ZIMBABWE’s civil servants have refused the 5% salary increase offered by government on Tuesday,y and have gone on a nationwide strike demanding a 25% rise. Zimbabwe’s labour law does not allow the civil servants to strike. The defiant workers have given the government until Friday to adequately resolve the crisis or face an indefinite strike. […]
THABO MBEKI’S inauguration as president on Wednesday was celebrated by a fly-over of three South African Airways Boeings which swooped over the festivities at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. One such Boeing delighted crowds at the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup with its fly-past over Ellis Park Stadium, but the use of three […]
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 […]
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 […]
POLICE are preparing to ask Interpol, the international police body, to help track down elusive political analyst Eugene Nyati after he successfully dodged a local warrant of arrest for ten weeks. The Pretoria Regional Court ordered Nyati’s arrest on April 1 when he failed to appear for trial on attempted murder charges after allegedly shooting […]
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 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Birmingham | Wednesday 10.10am. HERSCHELLE Gibbs spoke on Tuesday for the first time about ”that catch” offered by Steve Waugh and denied he had dropped the ball while celebrating. The South African opener was faced with a simple chance at midwicket to remove Waugh when the Australian captain was on 56 in Sunday’s […]