Charges against the man accused of murdering Johannesburg socialite Hazel Crane and her estranged husband Shai Avissar were withdrawn on Monday after the investigation officer died of a heart attack. The accused, Lior Saat, an alleged member of the Israeli mafia, was arrested in April 2001 and has been in custody ever since.
South Africa would "have no problem" with granting asylum to ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, but no formal request has been received, the government said on Monday. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said a final decision, based on a formal request, would be made by the Cabinet.
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Egyptian authorities have entrapped, arrested and tortured hundreds of gay men suspected of engaging in consensual homosexual sex, a New York-based human rights group claimed in a report released on Monday that demands an end to such actions.
The City of Cape Town has concluded a major black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction for the sale of the Epping Fresh Produce Market, the largest by a South African municipality to date. The transaction also includes an important and historic agreement with the South African Municipal Workers Union’s Cape Metro branch.
Islamic Jihad threatened on Sunday to avenge the assassination of three of its activists in Gaza at the weekend with a wave of attacks that would mark ”the blackest days in Israel’s history”. About 25 000 people attended the funerals of the three men, who were killed by an Israeli helicopter missile strike on their car on Saturday evening.
The lead vehicle in the convoy has disappeared over the hill. The road ahead is flanked by two suspicious-looking car wrecks. Nobody thinks to look behind until a smoke grenade explodes three yards away. The buzzer sounds. ”A grenade. We’re dead, dude,” says Private Tyler Franzen.
The head of America’s oldest gun maker, Smith & Wesson, has resigned after a local newspaper exposed his past as a convicted armed robber. It emerged that James Joseph Minder (74) appointed as chairman just a month ago, spent more than a decade in prison in the 1950s and 1960s and had even attempted a jailbreak.
Nigeria’s second largest mobile operator Econet Wireless Nigeria has signed a -million network expansion deal with Swedish equipment provider Ericsson, company executives said on Monday.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>In a departure from their long-held policy of not making political donations and in recognition of the country’s 10th anniversary of democracy, Standard Bank and the Liberty Group on Monday announced donations of R5-million and R1,5-million respectively towards national election funding.
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