THE Pretoria Regional Court on Friday ruled that people’s poet Mzwakhe Mbuli will remain in Pretoria Central Prison following an application by Mbuli that he be moved because his fans will not leave him alone. Mbuli’s lawyer, Wessie Wessels, requested that his client be moved to a police station to isolate him from the attention […]

DETAINED managing director of the Zimbabwean Standard, Clive Wilson is to appear in the Harare high court on Monday. Wilson was arrested on Friday. Commonwealth human rights lawyers were denied access to Wilson at the weekend. “A 10-member delegation of human rights advocates from across the Commonwealth failed to gain access to Clive Wilson,” the […]

THE blockbuster restructuring of Anglo American Corporation faces another key test on Thursday when shareholders in Anglo’s industrial subsidiary consider a share swap offer. The scheme meeting for Anglo American Industrial Corp (Amic) is one of Anglo American’s last major hurdles as it tries to consolidate its operations and move its domicile to London. Shareholders […]

FOUR Italian missionaries who escaped their rebel kidnappers in Sierra Leone last were to leave Freetown Sunday for Italy, the Misna agency reported. The Rome-based missionary news agency said the four were to fly by helicopter to Lungi, then on to Guinea, before travelling to Italy. The clerics escaped on Wednesday during an air raid […]

AN officer of Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organisation pleaded guilty in a Masvingo court on Thursday to assaulting six newspaper staffers on Wednesday. Antony Jacob Gono pleaded guilty to six charges of common assault. He was refused bail and remanded for sentencing on Friday. Gono allegedly entered the newpaper offices and assaulted the staffers after accusing […]

THE SOUTH African Futures Exchange’s (Safex) chief executive, Stuart Rees, will resign at the end of March this year. Rees declined to give a reason for the resignation and did not say what his plans are. Rees chaired the initial working committee that founded Safex in 1988 and has been the exchange’s CE since then. […]

SACKED Mpumalanga deputy speaker Cynthia Maropeng is scheduled to appear in the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court on Friday on charges of defrauding the provincial government. Maropeng and her two co-accused, former legislature finance director Jomo Siboza and administration head Wilson Ngwenya, face one theft and nine fraud charges involving R1,1-million allegedly misappropriated from the provincial legislature.

THE Reserve Bank is facing fresh scrutiny of its apartheid past if President Nelson Mandela grants permission for a new probe into its activites in the final days of white rule. Department of Justice Deputy Director General Deon Rudman confirmed that an official team headed by Judge Willem Heath probing state malpractice has requested a […]

THE Spanish embassy said on Thursday that the King and Queen of Spain will visit South Africa in mid February, accompanied by a Spanish business delegation. King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia will meet President Nelson Mandela and his wife Graa Machel. Queen Sofia spent a sojourn in Cape Town during World War II. The […]

THE United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has chosen the Western Cape’s Kogelberg reserve as a biosphere reserve, Cape Nature Conservation announced on Friday. The Kogelberg biosphere reserve is about 80km east of Cape Town, stretching from Gordon’s Bay to the eastern shores of the Bot River Vlei and inland to the northern foothills […]