SOUTH African Airways will in December resume twice-weekly flights to Kinshasa, capital of the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo a spokeswoman said on Monday. SAA suspended the flights last year soon after rebels attacked the government of President Laurent Kabila in August. “We have reviewed the political situation and other airlines are also flying in,” […]

BRITISH Aerospace said on Sunday that South Africa’s Denel Aviation will be the sole supplier of rudders and ailerons for the company’s Avro Regional Jet (RJ) airliner. Denel Aviation, a unit of state arms manufacturer Denel, will initially produce 18 rudder and aileron sets a year, British Aerospace said in a statement. The agreement carries […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 1.05pm ALEXKOR, the embattled state diamond miner, has secured a R120-million loan that will allow further exploration work, a government official said on Monday. The loan agreement was sealed after a meeting on Friday between officials from Alexkor, the government, the diamond miner’s management contractor, Nabera Mining Ltd, and Nabera’s […]

THE Department of Tourism and Environmental Affairs said on Sunday that it wants to sell its ivory stockpile worth some R25-million. It said the money will be used for elephant preservation. The department intends putting forward the proposal at the 11th Conference of the International Trade in Endagered Species. Environmental Affairs Minister Vallie Moosa said […]

XHOSA King Xolilizwe Sigawu on Sunday called for a meeting with Queen Elizabeth II, due to arrive in South Africa on Tuesday, saying he wants an apology for the British oppression of his people in the 19th century. Sigawu told SABC television the Xhosa are still suffering because the British seized their cattle and land […]

SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Monday 1.00pm POLICE spokesman for urban anti-terror unit Operation Good Hope, Captain Neville Malila, confirmed on Monday that the the bomb detonated in popular gay nightclub on Friday night was homemade. The bomb went off inside the premises of the popular Blah Bar on Somerset Road in Green Point at […]

SOUTH Africa’s 739 traditional leaders collectively earn more than R48-million a month, and do not even have to sign performance contracts, Sydney Mufamadi, the minister of provincial affairs and local government said Monday in reply to a parliamentary question.In KwaZulu-Natal, the North West, and the Northern Province they are also paid generous allowances for attending […]

PETROS AUGOUSTI, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00am. GAUTENG mopped up a sorry Easterns tail dismissing them for a paltry 83 to take the honours and the points on the final morning of their SuperSport Series match at the Wanderers on Sunday. The tail did not so much wag as fall off with David Terbrugge starting the […]

ZIMBABWEAN strike bowler Heath Streak has again been ruled out of the squad to play South Africa in the second Test of the two match home-away series in Harare on Thursday. Streak has been suffering from a knee injury which again flared up after surgery. The 13-man Zimbabwean squad shows three changes to the one […]

UGANDA’S Minister of State for Regional Cooperation Amama Mbabazi on Sunday played down the repudiation of a ceasefire pact by one faction involved in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The head of the Ugandan-backed rebel Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC), Jean-Pierre Bemba, on Saturday said the ceasefire in DRC is […]