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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
JUDGES at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on Friday elected South African Navanethem Pilla as their president to replace Laity Kama of Senegal, who stepped down after two two-year terms. Of Indian ancestry, Pillay was born in 1941 and is the mother of two daughters, the Swiss-based Hirondelle news agency reported from the northern […]
THE Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO)has complained to the Independent Election Commission (IEC)about the abnormalities that allegedly marred the elections. The organisation’s Deputy President Bandelani Nefolovodwe told journalists in a press conference at the Pretoria Media Resource Centre on Wednesday evening that “we have got certain concerns that we have put through to the IEC.” He […]
FRIDAY, 7.00PM: THE key indices on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange drifted lower throughout the day on Friday, bringing an explosive week to a slow close. Despite the directionless market, the day recorded the highest volume of stock traded this year at R2,432-billion, with a number of asset swaps, late trades and block trades pushing the […]
TUESDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH African Jaco Olver advanced to the second round of the British Amateur championship at Muirfield on Wednesday, beating Scottish golfer Wilson Bryson in a thrilling come-from-behind victory. The big-hitting Wanderers amateur was three down with five to play, but ended up taking four holes without loss to go to the 18th one-up. […]
FRIDAY, 6.30PM: ENGLAND are still in a strong position after tea on the second day of the first Test against South Africa being played at Edgbaston on Friday. After a sterling innings on the first day on Thursday, England lost a couple of early wickets, and went to lunch on 321/4. The batsmen back in […]