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 […]

ZIMBABWE were one goal up against Bafana Bafana at half-time in the President Thabo Mbeki Inauguration friendly match at FNB Stadium on Wednesday. Hurlington Shereni scored in the 24th minute in the international soccer friendly. Bafana not too ‘Chippa’ 15

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.00pm. PHIL ‘Chippa’ Masinga is one of three leading Bafana Bafana players who have been forced by injury to withhold their talents from the President Mbeki Inauguration friendly match against Zimbabwe on Wednesday. Team doctor Victor Ramathesela announced on Monday that Masinga, defender Pierre Issa and keeper Brian Baloyi will […]

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 […]

PAY-TV station, M-Net’s comparable results show 49,9% growth in revenue, with headline earnings per share increasing to 61%, amidst the introduction of a new competitor and a currency devaluation. This was announced by the Board of Electronic Media Network Limited (M-Net) on Tuesday in its financial results for the year ending 31 March 1999. The […]

Johannesburg | Wednesday 1.45pm. HUMAN rights violations continue in post-apartheid South Africa, with frequent reports of deaths in police custody, Amnesty International said in its latest annual report published on Wednesday. Five years after all-race elections ended minority white rule in South Africa, there are “numerous reports of torture, ill-treatment and suspected unlawful killings by […]

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. […]

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 […]

AFRIKANER Weerstandsbeweging leader Eugene Terre’Blanche and one of his generals, Piet “Skiet” Rudolph, have been granted amnesty for their part in the siege of Ventersdorp in which three people died, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee confirmed on Monday. Beeld reports that Terre’Blanche was also granted amnesty for two other incidents: the tarring and […]

SEVERAL hundred Kenya Polytechnic students went on the rampage in Nairobi on Tuesday in protest against examinations set by the Kenya National Examinations Council. The students said they wanted internal exams set by their own lecturers and not those of the KNEC. Running battles ensued with the police, with students stoning passing vehicles and lighting […]