A COURT in northern Rwanda has sentenced seven people to death for crimes against humanity committed during the 1994 genocide, the Rwandan news agency ARI reported on Wednesday. Another five of the 25 defendants in the case heard in Ruhengeri received life terms, while one will serve a year and the rest were acquitted. More […]
WATER Affairs Minister Kader Asmal will on Tuesday open a R220-million rural water and sanitation project for the Northern Province. The launch follows trade and development agreements signed on April 6 by European Union ambassador Michael Laidler and Deputy Finance Minister Gill Marcus. The project will concentrate on the southern, western, central and Lowveld districts […]
WITH the Springboks facing a captaincy crisis, why not bring back inspirational flank Ruben Kruger, who led the Northern Bulls in their best-yet Super 12 outing on Saturday, to skipper the national side? Springbok captain Gary Teichmann, vice-captain Joost van der Westhuizen and the man tipped to usurp Teichmann, Bobby Skinstad, are all sidelined with […]
BRITISH national Ian Karl Lowe was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Moroccan court on Tuesday after nearly four tons of cannabis resin were found aboard a truck he was driving, judicial officials said. The 3910kg load of chira, worth an estimated $50-million, was found hidden under a cargo of clothes destined for […]
RESCUERS may be close to reaching missing miners Lawrence Molise Tsolo and John Befile Delekile as the search was narrowed to an area of about 300 square metres on Wednesday night. Anglogold spokesman Andries Van Zyl said rescue teams have reached the stopes where the missing men were working when the earthquake, measuring 4,6 on […]
A ONE-ARMED man robbed two women near the Gracelands casino at Secunda of R45 000 on Wednesday. Police spokeswoman Inspector Sibongile Nkosi said on Thursday that the women were taking the money to First National Bank, about 500m from the Foschini branch where they worked, when the one-armed man held them up with a gun.
ACCORDING to delegates to the International Freedom of Expression Exchange conference in Cape Town, a certain Justice Mahapela Lehohla of Lesotho is running a personal vendetta against the press. Lehohla evicts from his court all journalists he considers to be inappropriately dressed, despite the fact that no other judges take umbrage to the same garments. […]
TRADE and Industry Department chief director of business regulation and consumer services Alistair Ruiters has been appointed a commissioner on the Competition Commission, Cabinet announced on Wednesday. The five-year appointment will see the Commission investigate corporate behaviour according to often controversial guidelines outlined in the Competition Act. Ruiters will be leaving the DTI, having been […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM: STORM clouds are gathering on the horizon for the Premier Soccer League. In the latest incident of controversy, the PSL has switched Sunday’s BobSave Superbowl semifinal between premier league outfit Sundowns and First Division squad Seven Stars from Nyanga stadium to Athlone. The PSL had previously declared Nyanga a “fit” venue. Downs had […]
BUREAUCRATIC bungling and deliberate political interference by the Northern Province cabinet has delayed 15 major corruption investigations by two years, the New National Party (NNP) said on Wednesday. NNP provincial leader, Tjol Lategan, also said in a statement on Wednesday that the province has yet to proclaim a single investigation request by Judge Willem Heath’s […]