Durban | Tuesday THE Non-Aligned Movement’s committee on Palestine (CoP) will send a delegation to meet Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to express solidarity for his country’s plight, a declaration released by the committee on Monday night stated. The declaration, which followed a three-hour meeting of the committee on Saturday, also called for decisive action against […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday BANKING group Nedcor announced on Monday afternoon that it had withdrawn from a bid to partner the government and FirstRand bank in running ailing Saambou Bank. A statement said the decision was made after Nedcor announced last week that it had offered to buy BoE Limited for R7,3-billion. ”Nedcor has considered its […]
Durban | Sunday SOUTH AFRICAN Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Saturday that the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) had to voice strong support and solidarity for the people of Palestine amid increasing conflict in the volatile Middle East region. Speaking after the meeting of the Committee on Palestine at the International Convention Centre in […]
Johannesburg | Monday THE exclusively white community of Orania in the Northern Cape is to hand a report on its status as an independent municipality to Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi on Monday, a representative for Orania said. Carel Boshoff said in a statement that the report was the result of a 14-month long study […]
Cape Town | Tuesday A SOUTH African man, believed to be from the Boksburg Hiking Club, died after he and two colleagues were attacked by a swarm of killer bees while hiking in southern Namibia last week. A representative for a lodge in the area, Chris Baas, said a party of ten people, South Africans […]
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Deceased jazz pianist Moses Taiwa Molelekwa’s recordings are to be released posthumously next week, writes Thebe Mabanga.
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Friday POLITICAL grandstanding and greed are threatening the world’s biggest game reserve, a key prestige project of the South African government. The proposed Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park is intended to link South Africa’s Kruger National Park with its Mozambican and Zimbabwean counterparts as the first step towards creating the planet’s largest […]
France | Monday A GRIM chapter in scientific curiosity ends Monday when the remains of the so-called “Hottentot Venus” the preserved body of an African woman begin their journey back to a dignified resting place in South Africa. The dissected and preserved body of Saartjie Baartman will be handed over to South Africa’s ambassador to […]
Johannesburg | Saturday TRIBUTES from across the spectrum flowed in on Saturday after the death of Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete in Military 1 Hospital in Pretoria on Friday night, where he had been confined for two weeks. President Thabo Mbeki said in a statement from Bloemfontein early Saturday morning that South Africans had […]