AUSTRIAN journalist Peter Cvetko was shot dead after his car broke down in Houghton Drive, Johannesburg on Wednesday morning. Cvetko (39) was a temporary resident in South Africa. Police spokesperson Inspector Mark Reynolds said he was on his way home from visiting friends in Hillbrow when the car broke down. He called the Automobile Association […]
VIRGIN Atlantic Airways owned by British entrepreneur Richard Branson has pulled out of talks with Nigeria’s state-owned carrier over a co-operation pact. The British airline decided to scrap talks with Nigeria Airways after opposition to their proposed deal emerged from the Nigerian government and industry bodies. The Nigerian government last month criticised the proposed deal, […]
AUSTRIAN journalist Peter Cvetko was shot dead after his car broke down in Houghton Drive, Johannesburg on Wednesday morning. Cvetko (39) was a temporary resident in South Africa. Police spokesperson Inspector Mark Reynolds said he was on his way home from visiting friends in Hillbrow when the car broke down. He called the Automobile Association […]
JUDGE Willem Heath’s anti-corruption unit has issued a subpoena to Absa for documents regarding the R1,1-billion Reserve Bank lifeboat to the Bankorp Group. Heath is probing the rescue package, and needs Absa’s documentation to complete its investigation. Gerhard Visagie, senior legal representative of the Heath unit, said Absa has not responded to the subpoena, but […]
WESTERN Cape political leaders on Wednesday signed a peace pledge committing their parties to a path of non-violence ahead of the general elections scheduled for May. This comes after five political leaders — four members of the United Democratic Movement and an African National Congress councillor — were murdered last week in Nyanga and KTC […]
A TRADITIONAL Nigerian rainmaker was killed by lightning this week as he climbed on to a building and attempted to divert a storm. The man, known as Rasaq, was employed by a family in Abeokuta, south-western Nigeria, to hold off the rain threatening a burial wake. Wearing only a pair of red shorts, Rasaq had […]
OUTSPOKEN Mpumalanga African National Congress youth league secretary James Nkambule is being treated for burn wounds after attackers petrol-bombed his car and front yard early on Thursday morning. The unknown attackers reportedly hurled two petrol bombs at Nkambule’s brand new car outside his Barberton house just after 3am. Nkambule sustained slight burn injuries when he […]
NIGERIAN-led Ecomog intervention force troops repelled a rebel attack against the northern Sierra Leonean town of Kambia earlier this week, Ecomog officials said on Thursday. They said rebels entered the town of Pamalap, close to Kambia and about 80km north of the capital, Freetown, on Monday. An Ecomog contingent of Guinean troops “opened up with […]
MOZAMBICAN President Joaquim Chissano confirmed on Wednesday that his government will introduce a Value Added Tax (VAT) on the scheduled date of April 1, despite pleas for a nine-month postponement from virtually the entire formal business sector. Chissano, speaking through his press spokesperson Antonio Matonse, told the independent newsheet Metical that the VAT is a […]
THE US government has set aside an economic assistance budget of $711,3-million for Africa in 1999, a large chunk of which goes to the promotion of family planning and protection of human health. A breakdown of the 1999 budget for Africa by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) shows that $253-million has been allocated […]