A BLAZE on the weekend swept through Grahamstown’s historic Church Square, with some of the buildings destroyed by the fire national monuments dating back to the 1820s. The fire started Ackermans, directly opposite the city’s landmark Anglican St Michael & St George’s Cathedral and spread quickly through the nearby buildings. Damage is estimated at between […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Monday 5.00pm. SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallett on Monday named a side to bring “a style of play that will improve our attacking options without losing defensive options” in his line-up for a two Test series against Italy. His team, which excludes injured stars Joost van der Westhuizen and Henry Honiball but […]
NIGERIAN police shot dead three members of a student gang after they broke in and killed the registrar of their university at Abraka, southern Nigeria, police said, cited in local press on Monday. The three were shot and killed at the weekend after breaking into the home of Delta State University registrar, one S Otulu, […]
AN arrest warrant has been issued for Mpumalanga’s controversial finance head, Sam Cronje, after he failed to explain why the province has dodged its R65-million income tax bill over the past three-years. Cronje was supposed to appear in the Nelspruit district court last week Thursday to explain why the provincial administration failed to submit its […]
TREVOR Tutu, son of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, on Thursday paid his R8000 traffic fine in Johannesburg. The fine was imposed on May 17 by a Johannesburg magistrate after Tutu was found guilty of reckless driving following a four car pile-up in early morning traffic in Johannesburg on January 22 last year. On Tuesday this week, […]
THE need to verify results, when disparities emerge, by contacting district electoral officers has slowed down the rate of voting results. Voting results are submitted by phone, e-mail and fax. But electoral officers are proving hard to get hold of when double-checking is required. At 7pm on Thursday, only a fifth of the announced results […]
FIFTY Sudanese troops, including six officers, were killed when a military plane crashed near Khartoum on Thursday evening, the army said Friday. A military transport plane was flying from Kassala in eastern Sudan to Khartoum at 8pm on Thursday when it suffered technical problems, according to the statement from the Sudanese armed forces general command. […]
DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo rebels wounded a Zambian soldier and three civilians in a raid across the border, state media reported on Friday. Police said 67 rebels looted and torched four shops in the Kaputa district after an exchange of fire with Zambian troops. A Zambian patrol chanced upon the rebel soldiers but they were […]
FOUR of five Ivorian newspaper journalists who were detained for more than a month for allegedly disrupting public order and offending the head of state were freed from an Abidjan detention centre on Thursday. Le Populaire managing editor Raphael Lakpe was arrested on April 28 after a riot in Abidjan allegedly sparked by a story […]
THE Tanzanian government is refusing a request by Burundi to be allowed to launch a crack-down on rebels who fled to Tanzania. Tanzania says if rebels cross the border into Tanzania, they will be tracked down and housed in refugee camps. Burundi alleges that Tanzania is providing the rebels with military training, but Tanzania refutes […]