THE Egyptian parliament has unanimously scrapped a century-old law that exempted a rapist from punishment if he married his victim, a parliamentary source said on Tuesday. Parliament adopted the change on Monday evening. The move came amid a media campaign that followed outrage from women’s groups over the freeing in December of three rape suspects […]
SWAZILAND, with a population of less than one million, now has the third highest rate of HIV infection in the world. (South Africa has the highest.) More than 300000 Swazis are already living with HIV. It is estimated that between 2000 and 2015 between 30 – 40000 people will die of Aids each year. The […]
THE Democratic Republic of Congo have been disqualified from the All-Africa Games qualifiers, the African Football Confederation (CAF) announced Tuesday. DR Congo failed to arrive in the Central African Republic for a second-round match this month and their opponents face Cameroon during July for a place at the finals. CAF said Senegal would stage the […]
ANGOLAN separatist rebels of the Cabinda Enclave Liberation Front said on Tuesday they urgently want to negotiate with Paris the release of two French hostages abducted in March, together with two Portuguese.On March 10, a French employee of oil company LPF and another from Boyangol — the Angolan subsidiary of the French Bouygues group — […]
SEVEN Stars continued their winning streak with a 4-1 win over Bush Bucks in a Castle Premier League match at the Independence Stadium in Umtata on Sunday. Veteran striker Bennett Masinga opened the score in the third minute for the Cape Town team with a header and Junaid Hartley scored two more (in the 35th […]
THE organisers of a campaign to urge the government to provide rape survivors with the drugs which are thought to lessen the chances of contracting HIV/Aids have called on supporters to make a noise at noon on Thursday. Organisers, who include People Opposed to Women Abuse, the Union of Jewish Women and the Sandton Crisis […]
COMMANDOS and police in Mpumalanga have arrested 1694 illegal immigrants and criminals since the beginning of the month. Offences included illegal border crossings, possession of unregistered guns, and assault, said army spokeswoman Lize Pienaar in a statement on Wednesday. “This was a result of deploying our commando units to work jointly with the police at […]
SOME 18000 Anglo American Platinum Corporation (Amplats) workers embarked on strike action at two if its mines on Wednesday. Striking workers, organised by the Mouthpeace Workers Union, came out on strike at the Rustenburg and Union platinum mines, to protest management’s insistence that National Union of Mineworkers be included in a task team to investigate […]
THE Democratic Party has called on government to unilaterally deduct money from the salaries of all officials and politicians who refuse to pay child maintenance. The call follows revelations that a string of senior Mpumalanga leaders have dodged paying child maintenance for up to ten months at a time. DP spokesman Manny De Camara said […]
LIBYA is to get Russian S-300 surface-to-air missiles now that sanctions against that country have been lifted, the head of the Russian firm which makes the weapon was quoted Tuesday as saying. Yuri Rodin-Sova, president of the Russian group Oboronitelnye Systemy, said: “I won’t be betraying a secret in saying that Libya has approached us […]