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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 10.30am. FORMER Springbok captain Tiann Strauss was on Monday named in Australia’s 22-man squad. Strauss became eligible to play for Australia this season after completing his three year residential term, although he was named as a replacement. David Wilson was reappointed as Wallaby rugby captain, replacing injured skipper John […]