A mysterious third person may have been involved in the Sizzlers massacre that left nine people dead in January last year, the Cape Town High Court heard on Wednesday. Defence counsel Nehemiah Ballem, representing taxi operator Trevor Basil Theys, said his client was afraid of this third person.
Five people were killed and 51 injured in revolt-racked Indian Kashmir when Islamic rebels detonated a grenade to escape from a house where they had tried to abduct a civilian, police said on Wednesday. But witnesses said one of the men who entered the house west was working for Indian security forces.
The Zimbabwe government is getting more desperate by the day to hang on to power, with that country’s Minister of Information, Jonathan Moyo, taking things too far by referring to journalists as ”mercenaries”, says the New National Party. NNP media director Carol Johnson said Moyo’s statement ”flies in the face of a free media”.
The men arrested aboard a captured plane in Zimbabwe are all former South African National Defence Force soldiers from Unit 32, based in Namibia, a diplomatic source said on Wednesday. The source said the plane had indeed been transporting mercenaries to Equatorial Guinea.
It’s all a ‘misunderstanding’
Mercenaries ‘came to collect guns’
South African radio presenter Gareth Cliff has been suspended for two days by national music station 5fm as a result of an "interview" he conducted with "Jesus" on his show on Tuesday afternoon, which elicited numerous complaints from listeners. Cliff on Wednesday apologised to his listeners.
Standard Bank — one of South Africa’s so-called "big four" banking groups — cannot be accused of not delivering on its promises. A year ago, the bank published what it referred to as its medium-term financial objectives. On Wednesday, Standard Bank CEO Jacko Maree disclosed that all of the targets had been met.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad has landed in the Central African Republic and is expected to be asked by ousted Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide for asylum in South Africa, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday.
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Three vulture species in South Asia face imminent extinction due to a powerful drug that makes livestock carcasses fatal for the scavenging birds, ornithologists at a world conference on birds said. The threatened species include the white-rumped vulture, the slender-billed vulture and the Indian vulture.
The black economic empowerment charter on information communications technology (ICT), which was released in draft form on Tuesday, is not merely being implemented to create a black middle class, said Advocate Dali Mpofu, the chairperson of the ICT charter working group.
Pharmacist Sudhir Sathe stands by an idle production line. By now, he says, desperately needed anti-retrovirals for 70 000 Aids patients a month could be rolling off the gleaming conveyor belt. ”We do not need to state the urgency of getting these drugs out,” said Sathe, who has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 27 years. ”We are frustrated.”