A COALITION of non-government organisations under the umbrella of the Gun Control Alliance launched a “Charter for Gun Control” on Wednesday. The intention of the campaign is to “establish social consensus” on the issue. The campaign aims to prevent the keeping of forearms for self-defence by persuading the authorities to issue firearm licences only to […]

A DELEGATION of the Organisation of African Unity in the separatist Comoran island of Anjouan is “stuck” between two armed factions, officials in the Mauritian capital said on Thursday. “The delegation is apparently having problems right now, stuck between two armed factions who have been fighting on the island for several weeks,” an official said. […]

SEVENTY Rwandan non-commissioned officers are to train as pilots in Israel, the monthly Newsline reports in its current issue.Armed forces spokesperson Emmanuel Ndahiro denied the report but other military sources said that military personnel are scheduled to leave for Israel soon.”Rwanda has intensified training of its military in the past five years apparently to get […]

TWO nominations for the vacant post of chair of the Independent Electoral Commission were forwarded to Parliament on Wednesday. Lands Claims Court Judge Antonie Gildenhuys and Johannesburg High Court Judge Ismail Hussain were nominated by a selection panel comprising Constitutional Court President Judge Arthur Chaskalson, Public Protector Selby Baqwa and the chairs of the Human […]

AFRICA’S two Waynes are out of the Dubai Open tennis championship. Wayne Ferreira was sent home on Tuesday by Francisco Clavet of Spain, losing 13-11 in a third set tiebreaker. The South African was beaten 3-6 6-2 7-6 by the world number 29 on the second day of the $1-million tournament. Zimbabwe’s Wayne Black was […]

THE South African Tennis Association on Wednesday decided to move the Euro-African Zone group 1 tie from Johannesburg to Cape Town after players expressed their concerns about playing at altitude. Despite signing a letter of commitment to hold the April 2-4 contest at Johannesburg’s Standard Bank venue, Sata has agreed to pay a penalty fee […]

POLICE have arrested four members of a suspected murder gang which terrified Northern Province residents at a popular meeting place for amorous couples 20km south of Pietersburg. The lovers’ lane gang is believed to have shot and killed three men and a woman during their six-week reign of terror at Lebowakgomo. A second woman was […]

SOUTH African wool prices climbed sharply at this week’s auction on the back of a weaker rand and a relatively small offering, Cape Wools said on Wednesday. The Cape Wools’ market indicator gained 3% on last week to R17,93/kg (clean). The rand weakened against the Australian dollar making South African wool cheaper than Australian wool.

THE Western Cape branch of the Jubilee 2000 campaign to end Third World debt is to be launched in Cape Town on Saturday. Announcing the launch on Wednesday, Jubilee 2000 said interest on the South Africa’s apartheid debt last year was R42,5-million and is set to increase this year. ”This is almost double the amount […]

FORMER Rwandan information minister Eliezer Niyitegeka, wanted by the United Nations’ war crimes tribunal for complicity in the 1994 genocide, has been arrested in Kenya. Niyitegeka, wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda since July 1996, was information minister under the interim government led by Jean Kambanda, who himself pleaded guilty to genocide and […]