INAUGURATION revellers at the Union Buildings gardens in Pretoria on Wednesday afternoon settled in to enjoy some music and entertainment. Nineteen acts are lined up to perform at a post-inauguration concert, including local stars Hugh Masekela, Brenda Fassi, Johnny Clegg and Juluka and Lucky Dube, as well as international musicians Youssou N’dour and Angelique Kidjou. […]
Swaziland National Aids Programme officials are warning people infected with the HIV/Aids virus against buying any product advertised locally for the treatment of the disease. Aids sufferers have apparently flocking to a dealer in Manzini, following an advertisement about a drug named colloidal silver. Enquiries made by the Swaziland Aids counselling office found that medical […]
STATE prosecutors slapped another four fraud charges against alleged cash-heist kingpin Collin Chauke’s lover, Dudu Nkosi, when she appeared in the Nelspruit district court on Monday. Nkosi now faces 14 separate fraud charges. After she was arrested with Chauke at her Nelspruit townhouse on January 19, she was charged only with harbouring a known fugitive. […]
EIGHT consortia met the Monday noon deadline for bids for the coveted third cellular phone licence. The bidders are: Telenor/Telia Consortium, NextCom Cellular, Afrozone Telecomms, Five Mobile Networks, Africa Speaks, Spatial Cellular, Cell C and Khuluma 084 Cellular. A ninth bidder, Zintatu, failed to meet the 12 noon deadline to deliver 25 copies of their […]
BRONWYN ROBERTS, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.30pm NELSON MANDELA commemorated South Africa’s Youth Day by laying a wreath in Soweto, just hours before officially handing power to his deputy Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday. Several hundred people from the sprawling township outside Johannesburg greeted Mandela and his wife Graca with applause, cheers and whistles at the Hector […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 7.49pm. THE current caretaker of former special police base Vlakplaas on Tuesday said he plans to buy the farm and convert it into a museum. Caretaker Louis Smit told reporters at the farm he hoped former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock will be freed and visit the planned museum. De […]
THE appeals of far-rightists Daryll Stopforth and Leonard Veenendal against the refusal of their applications for the suspension of the decision to extradite them to Namibia will be heard by the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on September 7. The extradition of Stopforth and Veendendal was applied for by the Namibian government on June […]
A FRENCH association representing families of the 170 people who died in the 1989 bombing of an airliner filed suit on Wednesday against Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi, accusing him of being an accomplice to murder. The suit by SOS-Attentats comes three months after a special French court sentenced in absentia six suspected Libyan agents to […]
WESTERN Dape Director of Public Prosecutions Frank Kahn has referred a docket in which Foreign Affairs official Robert McBride is charged with being an accessory in an assault case, back to the police for further investigation. McBride and a friend are being accused of assaulting a woman at an escort agency in Cape Town. According […]
VOTING ended at most polling stations in Malawi’s second democratic elections on Tuesday at the scheduled time of 6pm, chief elections officer Roosevelt Gondwe said. He said voting would continue at a few centres which opened late to allow everyone to cast their ballots. Counting was due to begin soon after the polls closed, but […]