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 […]
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. […]
MOZAMBIQUE’s second multiparty general elections, due in October, may be postponed to early 2000 because preparations are behind schedule, a government official said on Thursday. “The elections will have to be postponed unless the National Elections Commission (CNE) manages to squeeze the entire electoral timetable,” said minister of state administration, Afredo Gamito. The CNE should […]
FAILURE to meet export requirements, declining demand for locally produced goods and interference from the labour movement have forced some companies to withdraw from Namibia’s Walvis Bay Export Processing Zone (EPZ), an economic watch group says. This is taking place barely three years after Namibia’s EPZ plans got off the ground. In its quarterly review […]
AN international uproar is brewing in the small KwaZulu-Natal holiday town of St Lucia after a local guest house reportedly turned a senior Dutch diplomat and his family away on racist grounds. Namib Chalets allegedly barred Netherlands diplomat Dr WHLM Hoppers and his family from the guest house in December after finding out the family […]
MARK FISH pledged on Tuesday to help Bolton Wanderers, his English club, get back into the English Premiership, denying rumours he wanted to leave. Despite Bolton’s recent slump, with the club fifth in division one and nine points adrift of an automatic promotion place, Fish said: “There’s nine games to go and there’s no way […]