THE National Union of Mineworkers announced on Wednesday a breakthrough in attempts to reinstate over 950 dismissed workers at Grootgeluk Mine near Ellisras after negotiations with mine management. But mine management has denied any “breakthroughs”. The “breakthrough” follows one week of violent protest at the mine after management sacked 450 striking workers last week and […]
A CENTURY by Kennedy Otieno helped Kenya beat Bangladesh by 73 runs on Wednesday and assure them a place in the final against Zimbabwe in the three-nation cricket tournament. Man-of-the-match Otieno hit six towering sixes and eight fours to reach his 120, helping Kenya to score 231 in 48.4 overs in Dhaka. Steve Tikolo took […]
EGYPT earned $156,4-million in January from Suez Canal receipts, the same as in December, 1998, the cabinet’s March statistical bulletin said on Thursday. The receipts were $145,0-million in January, 1998, it said. The canal is a main source of hard currency for Egypt, along with expatriated remittances, tourism and oil.
HIGH profile leader of the Hard Livings gang, Rashied Staggie, is in hospital on Thursday afternoon after being shot outside his home in what appears to be a drive-by shooting. Police spokeperson Captain Anine de Beer told ZA*NOW that the shooting took place outside Staggie’s Oletta Court home on the Cape Flats at around 1.15pm. […]
AT least 32 people were killed and 26 injured when a passenger train derailed and overturned between the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and the port city of Mombasa early on Wednesday, police said. Of the injured, 23 are deemed in critical condition. The Kenyan army and African Medical and Research Foundation have sent plane to assist […]
A 63-year-old Hungarian herbalist charged with raping two young girls and indecently assaulting six others was refused bail by the Belfast Regional Court in Mpumalanga on Thursday. Charles Joseph Baksai of Machadodorp also faces eight child labour charges. Regional Magistrate Charles Combrink said as rape was involved, the defence has to prove that granting bail […]
THE Central Bank of Nigeria has devalued the currency by 4,34% from 86.25 naira to 90 to the dollar, officials said on Thursday. The move, announced on the country’s Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market on Wednesday, follows pressure from the International Monetary Fund to bring the currency into line with market forces. The naira sells for […]
THE Inkatha Freedom Party has called for severe disciplinary action to be taken against the editor of Durban daily Ilanga following publication of a racist editorial on Wednesday. Ilanga editor, Amos Maphumulo, in his leader article on Wednesday, wished that South Africa might one day be blessed with the birth of a new Idi Amin. […]
KENYAN solicitor general Judge Aaron Ringera has been appointed the new director of the country’s anti-corruption authority, according to a news release from the presidential press service. He replaces John Harun Mwau, who was suspended last August and became the subject of a tribunal to find out if he was competent to head the authority. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Thursday 1.50pm. BOB WOOLMER, who quit as South Africa’s cricket coach last weekend, says he is tempted by the prospect of taking charge of England in place of David Lloyd. However, Woolmer said on Wednesday he has not been approach by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) as they search […]