British Customs officials are to launch an inquiry into the sale of jet fighters which look likely to be involved in military operations against civilians and rebels in one of Africa’s bloodiest civil wars.
A forgotten famine is reducing one of the world’s richest stores of biodiversity, the rainforests of Madagascar, to ash. Farmers stricken by drought on the Indian Ocean island are burning swaths of primeval woodland to make charcoal.
Springbok captain Corne Krige hinted that his team did not deserve to beat Argentina in the nail-biting rugby Test match played at the EPRFU Stadium in Port Elizabeth.
Openers Marcus Trescothick and Vikram Solanki scored centuries and shared a record 200-run stand on Saturday as England hammered South Africa by six wickets in a tri-series one-day international at The Oval.
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) vowed on Friday to intensify its protest action, failing a positive response to its demands relating to issues like low salaries, transformation failures, police killings and overcrowded prisons.
Seven alleged members of the rightwing Boeremag organisation received medical treatment on Friday after claiming to have been injured in a rough drive from court to prison on Tuesday.
Petrol prices will rise by between 19 and 21 cents a litre on Wednesday next week, the minerals and energy department said on Friday.
British company Cape Plc on Friday paid about R93-million in compensation to 7 500 South African workers who suffered a range of diseases after being exposed to asbestos at work. Gencor Ltd. will also pay about R39,7-million to Cape claimants who were also exposed to asbestos while working for Gencor.
Joe Verster, a former head of the apartheid government’s Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB), was arrested by the Scorpions at his Pretoria home on fraud charges, SABC television news reported on Friday.
United States President George W Bush is expected to receive a hostile reception from thousands of protesters when he arrives in South Africa next month on a week-long trip to Africa.