PRESIDENT-IN-WAITING Thabo Mbeki has told black business leaders a credible election on June 2 is critical to the economic growth that South Africa needs to wipe out the legacy of apartheid. “The matter of a free and fair election has become an important, indeed a strategic issue for this country,” he told members of the […]
CONTEMPT for human rights remains embedded in the Zambian police force, whose officers shoot and kill as an alternative to arrest and routinely torture ordinary citizens as part of crime investigations, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. In a new report, released on the eve of a World Bank meeting that will discuss Zambia’s human rights […]
THE Independent Complaints Directorate on Thursday denied claims by the South African Police Union in the Western Cape that it is conducting a witch-hunt against police. About 50 police members gathered at the ICD offices on Wednesday where Sapu provincial secretary Billy Daniels handed over a memorandum to the directorate’s regional director Riaz Saloojee. This […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 2.10pm THE Cape High Court on Friday began hearing an appeal by ex-president PW Botha against a conviction of contempt after his refusal to appear before the truth commission probing apartheid-era abuses. Botha, (82), is not attending the hearing, choosing to stay in his home town of George where […]
HEADS of state, royalty, prime ministers and a host of other dignitaries are set to arrive in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday, as preparations step up for ceremonies marking the end of military rule. Olusegun Obasanjo is due to be sworn in Saturday as Nigeria’s third elected president, ending more than 15 years of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Sunday 3.00pm. TWO Zimbabwean journalists who allege they were tortured while in military detention early this year have formally laid civil charges against the police and army. Editor Mark Chavunduka and reporter Ray Choto, in a report carried in their paper the Sunday Standard, said they had filed their complaints with […]
FORMER South Africa captain Tiaan Strauss was voted Australia’s second best player in the Super 12 rugby after a strong season with the New South Wales Waratahs. ACT Brumbies fullback Joe Roff was named Australia’s best player on Thursday. Roff, picked on Monday to play on the wing in the first test against Ireland in […]
THE Egyptian parliament has approved a law severely limiting the rights of non-governmental organisations despite fierce opposition from human rights groups. The legislation on associations and private institutions passed late on Wednesday with no amendments to any of its 75 articles, including one that bans NGOs from carrying out ”political, union or military activity that […]
THE Department of Justice said on Wednesday that it is to publish the December salary increases of public prosecutors and state advocates in the Government Gazette on Friday, ”Once published, our department’s financial section will immediately start to process the increments into their salaries,” spokesman Paul Setsetse said. Three trade unions representing prosecutors and state […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Chelmsford | Saturday 7.30pm. NEIL Johnson has stolen the World Cup spotlight from some of the tournament’s more illustrious names after propelling Zimbabwe into the Super Six stage with a telling all-round performance against South Africa. Johnson, who opened the batting and the bowling, made his highest Cup score of 76 and produced […]