SOUTH Africa’s 146000 prisoners will not be allowed to vote in the upcoming general election. The Pretoria High Court on Tuesday dismissed an application by the South African Prison Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR) to allow prisoners to register to vote in the poll, expected in late May. Cabinet decided last year that prisoners will […]

A HAND GRENADE exploded outside the Eerste Rivier home of People Against Gangsterism And Drugs member Ebrahim Jeneker on Wednesday night. Windows were shattered by the blast, but no-one was injured according to Western Cape police. Jeneker’s is one of over 30 houses that were searched in police raids on Sunday. The police are trying […]

LONG-distance queen Frith van der Merwe is undecided on whether she will run in this year’s Comrades Marathon and will make a decision after the Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town at the Easter weekend. Van der Merwe, who will compete in the Buffalo Marathon in East London at the weekend, would like to aim […]

SOUTH African cricket manager Goolam Rajah was released from a New Zealand hospital on Tuesday having been given a clean bill of health. Rajah was admitted to Hamilton hospital in the early hours of Monday morning after feeling unwell during the night. Rajah said tests had revealed nothing serious. He rejoined the South African team […]

SOLDIERS and police in Northern Province arrested over 2300 illegal immigrants in January, said provincial spokesperson for the South African National Defence Force, Major Santie Oberholzer, on Tuesday. She said most of the 2333 arrested aliens were Zimbabweans, while 21 were Mozambicans and another 20 came from other countries to find work as cheap labour […]

CADBURY Schweppes (SA) will have a tough first half in 1999, but it should be offset by an upturn in the economy in the second half and restructuring, the company’s chairman said. “It was a tough year… There is no doubt in the second half that consumer demand fell off and it coincided with a […]

THE Northern Province government hoped to reduce its 1999/2000 debt to R400-million from R680-million in 1998/1999, finance MEC Thaba Mufamadi said on Wednesday. The province also planned to cut down on its present wage costs Mufamadi said while tabling budget proposals in the legislature in Pietersburg. The budget of R11,9-billion was 5,9% higher than the […]

PRESIDENT Sam Nujoma is to meet his South African counterpart Nelson Mandela in Pretoria on Wednesday. Neither the Namibian State House nor the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would say what the meeting was about. “We are all in the dark about this day trip,” a foreign affairs official said. However, a well-placed source indicated that […]

PRESIDENT Sam Nujoma has appointed Zimbabwean-born Judge Simpson Mtambanengwe as chairperson of Namibia’s Electoral Commission. Prime Minister Hage Geingob informed the National Assembly on Tuesday that Mtambanengwe would be chairperson for an interim period of six months. The National Assembly will be asked to approve the appointment today. Mtambanengwe will take over from Judge Fonnie […]