SOUTH African police has confiscated more than 1,5 million tablets of the hypnotic drug Mandrax worth $8,5-million dollars in an upmarket suburb north of Johannesburg. Police on Thursday raided two homes in Sandton, about 12 kilometres north of the city centre, which had been used as a Mandrax factory, the Johannesburg-based The Star reported. Inside […]
A Briton has appeared in a Malawi court charged with sodomising boys from a local orphanage to whom he sometimes gave food, clothes and shelter, court officials said on Friday. The officials said a magistrates’ court here heard testimonies on Thursday from three boys among a dozen who allege to have been molested by Edward […]
A 72-year-old white South African woman was shot dead on Sunday on her farm near Tzaneen, in the Northern Province, police said. Two men tied up Susan van den Heever before shooting and killing her, breaking into a safe, stealing three firearms and escaping, according to inspector James Ngoepe. More than 1 000 people, mostly […]
AT least 13 people died when a river ferry carrying a truck turned over in eastern Senegal, emergency services said on Sunday. An undetermined number of people were also missing from the tragedy, which occurred on Saturday night in Fongolomby in the region of Kedougou, a correspondent for Walf-FM radio reported from the region. Emergency […]
A Lesotho court this week fined a Canadian construction company, Acres International, ,5-million for paying bribes on the country’s multibillion-dollar dam project. The sentence is the first in a series of unprecedented trials against some of leading dam designers and builders.
TEN rebels and one soldier died in clashes this week in northwestern Burundi, military sources said Wednesday. The clashes, which also injured six soldiers, occurred late Monday in Kirama, near the northwestern Kibira forest where Hutu rebels from the Forces for the Defense of Democracy (FDD) are active. The FDD and another rebel group, the […]
SEVEN people will appear in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday in connection with a Mandrax haul estimated at a street value of R105-million. The men, two Chinese and five Kenyans, were arrested last week after police confiscated over a million Mandrax tablets at an address in Bryanston, north of Johannesburg. Police said the drugs […]
Drakensberg | Monday THE KwaZulu-Natal Heritage Council has laid a charge against the Sani Pass Hotel in the southern Drakensberg, relating to a trail of dots of blue paint, which ends at a gallery of San (Bushman) rock art. The charge was laid at the Himeville police station by Annie van de Venter, Head of […]
A TOTAL of 428 people were arrested on various charges in different parts of Soweto between December 31 last year and January 2, police said on Thursday. Superintendent Richard Luvhengo said the people were arrested for, among others, theft, rape, murder, robbery and grievous bodily harm. Ten firearms, including two AK47 assault rifles, five rounds […]
Durban | Monday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki marked the 90th anniversary of the founding of the African National Congress (ANC) on Sunday by calling for a new patriotism to overcome racial divisions and grow the economy. Delivering the keynote address at the African National Congress’s 90th anniversary celebrations in Durban, Mbeki said the reasons […]