SOUTH AFRICAN road deaths totalled 455 on Wednesday from December 1, according to Johann Kilian of Arrive Alive. The toll stands at 151 drivers, 167 passengers and 137 pedestrians. The season has brought 313 fatal accidents. Most of the road deaths were reported in KwaZulu-Natal, with 90, followed by 67 in Gauteng, 59 in the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Tuesday 5.45pm. UNITA rebels in Angola were on Tuesday shelling the strategic town of Kuito, in the central Bie province, where several dead and wounded were reported. Shelling continued late into the morning. Numerous people were wounded when the Sao Jose de Clunny secondary school was hit, while bodies lay on […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, The Hague | Tuesday 12.00pm. THE Libyan suspects in the Lockerbie bombing case will only face trial in an “international court,” Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi said in an interview with Dutch television broadcast on Monday. This means a trial by Scottish judges is out of the question. “An international court is the solution, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, | day 11.00m. SIERRA Leonean rebels launched an attack some 30km from the capital on Tuesday, the commander of the Nigerian-led intervention force, Ecomog, reported. General Timothy Shelpidi said the attack took place in Waterloo, which lies at a strategic junction linking the Freetown peninsula to the country’s interior. In a radio broadcast, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENTS, Cairo | Sunday 1.30pm. PROTESTS gatherings against the United States and British air attacks on Iraq were held in Libya and Morocco on Sunday. More than 10000 Libyans gathered in Tripoli’s central Green Square on Sunday to show solidarity with Iraq, brandishing green flags and portraits of Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi, who was […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Friday 8.00pm. THE South African Footplate Staff Association, a traditional bastion of white workers, announced on Friday that it has merged with black trade union the Democratic Labour Union of South Africa. The new union which represents Transnet workers will take Safsa’s name, secretary-general of the merged union Chris de Vos […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 2.00pm. THE Pan Africanist Congress is to dissolve its military wing, the Azanian People’s Liberation Army. SABC television reported on Saturday that the party decided at a pre-election congress in Johannesburg on Saturday that the Apla, which suspended its armed struggle in 1994, will be formally dissolved next year. It […]

Tangeni Amupadhi A band of robbers and kill-ers is terrorising African immigrants in Johannesburg in what appears to be a systematic elimination of the foreign nationals. The latest casualty was Djo Ongonga Okamba from Brazzaville, the capital of Congo. He was shot dead last week, days before he was to leave for his home town. […]

Fine Art: Tracey Murinik Willie Bester, Louis Jansen van Vuuren and Zwelethu Mthethwa form a rather unexpected and somewhat unlikely trio at the Association for Visual Arts (AVA) in Cape Town this month. They have come together not only to exhibit their own respective works but also to collaborate on a number of pieces which […]