A DELEGATION from armaments parastatal Denel will be represented on this week’s high-powered trade visit to Libya. However, CEO Max Sisulu said at the weekend that Denel is not planning to sell weapons to Libya. He said: “We are not going there to sell arms, we are going there to sell South Africa.” Sisulu noted […]
JAPAN will join international observers to monitor South Africa’s general elections on June 2 by sending six people, the foreign ministry said on Friday. The six will monitor polling stations and ballot counting, a foreign ministry official said. South Africa has asked for some 500 international monitors, the ministry said. In February, the Japanese government […]
LONDON’S The Sunday Times claims it has evidence that Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi played a direct part in ordering the 1998 Lockerbie bombing of a PanAm jet. The paper said it is unable to publish full details of its evidence after Treasury Solicitors said that unless certain information is removed from the report, they will […]
THE Sea Fisheries Officials at Gansbaai in the Southern Cape on Monday warned the public not to eat potentially poisonous shell fish which has washed out onto the beaches. SABC radio news reports that Sea Fisheries spokesman Stanley Dramat said it is unclear what caused the washout of shell fish, which included starfish, abalone and […]
MANCHESTER United, the English Premiership club chasing multiple European football honours, has followed Ajax Amsterdam by signing up with a Cape Town club. United, known by the Old Trafford faithful as “The Reds”, have signed a deal with FC Fortune making the Cape club their official youth soccer player development representative in southern Africa. The […]
HOUT Bay police officer Inspector Andre Ferreira will apply for bail on Monday afternoon at the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court after he was arrested by the Independent Complaints Directorate last Thursday in connection with charges of murder, perjury and attempting to defeat the ends of justice. Ferreira two weeks ago shot dead a suspect after […]
THE main rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Rally for Congolese Democracy, has chosen Dr Emile Ilunga as its new chairman, replacing Professor Ernest Wamba dia Wamba who was ousted on Sunday night. Both the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Voice of America reported yesterday that Dr Ilunga, a medical doctor from […]
A SELF-PROCLAIMED Nigerian prophet who in March predicted that Nigeria’s president-elect Olusegun Obasanjo will not be sworn in as president said he still stands by his words. “I am sure of what I saw, heard and I stand by it,” Pastor Tunde Bakare of Latter Rain Assembly told Monday’s edition of the independent newspaper The […]
THE Department of Agriculture said at the weekend that it will not issues permits for the movement and slaughter of baboons to an abattoir on which construction was due to begin on Monday. Department concultant Dr Hym Ebedes said that as a result, the abattoir is unlikely to get off the ground. He added that […]
THE Malawian meets in the capital Lilongwe on Friday to amend the constitution in order to pave way for a new date for the rescheduled presidential and parliamentary elections. A bill has already been discussed and approved by cabinet, giving a symbolic official stamp to the extraordinary parliament sitting which president Bakili Muluzi and speaker […]