A LION killed a Mozambican illegal immigrant and dragged his body through the town of Phalaborwa, Limpopo Province, said the police on Sunday. Inspector James Ngoepe said the lion had since disappeared and the police and SA National Defence Force (SANDF) were still searching for the animal. Ngoepe said the immigrant, aged around 35, illegally […]
MORE than 100 people were left homeless this weekend when about 90 shacks burnt down at the Joe Slovo informal settlement in Cape Town, e.tv reported. Volunteers handed out food and blankets and the Salvation Army said the victims would be given shelter in a nearby hall. No deaths or injuries were reported. – Sapa
Luanda | Tuesday ANGOLA’S army on Monday confirmed it was searching for the body of rebel General Antonio Dembo, seen as a possible successor to slain Unita leader Jonas Savimbi, who may have been killed in eastern Angola. In a statement, army headquarters said a rebel captured in central-eastern Moxico province, where Savimbi was killed […]
Sun City | Tuesday THE armed-wing of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) rebel movement, the Congolese Rally for Democracy-Original (RCD-OR), has asked Rwandan, Ugandan and Burundian armies to return to their countries for the sake of peace in the war-ravaged central African nation. ”The time has now arrived for these armies to leave Congo […]
ACCORDING to a recent survey, the Internet is more of a workhorse and less of a hobby in the US. The number of people who used the Internet at work in the US jumped from 43 million to 55 million during the period March 2000 to January 2002. Not surprisingly, 44% of those who have […]
The South African dance performance Umoja, which was stopped in a British theatre because it was too noisy, will visit Nigeria this month, organisers said on Monday. The dance troupe will arrive in Nigeria’s main commercial city, Lagos, on March 22 for a series of performances over three weeks in Lagos and the capital, Abuja, […]
A PIETERMARITZBURG man said his sister and 127 other South Africans who attended the Hajj pilgrimage were on Monday still stranded in Istanbul, Turkey after their airline tickets were botched up six days ago. Imtiaz Sooliman said after attending pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia the group arrived in Turkey to catch a connecting flight to South […]
Cape Town | Tuesday FORMER president Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu are among prominent South Africans enlisted in a new campaign to encourage parents to talk openly to their children about sex. The campaign is part of loveLife South Africa’s national HIV prevention programme for youth. Embracing television, radio and the print media, the […]
A GROUP of students at the Tsakane Secondary School on the East Rand booed Education Minister Kader Asmal when he took centre stage to address the pupils on Tuesday. Gauteng education MEC Ignatius Jacobs, who was accompanying Asmal on a tour of three schools in Tsakane, stepped in and said: ”You are here to learn, […]
Durban | Tuesday TWO men, one of them aged 74, were arrested this week following the rape of a one-month-old baby on a farm at Port Shepstone, police representative Superintendent Zandra Hechter said on Tuesday. The two men are expected to appear in the Port Shepstone Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. Hechter said the baby girl […]