FORMER Mpumalanga MEC for environmental affairs, Luckson Mathebula, and his girlfriend were denied bail in the Mhala Regional Court in Bushbuckridge on Friday for the alleged murder of Mathebula’s estranged wife. Northern Province police spokesman Senior Superintendent Phuti Setati said Mathebula and 34-year-old Pretty Gama — an employee of Coca-Cola in Nelspruit — will be […]
FRED CHELA & DAN LANGEVELDT, Blantyre | Monday 4.00pm. POST-election violence which erupted in Malawi’s opposition stronghold in the north of the country on Friday has left at least one person dead and ten mosques razed to the ground, police and the Muslim Association of Malawi said on Monday. The violence began in the northern […]
FIFTEEN African National Congress Youth League members picketed the entrance of the Western Cape legislature building in Cape Town on Monday, demanding the formation of a provincial youth commission. ANCYL provincial deputy chairperson Goodenough Kodwa said he expected large number of their supporters to join them later on Monday afternoon. Earlier on Monday, ANCYL chairperson […]
PREPARATIONS for the Southern African Development Community heads of state summit in Lusaka on June 26 are on course, said Zambian foreign affairs spokesman Kimbala Meleka on Monday. Meleka confirmed that SADC defence and foreign ministers are expected to begin arriving in Lusaka from Tuesday to begin finalising the summit’s agenda on Wednesday. Ministers from […]
A JAPANESE businessman on Saturday escaped from kidnappers who had demanded $50000 for his release, police in Durban said. Police said in a statement that Kensuke Matsumoto (67) ran into a Japanese restaurant in a beachfront hotel about 1.30pm on Saturday. “Mr Matsumoto … does not appear to have been seriously injured,” police said. Police […]
NOT only were the Natal Sharks beaten 23-29 in a Currie Cup match against Griqualand West, but returning from Kimberley on Friday night they narrowly escaped injury when their chartered airplane burst into flame shortly after take-off. The rugby players and about 20 other passengers were returning to KwaZulu-Natal when the right engine on the […]
THE Estcourt Magistrate’s Court on Monday issued a warrant of arrest for former Miss South Africa Kerishnie Naicker after she failed to appear before the court for an alleged traffic offence. She was allegedly caught driving at 190km per hour near the town in March. The magistrate ordered that the execution of the warrant be […]
THREE bandits suspected of attacking six American tourists in the world-famous Maasai Mara Game Reserve in southwest Kenya this week appeared in court on Saturday and admitted the charge. The suspects, arrested by Kenyan security forces early Saturday in a bush den on the Kenyan-Tanzanian border were remanded in custody. Police said that the three […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 11.50am. ALGERIA, Congo and Cote d’Ivoire clinched places at the 2000 African Nations Cup on Sunday after the final qualifying matches. A 2-0 win over Uganda in Annaba enabled Algeria to finish runners-up behind Tunisia in Group 7, but it was close as only a one goal difference separated them […]
EMILE Ilunga, the breakaway leader of the Congolese Rally for Democracy rebel movement, on Saturday spelled out a set of conditions for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The RCD’s three preconditions for ending a 10-month rebellion to topple President Laurent Kabila are that his troops stop targeting civilians, release Tutsi prisoners held in […]