Pretoria | Tuesday SOUTH Africans will have to fasten their seatbelts for the single highest increase in the retail petrol price in the past two years and pay 29c more for every litre from Wednesday, the Department of Minerals and Energy said on Monday. The wholesale price of diesel would surge by 26c/litre and that […]
Nairobi | Monday FOUR elephant poachers have been killed in an exchange of fire with game rangers at Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park, an official said on Sunday. Josiah Achoki, assistant director for operations of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) rangers told AFP the incident occurred on Friday. ”We tracked them down and … around […]
Pretoria | Tuesday BEFORE Saartje, the Khoi woman exploited as the ”Hottentot Venus”, returns to her land of birth on Friday, her compatriots might want to learn how to spell her name correctly. Her birth certificate states her name as Sarah Bartmann, according to Professor Jatti Bredenkamp of the University of the Western Cape’s Institute […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH Africa’s electronic stock settlement group Strate said on Monday it was hiking fees by over 50% to help cover its set-up costs after trading volumes on the Johannesburg market failed to meet expectations. Strate said it was adopting a new pricing model that would raise the fees for each on-market settlement […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday A TWO-year-old child died in an inner city shack fire in Johannesburg on Monday night. City emergency services representative Malcolm Midgely said the little girl was left unattended by her parents. ”At about 8.30pm a candle fell over and the place went up in flames,” Midgely said. The shack in which the […]
Johannesburg | Monday FORMER Vryburg High School pupil Andrew Babeile would be released on parole from the Kimberley prison on Monday after serving almost two of his three year prison sentence for attempted murder. Babeile was sentenced to an effective three years’ imprisonment in May 2000 after being convicted of attempted murder for stabbing a […]
Johannesburg | Monday LAWYERS representing the bus driver who was blamed for the accident in which 27 elderly British passengers and a South African tour guide were killed near Lydenburg in 1999 were still trying to track him down on Monday to inform him that his sentence had been overturned on Friday. Arno Botha of […]
SOUTH African space tourist Mark Shuttleworth on Sunday completed his first 24 hours on the International Space Station (ISS) after admitting ”moments of terror, moments of exhilaration” on the first leg of his cosmic adventure.
SOUTH AFRICAN space tourist Mark Shuttleworth complained of gravity-loss related backache on Sunday but said being at the International Space Station (ISS) meant getting to see 15 extra sunsets a day.
CONTACT was made on Saturday between outer space and the Free State city of Bloemfontein when President Thabo Mbeki spoke to Africa’s first astronaut Mark Shuttleworth, aboard the International Space Station (ISS).