MORE than 10000 Zimbabwean postal and telecommunications workers called off their strike on Thursday after the government doubled its offer of a wage hike from 15% to 30%. The workers closed down post offices throughout the country on Tuesday demanding a 45% pay rise. The postal service “decided in the national interest to award a […]
RESCUE services on Monday launched an air and sea search for the remaining 13 crew of a missing South African trawler after the bodies of three crew were recovered off the Eastern Cape coast, police said. The bodies were recovered mid-Monday in the Indian Ocean off the fishing port of Cape St. Francis, police Superintendent […]
AFRICAN National Congress chief whip in the National ssembly, Tony Yengeni, on Monday said he will ”definitely not” be his party’s candidate for Western Cape premier. He said ANC president Thabo Mbeki and the party’s national executive committee will decide who its premiership candidates would be. He has not been approached. ”I have always accepted […]
BOTSWANA sold 17,8 tons of ivory by auction to a group of Japanese buyers on Saturday, Ministry of Commerce and Industry deputy permanent secretary Vincent Selato confirmed on Monday. Proceeds from the sale, which were not divulged, are to be used to aid conservation, largely for the management of Botswana’s elephant population, which numbers between […]
South Africa have drawn Ukraine, Denmark and Latvia in their Europe/Africa Fed Cup Group I qualifying tournament. The first seeded South Africans will play Denmark on Monday.
A MAN has appeared in court, charged with the Charlene Smith rape that made headlines two weeks ago. Police have opposed bail for the man, who also has an outstanding murder charge against him. Smith reports that abusive phone calls from the rapist, which she received several times a day both before and after the […]
FALCONS have signed four Tongan players for the next Currie Cup campaign. Coach Phil Pretorius, who is also a coaching adviser to the Tongan national team, has agreed to bring backrow forwards Johnny Koloi, Vic Tulutu, scrumhalf Sililo Martens and centre Salesi Finau to South Africa. The quartet will join the Falcons in May once […]
AIDS is killing around 1 200 people a week in Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe said on Sunday. Mugabe revealed the figures at a rally to mark the country’s independence anniversary. “The diseases situation in 1998 was dominated by the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic. With an estimated average of some 1 200 AIDS-related deaths per week, AIDS […]
EGYPTIAN President Hosni Mubarak inaugurated the first subway line beneath the Nile River on Sunday. Cairo started expanding an underground commuter railway a decade ago to relieve traffic congestion and has just finished phase three. The third portion of the city’s second metro line links Sadat station in central Tahrir Square, site of the Nile […]
PROFESSIONAL golfer Wimpie Botha was killed in a car accident after the third round of the Vodacom Tour’s Lombard Tyres Classic at the Krugersdorp Golf Club on Friday. The accident occurred only a few kilometres from the club after Botha, 28, had left the pro-am prizegiving on Friday night. Botha, in his sixth year as […]