KWAZULU-NATAL traffic police issued close to 400000 traffic fines last year, provincial traffic spokesperson Logan Maistry said on Wednesday. Traffic offences included: 242687 for speeding, 3442 for overtaking on barrier lines,17099 for driver’s licence offences, 24004 for not wearing seat belts, 6041 for overloading and 68187 for vehicle defects. Maistry said 1713 people were arrested […]
A PROMINENT traditional leader and his son were among three men shot dead in an ambush in Ematimatolo in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands on Tuesday morning, according to a police report on Wednesday. Senior Superintendent Henry Budhram said Themba Nyoka (55), his son Sicelo (21) and Sipanelo Dladla (30) were shot dead while travelling along the […]
FIFA on Monday suspended Cameroon from all international competition for an indefinite period following a ticketing scandal which surfaced at the World Cup in France.”FIFA is forced to suspend the Cameroon Federation (Fecafoot) with immediate effect and for an indefinite period,” FIFA said in a statement.FIFA accuses Fecafoot of not applying an emergency plan to […]
ISAAC MOFOKENG (29), the man accused of shooting Johannesburg Zoo’s Max the gorilla, fell asleep during his trial in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. He has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges, including rape, abduction, housebreaking and malicious damage to property (Max the gorilla). Mofokeng has managed to delay his trial through bizarre behaviour […]
NEW Algerian Prime Minister Smail Hamdani will spell out his economic reforms to the national assembly on Thursday. Hamdani, who was once considered one of the theorists of “Algerian socialism” under the late president Houari Boumediene, has said he plans to create almost 1,2-million jobs this year by “realising” 15850 investment projects currently in the […]
ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba announced on Tuesday that the long awaited Democratic Republic of Congo peace talks will be held in Lusaka in mid-January. The talks, say Chiluba, will be attended by the rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy — a significant breakthrough if it occurs as DRC President Laurent Kabila has refused to talk to […]
TANZANIA’s first president Julius Nyerere has the government for its decision to privatise public firms. Addressing the fourth provincial chapter of the East African Province of the Holy Ghost, the elder statesman said that to privatise the economy of a country like Tanzania, where there is no private sector, is to “foreignise” it.
GAUTENG housing MEC, Dan Mofokeng, is demanding a total of R1-million from the National Party in the province and its leader, Johan Kilian, for defamation over an auditor general’s report Mofokeng released on December 28. Kilian accused Mofokeng of suppressing some of the report’s findings. The report appeared to clear the provincial housing and land […]
THE holiday season road death toll rose to 787 by noon on Wednesday, according to Arrive Alive. This figure compares favourably with the 812 people who died in traffic accidents over the same period last year. Most deaths were reported in KwaZulu-Natal with 151, followed by the Western Cape with 122, Gauteng 112, the Eastern […]
UGANDA is threatening to withdraw from a regional airline co-owned with South Africa and Tanzania unless routes for state-owned Uganda Airlines Corporation are guaranteed. If no guarantees are reached Finance Minister Gerald Sendaula will issue a notice of Uganda’s intention to pull out of Alliance Air because the regional airline has made UAC unattractive to […]