TWO staff were taken hostage in the Kenyan embassy in Bonn on Tuesday, where Kurdish protestors stormed the building in a show of support for Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan. Kurdish protestors also stormed Greek embassies across Europe from London to Moscow on Tuesday.The Kurds targetted the Kenyan embassy in Germany after Greece admitted on […]

SUPER 12 rugby’s governing body Sanzar has rejected bids from Australia and South Africa to expand the competition. Sanzar and New Zealand Rugby Football Union chairman Rob Fisher said no expansion is likely for at least three years. New Zealand has five teams, South Africa four and Australia three in the competition which leads up […]

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 […]

SOARING temperatures have forced organizers of the Safari Rally to shorten the first and second legs of the competition through the hilly countryside to the southwest of Nairobi. With only 10 days to go before the start of the Safari, considered one of the toughest in the world championship circuit, temperatures have reached nearly 29C […]

The Independent Electoral Commission on the weekend assured voters that the election will take place by July 31 this year. IEC acting chairperson Brigalia Bam said that even if the NNP and DP succeed in changing the Electoral Act to allow all ID books — not just those with barcodes — to be used, Parliament […]

THE Democratic Party on Sunday announced that the leader and chairperson of the Freedom Front caucus in the Greater Pretoria Metropolitan Council have defected defected to join its ranks. Caucus leader Philip de Wet and chairperson Wickus Theron, who announced the move at a DP fundraiser on Saturday night, automatically lose their seats.

FORMER military ruler Olusegun Obasanjo early Monday won the presidential nomination of Nigeria’s largest political party, setting him on course for the February 27 presidential elections, party officials said. Obasanjo won 1658 out of more than 2400 votes from delegates at the convention of the centre-left Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), roundly defeating former civilian vice […]

THREE people were killed and one injured when a light aircraft crashed on a farm outside Heilbron in the Free State on Saturday evening. The dead were identified as Gert van der Merwe (48) his wife Katy (59) and their son Corrie (24) who was piloting the aircraft. A friend, Gerhardus Labuschagne (22) sustained a […]

MEDICAL researchers seeking an Aids vaccine were lambasted on Monday by South African Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma for ignoring the region where the disease is most prevalent. “About 70% of the cases of Aids in the world are in sub-Saharan Africa, but world research into a vaccine is not into the type of virus found […]

A MAN was stoned to death in Carletonville after he ran over a two-year-old boy in his car. Police spokesperson Herman Esterhuizen said the driver hit the boy on Satuday, killing him instantly. A crowd gathered around the car, throwing stones at it. The driver got out of his car and was stoned by the […]