Former police general Frans Steenkamp approved the 1993 murder of Umkhonto we Sizwe commander Zwelakhi Nyanda, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard on Monday. Former security police Brigadier Willem Schoon testified in Pretoria that Nyanda had been in charge of an MK unit in the former Natal province that was responsible for many deaths. Nyanda […]
NIGERIA’S President Olusegun Obasanjo plans to visit the scene of heavy intercommunal fighting in the troubled southern oil town of Warri on Friday. The centre of Warri, a key hub in the multimillion dollar Nigerian oil industry, has been devastated by intercommunal clashes in recent days and Obasanjo’s visit is seen as vital to hopes […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 9.30am POLICE and army troops have been redeployed to the volatile Cape Flats after a weekend of gang-related fighting that left 19 people injured and two dead. On Monday morning three-year-old Chantien Veldsman, the daughter of slain Cape Flats gang leader Glen Kahn, is in a critical condition in […]
NIGERIAN bank workers on Tuesday suspended a strike action launched two weeks ago over better pay and working conditions following the decision of employers to negotiate, union officials said.”The ongoing action is hereby suspended with immediate effect,” Princewell Ojeh, president of the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions said. Ojeh urged […]
THE director of the Independent Complaints Directorate, Neville Melville, said on Friday certain individuals and organisations are creating a mischievous perception that the ICD is conducting a witchhunt against police officials. Melville said some of the misinformation being spread appears to be politically motivated. There are also people within the ranks of the police who […]
ZIMBABWE has been pencilled in for its first cricket Test tour of Australia in the summer of 2000/01, Australian Cricket Board chief executive Mal Speed said on Wednesday. In further recognition of the African nation’s ascent as a legitimate cricket power, Speed said Zimbabwe was likely to play two Tests in a summer when the […]
ERITREAN forces either killed or wounded 12210 Ethiopian soldiers in three days of fighting, the Eritrean news agency ERINA said on Monday. The state-run agency said the period covered Thursday through Saturday. It also said two Eritrean MiG-23 jet fighters had been shot down Sunday. According to Eritrean state television, 2300 Ethiopians were killed and […]
WAYNE Ferreira beat last year’s runner-up Laurence Tieleman of Italy 3-6 7-5 6-1 in the at Queen’s Club’s $750000 London grass-court championships on Monday. Ferreira, the 10th seed and 1992 champion, managed to complete his game before other matches were washed out. Triple Wimbledon champion and four-times winner at Queen’s, Boris Becker, met Czech Petr […]
South African National Defence Force commander, General Siphiwe Nyanda, on Monday said he believed his late brother was sold out by a fellow MK cadre known as “Fear”, who allegedly committed suicide while being interrogated by ANC members in Lusaka. Nyanda told reporters during a break in Truth and Reconciliation Commission proceedings that there had […]
AUSTRALIAN star leg spinner Shane Warne could be driven from the game by unrelenting media attacks, according to cricket World Cup skipper Steve Waugh. Waugh, speaking before Sunday’s clash with South Africa, said: “Shane’s under a lot of pressure and is copping a lot of stick from back home in the press. “I’m really not […]