Leaders of the Irish Republican Army’s (IRA) political wing head to St Patrick’s Day events in the United States this week battered by a furore over IRA crime, shut out of talks in Washington and banned from its annual fund-raising drive among Irish-Americans. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has been omitted from official events hosted by US President George Bush.
A prospective buyer has offered the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) R7-million for its luxury beachfront mansion in Cape Town. The luxury Sunset Beach dwelling, dubbed variously the ”spook house” and ”Lindiwe’s folly” in reference to former intelligence minister Lindiwe Sisulu, has been on the market for at least nine months.
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Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s legal adviser Linda Makathini saw only a copy of a loan agreement between Zuma and Schabir Shaik, the Durban High Court heard on Monday. Since the start of Shaik’s trial, the state has been trying to locate the original loan document.
The remains of two Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) cadres, believed to have been killed and buried in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, in 1983, were exhumed on Monday. Months of research have led the National Prosecutions Authority to the conclusion that the exhumed graves belonged to Madoda Bonga and one other, as yet unidentified, cadre.
A boy aged two was shot in the head by his four-year-old brother after a squabble over a toy and a churchgoer opened fire on fellow worshippers, killing seven of them, in a weekend of gun violence across the United States. Police said the two boys had been squabbling in their Houston home when the younger child threw a toy at his brother.
Britain named the country’s first black Cabinet minister as its next ambassador to South Africa on Monday. Paul Boateng, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, will quit the government after the next national election to take up the diplomatic post in Pretoria, the Treasury said in a statement.
A working dog so faithful that he spent almost a week with his dead owner’s body will be put down and buried with his master, animal welfare group RSPCA said on Monday. ”Euthanasing him is the best thing to do,” said RSPCA Queensland spokesperson Michael Beatty.
It will take a hundred years to transfer 30% of agricultural land to black farmers at the current rate, South African Communist Party leader Blade Nzimande said on Monday. He said joint action was needed to accelerate the land reform process if the 30% target was to be reached within the next ten years.
A man was arrested on bestiality charges after he was found raping his neighbour’s goat at a village in Limpopo on Sunday morning. Police spokesperson Inspector Ntobeng Phala said the owner of the goat heard the animal crying from the kraal at Zist Village, Ga-Maleboho, about 200km northwest of Polokwane.
A Turkish man managed to get the pension of his mother for two years after her death, posing as an elderly woman to the local bank and neighbours, the mass-circulation <i>Sabah</i> newspaper reported on Saturday. He was caught only after he forgot to change his voice in response to a question by a bank clerk.