Pretoria | Friday THE South African insurance industry is healthy, robust and innovative while operating in an increasingly challenging financial services environment with intensified competition among institutions for investment funds, the Financial Services Board, a market regulator, said in a statement on Friday. ”The latest annual reports by the Registrar of long-term and short-term insurance […]

HERVE BAR and ANTHONY MORLAND, Gisenyi, Rwanda | Saturday RELIEF workers were scrambling to create order out of chaos on Friday after some 450 000 people fled the region hit by a huge volcanic eruption in east Africa, with at least one city devastated by lava flows. There was still no word on casualties from […]

A new political party was announced Tuesday led by a former medical doctor turned politician. The Congress of United Democrats founded by Antonio Palange who was formerly served as a deputy in parliament. “My party joins other political parties in an effort to bring democracy in our country”, Palange told reporters. Palange formerly served as […]

CHARLENE SMITH and NAWAAL DEANE | Friday A groundbreaking study by a Johannesburg clinic has provided incontrovertible evidence that anti-retroviral drugs stave off HIV infection in raped women if taken soon after the attack. The findings of the study, conducted on hundreds of rape survivors at the Sunninghill Clinic in Sandton, Johannesburg, over the past […]

ANTHONY MORLAND and HERVE BAR, Goma | Sunday AID workers were desperately scrambling on Saturday to help almost half a million people who fled a volcanic eruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as the country issued an urgent appeal for foreign aid. Aid agencies in both the DRC and neighbouring Rwanda rushed to provide […]

ALGERIAN national Mokhtar Haouari was sentenced on Wednesday to 24 years of prison for plotting to bomb the Los Angeles airport during millennium celebrations. “The defendant created a great risk to the well being and the safety of the American people,” said Judge William Keenan. Haouari (32) attended the sentencing, dressed in a blue prison […]

REAL estate agent agent Tony Adlington killed his three children and injured his wife with an axe, police said on Friday. The bodies of Adlington (45) and his three children were found in a partially burnt out room in the couple’s Marina da Gama home on Wednesday after neighbours saw smoke billowing from the house. […]

THE charges against the six men accused of raping nine-month-old baby ”Tshepang” in Upington in the Northern Cape in October, will be withdrawn on Thursday afternoon. The Director of Public Prosecutions in the Northern Cape, Advocate Lungi Mahlati said he had decided to withdraw the charges on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence against […]

A CHOLERA epidemic in eight of Mozambique’s 11 provinces had infected 11 527 people and killed 159, health officials said. The epidemic began in August in the central Zambezia province, where more than half the deaths had been recorded, Avertino Barreto, the deputy national director of health, told state radio on Wednesday. In the town […]