ANOTHER Mpumamlanga official has resigned over a corruption scandal after police accused him of over R1-million in thefts last week. Revenue services deputy director Willie Steenkamp was allowed to resign quietly from government last Monday after signing a confession that he stole at least R530000 from a provincial suspense account. He was formally charged with […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kinshasa | Monday 8.00pm. DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila said on Monday that fighting in the east of the country is “developing” in favour of government forces and that the war could be over in “several months”. He told state television: “At the front it is going well, it is developing […]
AN 18-year-old Krugersdorp schoolboy who allegedly gunned a teacher down in front of a class full of pupils on Friday, handed himself over to the police on Sunday after a two day manhunt. The pupil walked into Johannesburg Central police station around 7pm and surrendered. The boy allegedly shot Andreas Werth while he was sitting […]
THREE South African films took top honours at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival in Ouagadougou, Burkino Fasa on the weekend. Fools, a film by South African director Ramadan Suleiman won the prize for the best debut, while the award for the best documentary film went to Masseko Zola for The Life and Time of […]
THE rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army and southern factions loyal to the Khartoum regime have agreed to observe a ceasefire, an official of one of the factions said on Monday. Teny Youk of the United Democratic Salvation Front and a state minister in an interim governing body, said SPLA leader John Garang himself gave instructions […]
PAUL RICHARDSON, Johannesburg | Monday 3.45pm. ECONOMISTS said on Monday that prospects for an uptick in business this year look moderate to distant after a record 367 South African businesses collapsed in January under the weight of punitively high interest rates. This comes after Statistics South Africa data last week showed company and closed corporation […]
NIGERIA’S president-elect, Olusegun Obasanjo, will next Saturday start a gruelling month-long world tour to renew his international contacts. Obasanjo will kick off in South Africa before moving on to Namibia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya. He will then head to Asia, where he will visit China and Japan. From Asia, and after a brief stop back […]
ZIMBABWEAN authorities arrested three United States citizens at the weekend, allegedly trying to smuggle an array of weaponry out of the country, police said on Monday. The police officer in charge of criminal investigations, Flavian Makwara, was quoted by Ziana news agency as saying the men were arrested after a customs security baggage check at […]
THE Zambian government has suspended operations of the privately-owned Aero Zambia airline, the state-owned Times of Zambia reported on Saturday. The airline was recently linked by a local independent newspaper to the shipment of arms to Angolan rebels. The Times of Zambia quoted Transport Minister David Saviye as saying there was a need for an […]
GOLD FIELDS Limited announced on Friday it has reached an agreement with the bankers of Gold Fields Ghana to reschedule the debt used to finance the Tarkwa Gold Mine. Accordingly, Gold Fields Ghana will receive a cash injection of $75-million on Friday. Gold Fields is providing $60-million, with the balance provided by Golden Knight Resources […]