ALLAN Boesak, who has petitioned the Chief Justice for leave to appeal following his recent six-year sentence for theft, has confirmed that his wife Elna is five months pregnant with their second child. “I’m ecstatic,” Boesak is reported in the Cape Times as saying. He was sentenced in March to six years imprisonment for stealing […]
A JOINT team of the Heath Special Investigative Unit, the Public Protector and the Auditor-General on Monday began investigating allegations of corruption against the Gauteng housing department. Officials from the three units, as well senior members of the housing department, addressed a Johannesburg press conference to announce to start of the investigation. This followed the […]
CONSTRUCTION firm LTA Earthworks Africa announced in Johannesburg on Friday that it has won a major rehabilitation project valued at R200-million in Ethiopia. The project is a joint venture with CCC and Balfour Beatty and is financed by the World Bank. Peter Davies, LTA Earthworks’ general manager (Africa) said the Gewane-Mille project in Ethiopia consists […]
ARMY rebels torched the presidential palace and the French embassy in Guinea-Bissau on Friday, the second day of heavy fighting in the capital Bissau, Portuguese and French sources reported. The residence of President Joao Bernardo Vieira, who has reportedly asked for asylum after his troops were defeated by mutinous soldiers, was ablaze like the French […]
THE two journalists from The Standard Mark Chavunduka and Ray Choto, have returned to Zambia after spending two months receiving medical and psychological treatment from London’s Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. Although the Medical Foundation wanted the two, who were illegally detained and tortured by the military, to continue receiving treatment, […]
SECURITY has been tightened in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands town of Richmond ahead of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki’s visit to the area on Sunday. Roadblocks have been set up in the main entrances of the town and the nearby residential areas of Endaleni and Magoda. Both defence and police force personnel are patrolling the ANC stronghold […]
A CHARGE of being in possession of a stolen vehicle was withdrawn against Kaizer Chiefs midfielder Lifa Gqosha when he appeared in the Protea regional court in Soweto on Thursday. Soweto police spokesman Inspector John Shiburi on Thursday said that police had withdrawn charges against Gqosha of possession of a stolen vehicle and resisting arrest, […]
WESTERN Cape radio personality Martin Jordison announced on Wednesday he has been given the number three slot on the Federal Alliance’s list of candidates for the Western Cape legislature. Jordison said he supports the FA’s opposition to affirmative action legislation and its commitment to “transformation through upliftment” rather than “through decay to achieve a lower […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Hove | Thursday 10.00am. EXTRACTS, or rather “adaptations,” from South African pace bowler Allan Donald’s autobiography published in The Express this week have apparently raised more than a few hackles. Donald, in three printed extracts has taken to task the England team, West Indian captain Brian Lara and England allrounder Dominic Cork. And […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Djibouti | Saturday 8.00pm. NEW President Ismael Omar Guelleh was sworn in as head of state of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa on Saturday at a ceremony attended by leaders from Sudan, Kenya and Ethiopia. Omar Guelleh, 52, was elected on April 9 and had already been seen as an heir-designate to […]