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 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT & Reuters, Brisbane | Tuesday 11.45am. AFTER bizarrely turning down the Springbok captaincy when Gary Teichmann was unavailable for the second Test against Italy, Johan ”Rassie” Erasmus was named the new Springbok captain on Tuesday to face Australia on Saturday. ”At this stage I feel I’m the guy for the job,” said the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Brisbane | Tuesday 12.10pm. FORMER Springbok captain Tiaan Strauss is likely to face his old country in an international Test for the first time as an Australian impact player Tri-Nations clash in Brisbane on Saturday. Strauss, who captained the Boks in 1994 before being inexplicably left out of Kitch Christie’s 1995 World Cup […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.00pm. The Knysna Elephant Park said on Tuesday it had access to R600000 to transport, house and feed 14 Tuli elephants who were abused on a plot outside Brits in the North West province. It said in a statement the money would be made available by the International Fund for […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.00pm. The Knysna Elephant Park said on Tuesday it had access to R600000 to transport, house and feed 14 Tuli elephants who were abused on a plot outside Brits in the North West province. It said in a statement the money would be made available by the International Fund for […]

PHILLIP NKOSI, Nelspruit | Monday 4.20pm. THE head of Mpumalanga’s Education Department, Faith Sithole, has been suspended in connection with the province’s matric results scandal. This follows calls by the South African Democratic Teachers Union to suspend her after the province’s matric results were fraudulently inflated to 72% last year. Acting MEC for Education, Fish […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Gabarone | Monday 12.30am. TRADE officals from the 14 member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) meet in Gabarone Monday to thrash out a regional free trade plan in advance of a trade ministers’ meeting on Wednesday. SADC chief economist Chingo Mwila said Monday’s meeting in the Botswana capital will focus […]

ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba, who chairs the peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sunday criticised the United Nations for allocating less money to African refugees in comparison to what it gives to their European counterparts. It was grossly unfair that the UN allocated as much as one US dollar and 50 cents […]