ELEPHANTS in the Kruger National Park have been spared the bullet for this year, but their reprieve may be short-lived. “We will not be culling this year,” said Dr Leo Braack, general manager for the park’s conservation development department on Wednesday. “But if we are to cull, we will likely do so next year,” he […]
FORMER Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda arrived in Johannesburg on Tuesday to address a pre-election conference on democracy, Independent Electoral Commission spokesman Victor Dlamini said. Kaunda is one of several international guests who will speak at the conference organised by the IEC. Former Botswanan president Sir Ketumile Masire is among the other guests invited to address […]
HUNDREDS of Cape Town taxi operators gathered outside the provincial legislature building on Wednesday after blocking the major routes into the city on Wednesday morning. The drivers, members of the Convention for a Democratic Taxi Association and the Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association, are demanding provincial government revise conditions for issuing road transport permits. They claim […]
BRENDA Webb and daughter Colleen on Sunday wrote their own chapter in South African sporting history by becoming the first mother and daughter to win their sections in the singles event in a national championship. The two, playing in the women’s national in Port Elizabeth, reached the last 32 of the singles and play again […]
MALAWI have included two South African-based footballers in the squad for a Castle Cup Southern Africa championship match against Angola in Blantyre on April 24. Defender Patrick Mabedi comes from Johannesburg glamour club Kaizer Chiefs while midfielder John Maduka plays for the less fashionable Eastern Cape club Bush Bucks. National coach Jack Chamangwana has included […]
AN 18-year-old youth was shot dead on the Cape Flats on Tuesday in what is thought to be a gang-related killing. Police spokesman Captain Jacques Wiese on Wednesday said Craig Martin of Westridge was shot in the back during a fight between the Jakkies and School Boys gangs. He died at the scene. On Monday, […]
OVER 100 pupils from the Dumezweni Senior Secondary School near Umtata, Transkei have been arrested, after beating their principal nearly to death. Zuko Vundle was confronted by pupils over the issue of teacher redeployment, before they took to stoning him and beating him with sticks. They then held him hostage, along with other teachers, before […]
THE Swaziland Electricity Board plans to cut ties with Eskom once the 400kv power line to Mozambique is complete. A Swaziland Environmental Authority action plan reveals that SEB is making arrangements to purchase electric power from Mozambique because hydro-power prices are lower than Eskom. ”At the moment there is really nothing we can do until […]
FOUR members of the vigilante group Mapogo were arrested by Mpumalanga police at the weekend after they allegedly threw a number of people into a crocodile-infested dam to extract confessions. Another two members were arrested in another incident for allegedly kidnapping a man.
MONDAY, 5.30PM: MEMBERSHIP of South African trade unions rose 13% last year, to 64% of the 5,4-million workers in registered in non-agricultural employment, labour ministry announced on Monday. Releasing the ministry’s annual report, Labour Minister Tito Mboweni said that registered unions now represent over 3,4-million members. Total union membership comprises about 24% of South Africa’s […]