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 […]
Aaron Nicodemus A quiet revolution in dealing with rape victims is happening at a small, privately funded safe house behind the Amanzimtoti police station, just south of Durban. Open since December, the safe house’s organisers were able to obtain free AZT from its manufacturer, and are dispensing the first three treatments free of charge to […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
TOP military brass from Rwanda, Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo rebels inspected their allied troops on Tuesday ahead of an apparent offensive against southeastern provincial capitals. Wearing unmarked fatigues, generals Kayumba Nyamwansa of Rwanda, Jeje Odongo of Uganda and Celestin Ilunga of the military wing of the Congolese Rally for Democracy — the main […]
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 […]
A PAY strike in Zimbabwe paralysed postal and some telecommunication services went into its second day on Wednesday, Post and Telecommunications Corporation human resources manager Mike Nxele said. Nxele said the parastatal has offered workers a 15% pay rise in addition to the 20% cost of living adjustment demanded by the country’s powerful national labour […]