British pensioners living in South Africa are taking the British government to court to force it to pay out more than R64-billion in frozen increments to British pensioners living in the Commonwealth, the Citizen newspaper reported on Friday. It said the SA Alliance of British Pensioners (SAABP), representing about 36 000 pensioners in southern Africa […]

Bulawayo, Stockholm | Sunday ZIMBABWEAN police on Saturday arrested eleven people, including four church ministers, at meeting in the western city of Bulawayo to pray for peace in the run-up to next month’s presidential elections. Church officials told the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) in South Africa that Father Noel Scott from the Anglican Church […]

A SENIOR Northern Province magistrate charged with statutory rape pleaded not guilty in the Louis Trichardt Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. The 47-year-old magistrate was arrested after patrolling police allegedly found him and two girls, aged 15 and 19, naked in a car along the road. Inspector Patricia Rakhadani said Magistrate Ailwei Mudau was released on […]

DREW FORREST, Johannesburg | Friday IN a powerful parliamentary speech full of veiled signals and undercurrents, Minister of Home Affairs and Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi gave notice of his anger with his African National Congress coalition partner this week. Buthelezi was not alone in using the debate on President Thabo Mbeki’s state of […]

MARIANNE MERTEN, Cape Town | Friday AFTER numerous delays – including a probe into alleged tender improprieties, redrafted tender requirements and an escalation of costs from R800-million in 1996 to perhaps R3,5-billion – the first part of the Home Affairs National Identification System (Hanis) is set for an official hand-over on Monday. Minister of Home […]

A Sudanese health worker and four other Sudanese civilians were killed when at least three bombs were dropped by government aircraft on the village of Nimne in southern Sudan, the international medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders said Friday. James Koang Mar, who was employed by the organization, worked in a primary health care unit […]

Five people were killed and 15 others injured Wednesday when a police officer travelling on a truck accidentally detonated a mortar in Angola’s northern Kwanza-Norte Province, state radio reported. The mortar went off when the policeman transporting the weapon placed it on the bonnet of the truck, which was carrying several passengers, according to the […]

AN outbreak of the African Horse disease in Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces has forced the Western Cape government to bar any horses from these two provinces from entering the Cape. Western Cape agriculture department representative Charlene Niewoudt said on Tuesday the decision was taken earlier in the day to protect the spread of the disease […]

Nine people were killed and 48 injured when a potato truck carrying farm labourers lost control and overturned in the Nylstroom district on Tuesday, Northern Province police said. Captain Blackie Swart said eight women and one man were killed in the crash. The eight ton truck was travelling on the Melkrivier/Valwater Road in the Nylstroom […]