rosebank to […]

SHAUN Pollock and Jacques Kallis have moved to the top of the Price-Waterhouse-Coopers ratings for all-rounders, while Pollock has also displaced Allan Donald at the top of the pile for Test bowlers. Donald has moved to second spot on the rankings. Kallis and Pollock are currently on 465 and 402 points respectively in the all-rounder […]

THE Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, presented peace awards on Wednesday to British defence advisors who are helping integrate former South African freedom fighters into the post-apartheid armed forces. Prince Philip, accompanying the queen on a state visit to South Africa, presented the Wilkinson Sword for Peace to the British Military […]

NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday approved the immediate release of hundreds of detainees who have been awaiting trial in the country for more than two years. The release order, however, excludes all those been detained for murder, robbery, rape, fraud and forgery. Shortly after he was sworn in in May, Obasanjo ordered the release […]

ZIMBABEAN cricket skipper Alistair Campbell resigned on Tuesday after his side was handed a string of humiliating defeats. Campbell will be temporarily replaced by wicketkeeper Andy Flower, who was also his predecessor, said Peter Chingoka, president of the Zimbabwe Cricket Union. The Zimbabweans have recently suffered big losses against Australia at home and South Africa […]