A ZAMBIAN magistrate on Friday committed 12 journalists from an independent newspaper who are facing espionage charges to the high court. The journalists from the Post newspaper, who include the managing director and editor, Fred M’membe, were separately arrested and charged with espionage, which carries a minimum jail term of twenty years, after their paper […]
A PERUVIAN national, Oscar Werner Davis (28), pleaded guilty to charges of possessing cocaine with a street value of R3,2-million in Cape Town’s Magistrate’s Court on Friday, SABC radio news reported. Davis was arrested earlier this month at a Green Point hotel after allegedly selling cocaine to an undercover police agent. More cocaine was found […]
Charlene Smith The police have arrested a suspect in my rape case. Since then the calls he had been making to me after the rape, two or three times a day, have stopped. During the calls he vowed to return, threatened my life and asked me to put more money into my bank account for […]
A couple of years ago the taste in publishing was for the self-lacerating memoir. Many writers set out to put the raw facts about their lives on the page. Now the game has moved on to memoirs by relatives, friends, former lovers – people with secrets that the subjects of those memoirs might have preferred […]
How do you feel when a white woman looks at you and tightens the grip on her sling-bag, sure that all you have on your mind are her possessions? Like an African male, that’s how. This, to be sure, is how many white people think of you: a crime about to happen. And that is […]
FOUR illegal Mozambican immigrants who escaped from Skukuza police cells in the Kruger National Park this week were still at large on Thursday, bringing the total of escaped prisoners in the province since January to 151, with only 42 rearrested. Sergeant Thabisile Gama said the men escaped at 6pm on Tuesday, as police prepared to […]
SOUTH Africa has imposed a R181 a ton import levy on wheat and a R272 a ton duty on imported flour, the National Chamber of Milling said on Wednesday. The milling industry representative body welcomed the introduction of tariff protection for SA’s wheat farmers in the face of continuing state support for producers in leading […]
WEDNESDAY, 6.30PM: SRI Lanka beat Pakistan by a mammoth 115 runs in their Standard Bank Triangular cricket match at Willowmore Park on Wednesday. Chasing a score of 288 set by the Lankans, the Pakistanis were bundled out for a paltry 173 runs in 39,2 overs. Saeed Anwar top-scored for the Pakistanis, making 59 runs. Lankan […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kampala | Thursday 2.30pm. REBELS in western Uganda killed at least 10 people during an attack on a trading centre, press reports said on Thursday. The independent Monitor newspaper said the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels early on Wednesday attacked Nyakigumba Trading Centre in the Kabarole district. Among the dead were a Ugandan […]
A PUBLIC sector strike launched in 24 of Nigeria’s 36 states was picking up support as it entered its third day, union officials said Thursday. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) ordered the strike to begin Tuesday to press state governments to start paying all workers a monthly minimum wage agreed last month of 3000 naira […]