NIGERIAN footballer Peter Rufai prefers football to the prospect of becoming king of a million people in succession to his late father. Spanish press reports said on Tuesday that the 35-year-old reserve goalie for Spanish first division side Deportivo de la Coruna is being urged to return home to become king of the Idimu in […]
INFLATION in Nigeria rose sharply in the second half of 1998, hitting an estimated annual rate of 15% in December, according to a government report published on Wednesday. “Inflation rose from a low level of 6% in the 12-month period ending March 1998 to an estimated 15% in December 1998,” says the report prepared by […]
ALPHIE, the baby chimpanzee rescued from a cage in Krugersdorp by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, is flying to Zambia on Friday. Alphie, who was found chained in a small cage in the home of a South African truck driver two weeks ago, is going to the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage, a private sanctuary in […]
THE police museum in Pretoria was last week closed to visitors after the building was declared unsafe, police said on Wednesday. Management Services head Commissioner Louis Eloff said in a statement a prohibition notice was served on the museum on Friday in terms of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. About 30 staff moved to […]
THE government of Chad this week admitted that it faces a new armed insurgency in the desert north of the country, but has played down the scale of the rebellion, claiming to have the upper hand.In a first acknowledgement of unrest in the Tibesti region on the border with Niger and Libya, Defence Minister Oumar […]
THE United Nations Commission on Human Rights urged the Rwandan government on Wednesday to free about 125000 people who are languishing in jail and at risk of contracting diseases. “The conditions of detention remain deplorable in Rwanda,” where tens of thousands of people are awaiting trial on charges of involvement in the 1994 genocide, special […]
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 […]
THE Democratic Party’s only black woman MP, Dr Bukelwa Mbulawa, defected on Wednesday to the African National Congress. Mbulawa was the DP’s first black woman MP and her defection follows that of former deputy party leader William Mnisi, who opted to join the National Party last year. The DP is now left with one black […]
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 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 7.00pm. KAIZER Chiefs face a determined Bush Bucks squad in their BobSave Super Bowl quarterfinal match in Umtata and will need to be firing on all cylinders to make the semis. Surprise quarterfinalists Ria Stars face SuperSport United, who are odds-on favourites to move through this round to face the […]