A mass grave was discovered by aid workers clearing bodies from a troubled northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo town, bringing the number of people killed in tribal fighting to more than 300, a UN official said on Thursday.
The recommendation by the ethics committee of Parliament to sanction South African Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota for a week’s salary is likely to cost him just R11 485.
Parliament’s joint ethics committee on Thursday sanctioned Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota for failing to comply with the provisions of the parliamentary code of conduct in not disclosing certain business interests as reported in the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=14579">ANC welcomes fast action on Lekota</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=14580">Lekota out of pocket by just R11 485</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=14361">Shadow falls on Lekota</a>
The National Assembly on Wednesday gave the green light for South Africans, who broke tax and foreign exchange laws by illegally stashing funds offshore, to bring the money home.
Cries of terror and anguish filled the streets of Algiers early Thursday after a powerful earthquake claimed at least 538 lives in northern Algeria.
Non-governmental organisation Christian Aid has called for a "global oil deal" which forces oil companies and countries like Angola to publish details of payments and revenues from the lucrative trade.
South African police were last night examining DNA samples from a Pretoria couple who said they were the parents of a white teenager who emerged this week from a rural black township, claiming he was kidnapped 12 years ago and raised as a goatherd.
They are young and gorgeous, dressed scantily, if at all, and with sex on the brain. When not unbuckling belts, rolling in bed, entwining legs and sliding hands towards nether regions, they are talking about sex.
A South African engineer who has appeared in the Alberton Magistrate’s Court acknowledged that he received around R5,6-million from the Pakistani government to which he supplied weapons plans, Beeld newspaper reported on Thursday.
The biggest US defence budget since the cold war is being rammed through Congress by the Republican majority this week despite persistent questions over waste and the Pentagon’s own admission that it cannot account for more than a trillion dollars.