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.
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 […]
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 […]
Pretoria | Sunday COMPLICATIONS such as pneumonia and kidney failure from a back problem caused the death of Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete, a senior African National Congress official said on Saturday. Secretary General Kgalema Motlanthe said doctors at Military 1 Hospital did a dialysis on Tshwete on Friday to diminish a build-up of […]
Cape Town | Saturday PRESIDENTIAL Press Corp (PPC) candidates will be expected to complete a questionnaire and, if necessary, follow-up interviews, but will not be required to undergo a polygraph test, Intelligence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said on Saturday. She was responding to concerns raised in the media over intrusive and ”unsavoury” questioning of candidates by […]
Bloemfontein | Saturday SOUTH AFRICANS have to make an investment in the betterment of their own lives, President Thabo Mbeki said on Saturday. Some believed the government should deliver to a docile and inactive constituency without any reciprocating effort, he told Freedom Day celebrations in Bloemfontein. ”Our freedom will have no meaning if we do […]
Umtata | Saturday UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT leader Bantu Holomisa has called on President Thabo Mbeki to apologise to South Africans for the way he handled the HIV/Aids issue. Holomisa in a Freedom Day speech in Umtata said after years of ”bungling, denial and outright lunacy” the reported ”new personal leadership” by Mbeki on HIV/Aids was […]
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 […]