Cape Town | Wednesday DEUTSCHE BANK Securities managing director Niall Carrol has rejected accusations the bank colluded to weaken the rand late last year, saying allegations in a letter published this week were factually incorrect. He said on Wednesday he would be interested to see what unfolded at the Myburgh Commission hearings into the rand’s […]
Los Angeles | Friday AUSTRIAN-born film director Billy Wilder has died of pneumonia at the age of 95 in his Beverly Hills home, industry daily Variety reported on Thursday. Wilder was admitted to a local hospital with breathing difficulties in December and died late on Wednesday. Wilder was born in Austria and worked as a […]
Paris | Friday RAGING fires with the energy of a nuclear plant brought down the World Trade Center’s twin towers on September 11, not the impact of the two airliners, according to a study cited on Friday by the New York Times. The impact, however, dislodged fireproofing around the towers’ girders and severed the water […]
A CAPE Flats boy, aged four, was strangled by a masked intruder in Eastridge in Mitchells Plain on Friday, police said. Superintendent Nina Kirsten said Elsandro Jansen was sleeping in a bedroom with his 20-year-old mother and her boyfriend. The boy’s mother told police her son was sleeping on a mattress on the floor beneath […]
Johannesburg, Ramallah | Sunday PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki was approached by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to intervene in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, SABC radio news reported on Saturday night. Mbeki denounced what he termed the ”attack on Palestine by Israel” and said Arafat had urged him to try to salvage the situation. ”Yesterday (Friday) I sent a […]
THE African National Congress Youth League says it intends to stage a countrywide protest on Friday against racism and to demand the release of jailed former pupil Andrew Babeile. Ancyl has persistently called for the unconditional release or presidential pardon of Babeile, a former Vryburg High school pupil who is serving a three-year jail term […]
Dar Es Salaam | Wednesday MALARIA kills more than 100 000 people every year in Tanzania, but it was no longer getting due attention like HIV/Aids. ”The biggest threat to the fight against malaria today is HIV-Aids,” the programme manager of Tanzania’s National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP), Alex Mwita, was recently quoted as saying by […]
A MAN was arrested on Friday after he was found in possession of perlemoen (abalone) at Cape Recief near Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape police reported. Sergeant Thembi Gwe said the man was out at sea when he was spotted by police. He threw a bag containing perlemoen back into the sea but was arrested shortly […]
ALTOGETHER 15_680 cases of rape and attempted rape of children 17 years or younger were reported in the first nine months of last year, Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete said on Wednesday. Replying to a question in the National Council of Provinces, he said 5859 cases involved children 11 or younger. Of the total, […]
Johannesburg | Wednesday Reports that President Thabo Mbeki’s brother was benefiting from the arms deal had raised questions of serious conflicts of interest, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday. The party’s representative on South Africa’s controversial arms deal, Raenette Taljaard, said recent ”revelations” suggested that a business venture by Moeletsi Mbeki and former Independent Development […]