THE lover of South Africa’s alleged cash-heist kingpin, Collin Chauke, will appear in the Nelspruit district court on Wednesday on charges of harbouring a wanted a criminal. Duduzile Rejoice Nkosi (30) has already appeared twice in court on the charge and has not been asked to plead. She is out on bail of R1000. Nkosi […]
POP idol Michael Jackson said on Tuesday he will stage two concerts in June to raise funds for South African President Nelson Mandela’s children’s fund, the Red Cross and UNESCO. The first concert will be held in the Olympic stadium in Seoul on June 25, and will be followed two days later by a performance […]
A GROUP of armed Liberian soldiers who stormed a village in the western part of the country looted homes and raped several women, independent radio reports said in the capital, Monrovia, on Wednesday. The incident occurred last week in Dambala, 110km west of Monrovia, in a town bordering neighbouring Sierra Leone. The rampaging soldiers, who […]
THE ruling Togolese People’s Assembly (RPT) won 79 of the 81 seats in the national assembly in weekend elections boycotted by the opposition, the head of the national electoral commission said late on Tuesday. Electoral head Abdoulaye Yaya said on state television that turn-out reached 66%, while the opposition said only 10% of voters cast […]
FOREIGN bidders, particularly those from Asia, were conspicuously absent from the 1999 Nederberg Wine Auction held at the weekend. Local buyers snapped up some 84% of sales at the premier wine auction, with foreign buyers coming in with very thin demand. Namibia bought 6,22% of sales, with only Denmark and Sweden showing much interest in […]
A GAUTENG man was fined R11000 in the Estcourt Magistrate’s Court for speeding and failing to stop when instructed to do so by a traffic officer. KwaZulu-Natal traffic spokesperson Vijen Murugan said Mitch Visser’s driver’s licence was also suspended for six months after he was clocked driving at 200km/h on the N3 near Estcourt on […]
OVERALL business confidence rose by one percentage point but remained at a very low level during the first quarter of the year, according to a survey released by the Bureau for Economic Research on Tuesday. The bureau said the small rise in its index suggests that the recessionary conditions of the second half of 1998 […]
AT least 20 people were killed when a passenger train derailed and overturned between the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and the port city of Mombasa early on Wednesday, police said. The accident occurred between Kyulu and Tsavo river next to Tsavo National Park, in southern Kenya. Police spokesperson Albert Waweru said some carriages fell off the […]
MAIZE prices tumbled early on Tuesday following widespread rain at the weekend, traders said. Futures on white maize sagged across the board, falling as much as the R30 daily limit in the April contract. Dealings were thin following the three-day weekend. South Africa released its second official estimate for this year’s maize harvest on Friday, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.30pm. GREATER Johannesburg is R2,1-billion in debt, R1-billion of which is irrecoverable, says Kenny Fihla, chairman of Johannesburg’s Transformation Lekgotla [committee]. Interest owed on that debt is at least R721-million. The debt burden threatens to sideline eGoli 2002, the inner-city renewal plan touted by the Lekgotla. “No financial institution will […]