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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]