KING LEKA I, the flamboyant exiled pretender to the Albanian throne, was granted R15000 bail on Monday after being arrested on arms charges. Leka was arrested with three other men at his Johannesburg home on February 5 after police found a large quantity of firearms, ammunition, anti-personnel mines and rocket launchers. Transferred from his jail […]

HARD labour in prisons should be reintroduced, Federal Alliance leader Louis Luyt said in Pretoria on Tuesday. He told a public meeting at University of Pretoria that prisoners forfeited all rights they might have when they committed crimes against society. “Convicts should be used to build houses, hospitals and schools. We will force them to […]

TELECOM Wanderers of Malawi staged a dramatic comeback at the weekend to reach the first round of the African Champions League. Wanderers, in trouble following a 1-0 home loss to Mauritian club Scouts, stormed back on the Indian Ocean island and triumphed 3-1 in the second leg of a preliminary tie. The Central Africans raced […]

ISRAEL is preparing to donate some 10 scimitar-horned oryx to Senegal from a ranch in the southern Negev desert. The oryx historically lived in the northern Saharan Africa as well as the south of the desert, between the Atlantic and the Nile. The UN Convention on migratory species says that the only African oryx gazelle […]

A 34-year-old German special forces paratrooper, Jobst Norbert, died on Valentine’s day near Nylstroom when his parachute failed to open properly and he fell 11000 feet to his death while his wife watched. Norbert’s 27-year-old wife, Gute, had to be treated for severe shock. Norbert, who had over 100 jumps to his name, was rushed […]

CHOLERA has killed 42 people in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, over the past month, health officials said on Tuesday.Local government officials have banned street vending of food and alerted hotels and restaurants to the threat.”We are putting in place preventive measures and have hired companies to work on drainage,” said council spokesperson Daniel Musoka.The water-borne […]

LEKA, the flamboyant exiled pretender to the Albanian throne, was granted R15000 bail on Monday after being arrested on arms charges. Leka was arrested with three other men at his Johannesburg home on February 5 after police found a large quantity of firearms, ammunition, anti-personnel mines and rocket launchers. Transferred from his jail cell to […]

FOUR people were killed late Sunday and 35 wounded, several of them foreigners, when two bombs exploded in a nightclub and restaurant district of Uganda’s capital Kampala, police said on Monday.A senior security source said the bombs were the work of an urban terrorist wing of the Allied Democratic Forces rebels. The wounded included an […]

MINING production fell 1,0% in 1998 compared to the previous year, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday. However, mining production for the fourth quarter of 1998 reflected an increase of 5,7% after seasonal adjustment compared with the third quarter of 1998. This increase was mainly due to the contribution of platinum mines. The value of […]

MOZAMBICAN police foiled an attempt to smuggle 180 cartons containing over 36__000 packets of contraband cigarettes into South Africa from Maputo on the weekend. Police found the boxes of Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes hidden in the roof panels of a passenger train bound for Johannesburg from Maputo. They immediately arrested three suspected smugglers and two other […]