It is a week since Leigh Matthews was last seen, but the police and the public are working as hard as ever to trace the kidnapped student, police said on Friday. ”We must find her, that’s all. There is no way anyone will lose hope,” said Superintendent Chris Wilken. He said support from the public has not diminished.
The Rolling Stones used to sit at the table in the corner for breakfast and their first snifter of the day. At 3pm. "That’s when their day started," says George Watson, owner of The Dock bar and restaurant in Montauk for 31 years. Officially part of the Hamptons, Montauk is in every sense another planet. Where the Hamptons is Gucci, Montauk is more grunge.
Benin customs police said on Thursday they have arrested four traffickers trying to smuggle 27 Beninese and Nigerian children out of the country on a minibus, first to Togo and then on to Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. The traffickers were stopped with the children aged between six and 12 at the Hillacondji customs post on the Togo border.
Hong Kong shut down for business and battened down the hatches as a tropical storm packing winds of 75kph slammed into the territory on Friday. At least two people were injured and 10 flights in and out of the city were cancelled before Tropical Storm Kompasu made landfall in the rural north-eastern Sai Kung district.
Eugene de Kock, the former Vlakplaas commander, on Thursday linked the 1989 Motherwell bombing to the earlier murder of activist Mathew Goniwe and three others, known as the Cradock Four. De Kock was testifying at the Gideon Nieuwoudt Truth and Reconciliation Committee amnesty hearing in Port Elizabeth.
South African bonds moved about six basis points weaker across the curve in morning trade, given direction by a softer rand and amidst general caution ahead of the release of the June Unied States producer price index (PPI), later on Thursday.
Two more burial sites have been discovered in Kimberley, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Thursday. The finding comes after last May’s discovery of 180 unmarked graves in the city. Developers and archaeologists are divided as to what should be done about the matter.
An army of firefighters struggled to contain an explosive wildfire that destroyed at least a dozen luxury homes and threatened as many as 1 000 other houses and businesses on the edge of Nevada’s capital, Carson City. In California a fast-moving fire threatened two rural communities in the Angeles National Forest.
The South African government’s policy to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV remains unchanged, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Thursday. The Medicines Control Council has recommended that a combination of anti-retrovirals be used instead of a single dose of nevirapine.
The African National Congress is trying to achieve a messy compromise between state intervention in the economy and underpinning an open market, says Democratic Alliance leader. Leon also took issue with the South African Communist Party’s Blade Nzimande, who has disagreed with those saying the ruling party’s economic policies have shifted.