NELSPRUIT police detonated a suspicious package on Wednesday evening. It was not immediately known is the package was a bomb. An earlier bomb threat outside a primary school in the Mpumalanga town of Lydenburg turned out to be nothing more than a package in the trash that police dogs mistook for a bomb.
THE President and Cabinet unanimously agreed to the nomination of Mr Justice Sandile Ngcobo to the Constitutional Court, according to a statement by the office of President Nelson Mandela. The statement responded to media reports of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki’s intervention to appoint Ngcobo. Attempting to clarify the process, the statement notes that the Judicial […]
A CENSUS of the Congo-Brazzaville army came up 5,000 troops short, the army high command announced on Tuesday, saying the remaining names on the payroll represented either deserters or fictitious soldiers. The defense ministry two weeks ago ordered all officers and soldiers to barracks to allow a “complete review of personnel and equipment” with a […]
THE Independent Electoral Commission has denied SABC radio reports that election material was left unguarded at some polling stations in the former KwaNdebele. Provincial electoral officer, Steve Ngwenya, said on Tuesday that the reports were based on unconfirmed allegations by political parties that ballot papers and boxes had been left unguarded at Mjodjami polling station […]
FORENSIC cordite tests indicate that the suspicious parcel police exploded at a polling station in the small farm town of Burgersfort was normal garbage and not a bomb. Police exploded the parcel in a plastic dustbin at the Burgersfort Primary School just after 10.00am on Wednesday after sniffer dogs indicated that it might contain explosives. […]
INDONESIA has invited former Gauteng premier Tokyo Sexwale to monitor Indonesia’s parliamentary elections on June 7, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs announced on Tuesday. The institute said that Sexwale will leave for Indonesia on Wednesday. Forty-eight parties will be contesting what is expected to be Indonesia’s fairest election since 1955.
UP TO 200 people are feared to have been killed in intercommunal fighting in southern Nigeria’s oil-producing Delta region. Reports in most newspapers on Wednesday put the toll of the clashes, which began on Saturday with an attack on the town of Arunton, at around 200, the worst in the area for some time. The […]
EAST LONDON police are investigating four attempted murder counts after four dog unit members were shot at by gunmen while patrolling the Mdantsane area as part of their election duties. Nobody was injured and the policemen managed to arrest a suspect.
THE Independent Electoral Commission officials expect first results of the one-day election soon after midnight Wednesday — with a conclusive outcome possibly known by midday on Thursday. There are no exit polls or computer projections. Final opinion polls have forecast a majority of between 59% and 69% for the ANC, clearing the way for Deputy […]
THE Justice Department has agreed to transfer all its officials out of the former KaNgwane homeland capital of Louisville after they went on strike last week and staged sit-in protests at courts in Nelspruit. The 60 officials went on strike to protest against regular water and power cuts that forced them to drive up to […]