BRYAN PEARSON, Johannesburg | Wednesday 7.30pm. OUTGOING President Nelson Mandela on Wednesday concluded his final cabinet meeting before his retirement next week with an emotional address to his ministers and deputy ministers. “The meeting was businesslike … but towards the end it became quite emotional,” chief government spokesman Joel Netshitenzhe said after the four-hour cabinet […]
A 65-YEAR-OLD Northern Province woman was arrested on Monday for cutting out one of her 27-year-old son’s testicles for muti. The woman, from Cunningmoore village 60km from Bushbuckridge, was arrested with three other suspects after they evaded police for two days. The other suspects are two men, aged 22 and 23, and a woman of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.00am. THE Beka provident fund was ordered by the Pension Funds adjudicator on Tuesday to change its rules to accommodate homosexual relationships, and to give a pension to the partner of one of its deceased members. The Gay and Lesbian Legal Advice Centre, which has been representing the new beneficiary, […]
THE Malawi Electoral Commission has fired two District Commissioners from acting as Returning Officers during the country’s 15 June general elections for “not cooperating” with the Commission. Chief Elections Officer Roosevelt Gondwe says the two men — Geoffrey Mwanja and Martin Mainja — created problems in the run up to the elections. Opposition and civil […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cairo | Tuesday 5.00pm. FIFA President Joseph Blatter urged Africa to pull behind one of its two national candidates to give the continent a good shot at hosting the World Cup in 2006. “To have a real chance… Africa should make sure that there will be only one candidate from Africa,” Blatter said […]
JAMES BRYANT, Edgbaston | Tuesday 12.25pm WORLD Cup favourites South Africa will receive a simple message from Hansie Cronje before their second-round clash with New Zealand here on Thursday — let’s try and win without Lance Klusener’s help for a change. The South Africans, fresh from beating main tournament rivals Pakistan, can make sure of […]
MORE than 60 people are feared drowned after their overloaded boat sank on Ghana’s sprawling Volta Lake at the weekend, police in Accra said on Tuesday. The accident happened some 500km northeast of the capital. Some 25 passengers who survived and swam to safety told police that the boat, which sank in high winds on […]
THE Mpumalanga education department is expected to announce the results of its probe into last year’s matric results scandal later on Thursday. There has been no word yet on whether any officials will be dismissed. The claimed pass rate was 72%, but the SA Certification Council dropped it to 52%, and Judge Eberhard Bertelsmann found […]
NIGERIA’S national assembly is set to remove repressive laws from the country’s statute books, a top official said on Tuesday. “We are going to set up a committee to look into the laws and fish out those ones that you and I regard as being obnoxious,” Senate President Evans Enwerem told reporters here. Enwerem said […]
TUESDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH AFRICAN cricket captain Hansie Cronje has acknowledged the fact that his two main strike bowlers Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock were a tad out of sorts during the first Test at Headingley against Englandwhich was called a draw on Monday due to intermittent rain. Cronje said that the South Africans are confident […]