THIRTEEN South African fishermen were presumed drowned off the country’s Eastern Cape coast on Tuesday after rescue services called off a two-day air and sea search for their sunken trawler. During the intensive search, the bodies of three of the 16 crew were fished out of the rough seas Monday off the small port of […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
TRAGEDY was averted during the Three Tenors concert on Sunday night when 3000 fans were moved out of two stands which were at the point of collapsing. An estimated 35 000 people, including President Nelson Mandela, heard Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo deliver a fine performance in the gardens of the Union Buildings, […]
ALL school computers in South Africa could get free software if the government accepts a formal offer from Corel Corporation to provide the material. Company CEO Michael Cowpland has offered to provide Corel WordPerfect, for the Linux operating system, for each school computer, free of charge. He said that although the offer is free, it […]
FORMER Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda is expected in the country early this week for seminar on democracy in South African organised by the Independent Electoral Commission. Kaunda will present a paper at the seminar to be held at the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria on April 21 to 23, said IEC spokesperson […]
FUEL prices are likely to rise by as much as 20c a litre early next month following recent rises in world oil prices. Figures from the Central Energy Fund show a price underrecovery of some 17c per litre. If oil prices remain at their current levels, the petrol price will have to be raised by […]