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 […]

Johannesburg | Friday THIRTEEN houses at Ndakana location near Frankfort were severely damaged by a fierce storm that hit the King William’s Town area on Sunday afternoon and lasted for about an hour. Area incident officer Inspector John Fobian said according to information last night eight of the houses were totally destroyed, leaving about seven […]

US President George W. Bush on Wednesday renewed for a year the eligibility of 35 nations in sub-Saharan Africa for tariff preferences on exports to the United States, the White House announced. The statement said the designation reflects ”continued progress toward a market-based economy, the rule of law, free trade, economic policies that will reduce […]

Three Anglogold miners died in an earth tremor at the company’s Savuka mine near Carletonville on Tuesday night, the company said on Wednesday.