HANNES DE WET, Pretoria | Tuesday THE government on Monday defended its decision not to opt out of the second portion of the defence renewal package, saying there was no need to cancel the purchase of 12 Hawk trainer aircraft. ”There was no reason to even consider not taking the second tranche,” Trade and Industry […]
East London | Wednesday THE East London Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday issued a warrant of arrest for suspended police media officer Captain Sibongile Ndyoko after he failed to appear in court on a charge of theft. Ndyoko (33) is charged with stealing R2 100 in June last year, which he allegedly took from police funds […]
East London | Wednesday POLICE have launched a massive manhunt in the Dimbaza area of the Eastern Cape for two men who abducted four young friends from a Dimbaza house on Sunday, raped two of them and shot two dead. The two dead teenagers, who were forced into a dam before they were shot, have […]
Pretoria | Thursday COMMUTERS angered by train delays set three coaches alight at Pretoria Station on Wednesday afternoon. As a result Pretoria commuters may experience difficulty in getting to work by train on Thursday morning, Metrorail CEO Honey Mateya said. Commuters went on rampage after trains were delayed because of a gas leak at a […]
Johannesburg | Thursday TOUGH market conditions in South Africa significantly reduced the performance of black economic empowerment firms in 2001 and inhibited new entrants, an economic think-tank said on Wednesday. BusinessMap, a think-tank that reviews empowerment annually, said in its 2002 report that market capitalisation of black-controlled firms as a percentage of the JSE Securities […]
Blantyre | Tuesday THE International Monetary Fund has released only $8-million of $55-million earmarked for Malawi because of the government’s failure to account for where the money would be going, a local representative of the organisation said on Monday. The aid money was intended for use over three years beginning in 2000 as part of […]
Former president Nelson Mandela,capped, gowned and glowing, with his Rhodes University honorary doctorate in hand.
WOUTER Basson, apartheid South Africa’s germ warfare mastermind, faces judgment on Thursday after a 30-month trial on charges ranging from murder to fraud and drug dealing.
SOUTH African explorer Mike Horn has abandoned his solo bid to cross the Arctic Ocean and tour the North Pole because of frostbite on his hands, a representative said on Wednesday.
Pretoria, Monday AN envisaged mechanism to enforce an African code of conduct on good and democratic governance would function independently of political institutions, President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday. ”(It should be) able to make a judgment not influenced by political authorities on the continent,” he told reporters in Pretoria after a meeting of regional […]