AFRICAN National Congress Women’s League stalwart Adelaide Tambo underwent a two-hour surgical operation at Johannesburg’s Milpark hospital on Monday morning after being injured in a car accident over the weekend. Tambo, widow of late ANC president Oliver Tambo, was rushed to hospital by ambulance after an allegedly drunk driver collided with her car in Sharpeville […]

LIBERIAN President Charles Taylor on Saturday reinstated cabinet ministers and heads of public corporations whom he sacked last week for failing to attend a national prayer service. In a radio address, Taylor said he took the decision based on appeals “for clemency for the dismissed officials from all quarters of our society, including the religious […]

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 […]

THE African National Congress and the Gauteng division of the Inkatha Freedom Party resolved to postpone the opening of the Thokoza Monument until after the June 2 elections. The move was taken to “ensure peace and foster reconciliation”. Campaign duties prevent the presidents of the parties being present before the poll, and their participation will […]

THE Department of Home Affairs has announced it will open its offices around the country every day until the election next Wednesday to allow registered voters to collect identity documents. The department said in a statement that all its offices will be open from 8am to 4pm from Monday until June 2.

ALAN Boesak, disgraced former anti-apartheid cleric, on Monday makes his first important appeal against his six-month jail sentence. Boesak and his legal team have until Monday afternoon to submit their final legal documentation on the plea on four counts of fraud and theft. A senior clerk at the appellate division in Cape Town, Amanda Gouws, […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]