A Mail & Guardian cartoon which appeared more than two weeks ago depicting Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as a naked emperor, is gaining a cult following in Zimbabwe. The independent Standard newspaper reports that the cartoon — which shows a journalist barking: “..and next time show some respect when describing his clothes.” — is being […]

GREECE does not intend to move three associates of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan out of its embassy in Nairobi, embassy spokesperson Forte Yanopulous said on Monday. Asked if the embassy was making plans to relocate three women who have been holed up in the building since Ocalan’s capture in Nairobi on February 15, Yanopulous […]

MPUMALANGA’S third largest hospital, Rob Ferreira Hospital, warned on Monday that patients would have to bring their own bedding and food for the next six weeks because the hospital has run out of money. Eskom recently threatened to cut electricity to the Nelspruit hospital because it had failed to pay an outstanding bill of R500000. […]

TRADE unionists in the Northern Province are set to make history this week when they take a traditional leader before the Commission for Conciliation, Medication and Arbitration for the first time for unfair labour practices. Zebediela tribal Chief Kgoshi Sello Kekane will have to explain on Wednesday why he fired his administrative clerk immediately after […]

THE directors of flailing New Republic Bank Holdings agreed in principle on Sunday to accept an offer by the managers of NRB asset management (NRBAM) to purchase their Johannesburg-based private client equity asset management division. NRB was placed under the curatorship of the Reserve Bank in the beginning of February after a run on its […]

SOUTH Africa’s total outstanding foreign apartheid debt amounted to just R235,8-million, finance Director-General Maria Ramos said on Monday. Addressing a National Assembly finance committee hearing, Ramos said loans taken out by the present government were unlikely to be open to renegotiation. Her comments come amid growing calls for South Africa’s apartheid debt to be written […]

CHARGES against alleged international slave trader, Joseph Amos Nkuna, were temporarily withdrawn in the Tonga Magistrate’s Court near Komatipoort in Mpumalanga on Tuesday, for further police investigations. Superintendent Thys Loedolff said on Friday that police need more time to investigate allegations that 39-year-old Nkuna was part of a Witbank-based syndicate that sold illegal Mozambican and […]

ALGERIAN authorities denied late on Sunday a report that 70 bodies have been recovered from a well on the outskirts of Algiers.The civil protection service said that while a search has begun with the assistance of security forces, no bodies had been found. The daily Liberte reported earlier on Sunday that the remains of 70 […]

VETERAN spinner Pat Symcox was roasted by the New Zealand press for delivering a ball which meant the Black Caps would win Saturday’s third limited-overs match and deny Nathan Astle his century. Symcox bowled a leg-side wide which went to the boundary when New Zealand needed a six to win and Astle was on 95. […]

BLACK business leaders, politicians and social leaders meet in the Kruger National Park on Thursday to evaluate the successes and failures of the government and black business since goals for black economic empowerment were set at the last meeting in 1993. The meeting, called Mopani II, follows Mopani I where 200 black business delegates and […]