A MAN who allegedly drove the getaway car used after the murder of the ex-wife of a former Mpumalanga MEC was arrested on Friday. Police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Phuti Setati said the 28-year-old man was arrested during the early hours of Friday morning in connection with the murder of Aletta Rose Mnisi, former wife of […]
THE World Cup-bound United States rugby team has canceled one of three matches on its upcoming tour of Australia. The Eagles were supposed to open the tour against the ACT President’s XV, featuring former Wallaby hero David Campese, on July 18. ACT rugby union general manager Mark Sinderberry said the Americans pulled out because of […]
THE Grahamstown fire department is fighting a fire that started on Saturday night when a fireworks display at the set alight the hill below the 1820 Settler monument. The fireworks had been planned as one of the highlights of the final weekend of the festival — which ends on Sunday.A spokesman for the local fire […]
SPOORNET is mulling thousands of jobs cuts — up to 27000 according to rail unions — as part of a massive restructuring effort, the company said on Thursday. Unions said they would fight the job cuts by launching strike action from Friday. “Rolling mass action” by some 40000 rail employees is aimed at stopping the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 5.00pm HEAVY congestion at South African ports – coupled with alleged cartel behaviour by shipping companies – is putting importers and exporters in a stranglehold which could result in pressure on the country’s foreign reserves and balance of trade. The Business Times reports on Sunday that 12 of the shipping […]
THE life expectancy of the average South African is expected to drop from 60 to 40 years by 2008 as a result of Aids mortality, the Department of Welfare and Population Development said on Friday. It said that a total of 3,6 million South Africans were already infected with HIV, and it is estimated that […]
MOHLOLI MAHLALA of Pretoria, four-time gold medallist in the Comrades and Russian’s Viktor Zhdanov who finished runner-up in the marathon were named by Athletics South Africa on Wednesday as testing positive for the use of banned substances in the KwaZulu Natal classic from Pietermaritzburg to Durban on June 16. Athletics Gauteng North’s Mahlala, who finished […]
LAWRENCE BARTLETT, Lusaka | Sunday 11.30am. SIX nations involved in the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a ceasefire pact in Lusaka on Saturday, but not rebels trying to topple President Laurent Kabila. Zambian President Frederick Chiluba said the rebels will sign later, after he has decided on the validity of conflicting leadership […]
ZIMBABWE’S Supreme Court on Friday ordered an end to solitary confinement for three US citizens held in a maximum security prison on gun charges, with other improvements in their conditions. The three detained Americans earlier this week complained of inhuman treatment at Chikurubi prison on the outskirts of the capital. John Lamonte Dixon, Gary George […]
AFRICAN foreign ministers worked into the small hours of Sunday to hammer out draft proposals on conflict management, terrorism and economic development to be debated at this week’s Organization of African Unity summit. Some 40 heads of state and government are expected in Algiers for the 35th OAU summit from Monday to Wednesday. Draft documents […]