THE body of a South African National Defence Force (SANDF) finance clerk, who was apparently murdered in Burundi last week, arrived at the Waterkloof Air Force base late on Tuesday. The body of Elvis Azwefawi Makhado (42) was received with full military honours, after being offloaded from an aircraft in a coffin. Makhado, a civilian […]

Johannesburg, FERGUS RYAN | Wednesday COMMENTS made by the United Cricket Board of SA president Percy Sonn which caused such a brouhaha were, evidently, misinterpreted. Gerald Majola, chief executive officer of the UCB, said that having listened to the tapes and heard accounts during a special meeting in Johannesburg on Tuesday, he was certain that […]

A 35-year-old man was arrested at his home in Centurion on Tuesday for the murder of Beatrix Alexander Harrowyn who was hacked to death in November last year, West Rand police said. Harrowyn (47) an interior decorator of Morningside, Johannesburg, went missing on November 19 last year. Her naked, washed body was found alongside the […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday FOLLOWING calls to probe the rand’s depreciation, President Thabo Mbeki has appointed a commission of inquiry to investigate the decline. Presidential representative Bheki Khumalo said on Tuesday that the commission, to be headed by former Judge President of the Labour Appeals Court, advocate John Myburgh, would commence its work ”as a matter […]

THE national road death toll since the summer holidays began on December 1 reached 993 by Sunday night and was expected to climb with the big rush home this weekend, the Department of Transport said in Pretoria on Monday. By January 7 last year, the national road death toll between December 2000 and January 2001 […]

LEON ENGELBRECHT, Pretoria | Wednesday THE SA National Defence Force on Wednesday said its pilot training standards were as tough as ever. The statement follows concerns expressed in media reports that on one hand training standards were being dropped in order to qualify more pilots from previously disadvantaged groups, and on the other hand that […]

The US army is building a depot in Gabon for humanitarian aid destined for Central African countries, US diplomatic sources said Tuesday. Around 40 troops began work in December on the 40 000-square-metre depot. It is being built out of light materials close to the country’s main international airport at Libreville on a Gabonese army […]

Harare, London | Wednesday THE Zimbabwe government has lashed out at whites and its main political opposition, accusing them of being behind a suspected anthrax attack at the Harare post office. Health ministry officials said on Tuesday that two envelopes had been discovered to contain a suspicious powder in the post office’s sorting department after […]

Pretoria | Wednesday THE University of South Africa (Unisa), Technikon SA and the distance education centre of Vista University are to become a single institution, the Open Learning University of South Africa, from February 1. In a notice in the Government Gazette, Education Minister Kader Asmal also announced that former Mpumalanga premier Mathews Phosa, who […]