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 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 […]

A HIGH-LEVEL political row has broken out in Austria over the death of a Nigerian deportee, who suffocated to death on a plane on which he was held bound and gagged. Austrian President Thomas Klestil has called for a full inquiry into the death of Marcus Omafumo, who had worked abroad in Germany for many […]

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 […]

MPUMALANGA transport MEC Jackson Mthembu narrowly escaped death on Sunday morning when he lost control of his government issue Mercedes Benz and rolled the vehicle while on his way home.Police spokesman Sergeant Leonard Hlathi said on Monday that the vehicle was badly damaged when it hit two separate traffic signs on the Beatlaan Road in […]

LAWRENCE Dallaglio, captain of England’s rugby side, is quoted in the British tabloid News of the World saying he used to deal in drugs, and that he and unnamed England teammates celebrated the Lions’ 1997 2-1 Test series victory over South Africa with Ecstasy and cocaine. The Rugby Football Union has issued a statement saying […]

PRESIDENTIAL and legislative elections in Malawi have been postponed from May 25 to June 15, the electoral commission announced on Monday. Chief elections officer Roosevelt Gondwe said the new date was reached on Sunday night following an amendment to the law by an emergency parliamentary session on Friday. The election date has thus been moved […]

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 […]

PHIL BLENKINSOP, Amstelveen | Monday 2.15pm. FRESH from their destruction of England, South Africa undertake a one-game continental tour to face winless Kenya on Wednesday with only one result possible. A defeat for the tournament favourites would be a shock measuring nine on the cricket Richter scale but the expected victory for South Africa would […]

SACHIN TENDULKAR, grieving over the death of his father, will rejoin the Indian team in time for their World Cup match against Sri Lanka on May 26, team officials confirmed here on Thursday. Manager Brijesh Patel said he was informed of Tendulkar’s return by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Tendulkar, the key […]