Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown was back in court on Thursday morning as his battle to be released on bail continued. A Cape Town magistrate granted him R1-million bail on Monday, but ordered that any surety he offered had to be approved by the Scorpions.
Gunfire and explosions rocked the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kinshasa, on Thursday as armed followers of a former rebel leader clashed with government troops, witnesses said. The shooting broke out after the personal militia of defeated presidential contender Jean-Pierre Bemba defied a government order last week to disband.
The Angolan embassy in Zimbabwe rejected on Thursday as ”completely false” reports that the Angolan government would send 3 000 police officers to Zimbabwe to bolster the security forces there. ”This information is completely false,” it said in a statement.
Community involvement is essential in the fight against crime, Britain’s metropolitan police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said on Thursday as he wound his way though the streets of Alexandra to assess the outcome of a partnership programme geared to promote community responsibility in the Johannesburg township.
Politically correct garbage Minister of Public Service and Administration Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi’s suggestion (”Corruption is inimical to development”, March 9) that corruption can be fought through ”ubuntu”, and that what Africa needs is a return to its traditional values is politically correct garbage. Fraser-Moleketi is normally an astute leader, and to think she might base policy […]
Six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear-weapons programme broke up on Thursday following four days of deadlock, throwing efforts to implement a disarmament accord into disarray. North Korea’s chief envoy Kim Kye-Gwan abruptly abandoned the talks and flew home on Thursday afternoon.
Thousands of people living in the coastal towns and cities of Mozambique have been displaced by Indian Ocean high sea tides that swept into residential and commercial areas this week, news reports said on Thursday. The same phenomenon had sent massive waves slamming into the South African coastline earlier this week.
Ethiopian tanks guarding a Somali government base in Mogadishu opened fire on unidentified attackers on Thursday as clashes broke out in the capital for a second straight day. Meanwhile, al-Qaeda has named a ruthless Islamist commander as its leader in Mogadishu, the Somali government said.
Zimbabwe’s High Court has allowed two opposition officials to travel abroad for medical treatment after they were barred from leaving the country by police last weekend, official media reported on Thursday. High court judge Barat Patel ordered that Sekai Holland and Grace Kwinje be released and their travel documents returned, according to the Herald newspaper.
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The wife of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer has dismissed the possibility of a conspiracy behind the death of her husband and rejected suggestions of any match-fixing link. ”I don’t see any conspiracy in his death,” Gill Woolmer told India’s NDTV television in an interview late on Wednesday.