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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
BOTSWANA’S inflation rate increased to 6,4% in December, up from November’s 6,2%, the Bank of Botswana announced on Wednesday. The all items consumer price index was up to 115,3 from 114,9 the previous month, from a base of 100 in November 1996. The bank says it expects inflation to rise further, largely as a result […]
A MARATHON high treason trial involving 32 police officers in the Lesotho High Court failed to proceed on Tuesday following failure by the prosecution to appear in court. Presiding Judge Baptista Molai explained that for unknown reasons the crown counsel failed to appear and the trial was postponed to February 2. The 32 police officers […]
BRITISH Airways Travel Clinics in South Africa has launched an Internet-based malaria study, claimed to be a world first. As many as 2,7-million people die from the mosquito-borne disease in Africa every year, but there is a dearth of information on the human and social impact of the disease. “Surprisingly little detailed information is available […]