A HARDLINE Palestinian guerrilla group accused Libya on Monday of arresting members of the organisation and confiscating funds. Atef Zaki, a spokesperson in Lebanon for the Fatah Revolutionary Council of Abu Nidal, said members were arrested in August 1998 and funds of an unspecified amount seized. It said the moves came despite the fact that […]

THE claims of armed robber Collin Chauke that he was assaulted while being arrested last week will be investigated by the Independent Complaints Directorate, SABC news reported on Monday. Chauke had visible abrasions above his right eye when he was spotted by press outside the Pretoria Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday. Police, however, said he probably […]

THE National president of the 35000-strong vigilante organisation, Mapogo-a-Matamaga Business Shield, on Monday joined the United Democratic Movement. UDM provincial leader Reverend Kingsley Masemola welcomed Montle Magolego and said Mapogo-a-Matamaga has a role to play in governance. “The whole province and the UDM in particular acknowledge that Mapogo-a-Mathamaga has successfully eradicated crime in this province. […]

FLIGHT problems on Monday forced the ministers of defence and foreign affairs to cancel a trip to Uganda, where they were to stand in for President Nelson Mandela. “First they had flight clearance problems with some countries to the north and then there was a major technical problem with the aircraft they had chartered. It […]

TANZANIAN police and the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations are holding one person for questioning in connection with last year’s US embassy bombing Dar es Salaam, press reports said on Monday. Tanzania’s Criminal Investigations Department director Rajabu Adadi would not name the suspect and also refused to say whether the he was one of […]

POLICE captain Johannes Hanekom, in charge of the 1997 identity parade in which people’s poet Mzwakhe Mbuli appeared in connection with the armed robbery of the First National Bank’s Waverley branch, admitted on Tuesday that the parade had been “irregular” and had contravened police regulations. Hanekom was testifying before the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on the […]

THE army, police and traffic services on Monday patrolled the streets of Rustenburg in the North-West province after clashes between taxi operators and mine employees on Sunday night. Taxi operators reportedly assaulted and robbed a number of mine workers who were running lift clubs to work. Taxi operators claim that by charging for the rides, […]

EAST and Central African leaders have suspended economic sanctions imposed on Burundi almost three years ago, official sources said at the end of a summit of heads of states of the region held in Arusha, northern Tanzania. The decision was taken on Saturday, based on a report submitted by former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, who […]

HARMONY Gold Mining Company posted a dip in its cash operating profit to R100,4-million for the last quarter of 1998, compared to R104,3-million in the previous three-month period, the company announced on Monday. Net earnings fell dramatically to R38,8-million in the last quarter from R78,2-million in the third quarter, largely as a result of R30-million […]

THE South African Revenue Service announced on Friday that it is to outsource its entire dispatch function to Paragon Business Forms in an initial contract worth approximately R60-million over two years. The contract, which also includes warehousing and distribution, will see the SARS phase out its inhouse computerised forms operations early this year. Paragon’s major […]