A Cape Town man who shot dead his nine-year-old daughter and wounded his wife before shooting himself, died at the Groote Schuur hospital on Monday night. Hospital spokesperson Leigh Pollio said on Tuesday that Peter Prinsloo (59) died at 7.40pm.
The United States resumed direct diplomatic ties with Libya on Monday after a 24-year break, even as the Bush administration pursued reports that Moammar Gadaffi had taken part in a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s crown prince. President George Bush said recenlty that US investigators were looking into reports of such a plot.
Three more people were arrested on Monday in the continuing blitz on soccer match-fixing in the country, police said. Premier Soccer League referee Enoch Hadebe and Dumisani Ndlovu of Hellenic Football Club were arrested in Durban, and Dolf Rousseau, the owner of Basotho Tigers, was arrested in Johannesburg.
Cops to stop counting chickens
The commissioner of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU) has spelt out four major obstacles to ending conflict on the continent. At a meeting at the AU’s headquarters in Addis Ababa, Said Djinnit said limited resources, lack of support for peacekeeping operations and poor conflict early warning systems all served to hamper efforts to resolve the conflicts ravaging Africa.
South African investment trust Hosken Consolidated Investments Limited, which is suspended from the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa pending the outcome of court action over its plans to delist, on Monday reported diluted headline earnings per share of 2,65 cents.
South African motorists have been warned that petrol could cost as much as R5 a litre. A few (sneaky) ways to modify your gas-guzzling habits include harnessing the power of gravity, souping up your vehicle, using veggie oil and driving barefoot. We tell you how.
The African Court for Human and Peoples’ Rights, one of the main organs designed to deal with human rights abuses on the African continent, is struggling to see the light of day. Commentators are suggesting it could only be formed next year, more than 12 months after its intended establishment.
Everybody should have a right to protect themselves from baseless and debasing sexual innuendo, particularly the kind that ridicules and humiliates. According to a United States federal judge, however, that right does not extend to dolls — even Barbie.
”I believe there was a desperate need for America and Britain to overthrow this fascist and dictatorial regime,” said Wadha Abdullah Hussein. ”I believe most Iraqis appreciate what the Americans and British have done in Iraq. Now we will go through a critical stage until the government and the elections are settled and I think that after elections the situation will improve.
French president Jacques Chirac bluntly told United States president George Bush to mind his own business on Monday when the United States president urged European leaders to give Turkey a firm date for starting European Union membership talks later this year. Bush, he complained, ”not only went too far but went on to territory which is not his own”.