CHRISTIAN Solidarity International, a non-governmental organisation involved in a controversy over Sudan’s slave trade, said on Wednesday it had freed almost 1400 slaves in May. CSI has liberated a total of 9112 Sudanese slaves since the start of its campaign in 1995. The Zurich-based NGO frees the slaves by buying them. The method has been […]
A SENIOR Mozambican police officer has been sentenced to three months imprisonment for illegally detaining a journalist, state radio reported on Tuesday. Severino Charles, police commander of Chiure district in the northern Cabo Delgado province, was Tuesday found guilty of illegally detaining journalist Fernando Quinova of the state-owned Mass Communications Institute in October last year. […]
THE head of a 19-member Commonwealth observer group, Britain’s Lord David Steel, said polling reflected that South Africa was becoming a normal country. “There is a very big contrast in what was a liberation election and this one which is much more like a normal election held in any country, with healthy debate between the […]
GRAHAM GRIFFITHS, London | Wednesday 2.45pm. MCGRATH against Tendulkar….an early confrontation between tournament heavyweights South Africa and Pakistan….buoyant Zimbabwe battling to reach the semifinals for the first time. These are among the appetising ingredients that make up the compelling cricket cocktail which is in prospect for the second stage of the World Cup when the […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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.