The Scorpions investigation into Brett Kebble’s murder is shifting focus from Glenn Agliotti as the main target to Clinton Nassif, the mining magnate’s security consultant. Nassif’s house in southern Johannesburg was among the premises raided countrywide by Scorpions investigators this week — even though Nassif’s status has been that of cooperating witness.
Ten Western tourists feared kidnapped in Ethiopia are safe and well and have been in contact with their tour operator, Samson Teshome, head of Origins Ethiopia, told Agence France-Presse on Friday. ”One group has reappeared with 10 people,” said Teshome, refusing to give their nationalities. ”Their satphone was not working, that is why they couldn’t contact us.”
Mozambican marines rescued more than 1 700 people, including 900 children, from flooding in central Mozambique on Friday. The marines used eight boats to mount the rescue operation in the central town of Buzi in the province of Sofala, where at least 28 000 people have been affected by the floods.
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Transport Minister Jeff Radebe will appear in public as acting health minister for the first time at the opening of the newly built Pretoria Academic hospital on Friday. On Thursday he was briefed on Health Department programmes at a meeting with his deputy, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, and managers from the department, according to a statement.
Iraqi security forces killed dozens of al-Qaeda militants who attacked a village in western Anbar province on Wednesday, during fierce clashes that lasted much of the day, police officials said on Thursday. Sunni tribal leaders are involved in an escalating power struggle with Sunni al-Qaeda for control of Anbar.
The bones exhumed from a paupers’ grave in Mamelodi West cemetery near Pretoria on Thursday could well be the remains of African National Congress liberation fighter Looksmart Ngudle, who died four decades ago, said the exhumation team.
South Africa’s assumption of the United Nations Security Council’s rotating presidency this week could hardly have come at a more contentious time.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Thursday it would push for a left-wing candidate to succeed President Thabo Mbeki as the ruling African National Congress (ANC) gears up to elect new leaders later this year. ”This time around we are taking a keen interest,” secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi told reporters after a three-day Cosatu national committee meeting.