MOROCCO’S Hicham El Guerrouj broke the men’s mile world record on Wednesday when he clocked three minutes 43.13 seconds in a dramatic race at the second Golden League meeting of the season. Guerrouj, who broke the 1,500 world mark on the same track last year, was pushed all the way to the finish line by […]
THE trial of three US citizens detained in Zimbabwe on arms charges was on Tuesday postponed by a High Court judge until July 19 because the prosecutor fell ill. Judge George Smith refused a longer postponement requested by the state, saying the case had attracted international attention and needed to be dealt with as soon […]
“People’s Poet” Mzwakhe Mbuli, currently serving a 13-year sentence for armed robbery, was on Tuesday admitted to a private Johannesburg hospital to undergo a prostate operation. The operation is expected to take place sometime this week. Mbuli has opted to have his own private practitioner rather than the state-paid district surgeon. His private doctor recommended […]
TOP Northern Province attorney Khatutshelo Mulovhedzi was shot dead on Tuesday morning when he opened his door to his girlfriend. Police spokesperson Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said a gunman forced Mulovhedzi’s girlfriend, Dr Naledzani Khwananda, to knock on the door at about 7.00am. When Mulovhedzi opened the door he was shot several times in the upper […]
RETIRED president Nelson Mandela will not attend the Organization of African Unity summit that opened in Algiers on Monday because he is tired, conference organizers said. Mandela, who was to have been guest of honor at the summit, “is tired. He has the right to a little rest. We understand his absence,” a spokesperson for […]
THE Egyptian government has given the green light to move a 2500-year-old temple to another site in the Western desert to save it from corrosive underground water. Workers will next week start transferring the base of temple Amun, its columns, and walls 300m north of its location at Hibis in the Kharga oasis, antiquities chief […]
A FOREIGN exchange dealer in Malawi’s commercial capital of Blantyre has been arrested on corruption charges on Thursday after he allegedly abused exchange controls to smuggle $2-million out of the country. Malawi Anti-Corruption director, Gilton Chiwaula, said on Thursday that Akta Hamid was arrested for allegedly funnelling over 66-million Malawi Kwacha out of Malawi. Hamid […]
FOUR days of a strike by thousands of municipal workers over pay plunged Zimbabwe’s capital city into a crisis by Tuesday, with disruption of some of the essential services. Some 15000 striking Harare city workers have downed their tools and assembled at the city’s mayoral offices, the Town House in the city centre, demanding a […]
A STRIKE by drivers and conductors of Kenya’s mini-buses continued to disrupt normal activities in Nairobi on Thursday with workers arriving in their offices late and many shops closed. Commuters struggled to board crowded Kenya Bus Company vehicles, the only available means of public transport, but many waited at bus stops for hours. Mini-bus owners, […]
THE South African SA Revenue Service announced on Wednesday that it intends to submit to Parliament draft legislation to Parliament to control the illegal substitution of fuels. In terms of its proposal, oil companies would introduce a chemical “marker” into paraffin and certain solvents with similar characteristics towards the end of the year, SARS said […]