Grahamstown | Thursday The National Tertiary Education Staff Union (Ntesu) at the University of Transkei (Unitra) on Wednesday rejected a recommendation that it be closed down and its medical school merged with Rhodes and Fort Hare universities. A Ntesu statement accused the government of ”killing the economy” of the Umtata region in the Eastern Cape. […]

BEN MACLENNAN, Cape Town | Thursday LIKE a streak of spotted lighting, Cape Town cheetah Nyana Spier on Wednesday powered his way down a 100 metre course to equal his own world speed record of 6,34 seconds. The four-year-old cat, whose handlers say has run even faster in training sessions, set the time chasing a […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday GOVERNMENT hopes to make multi-purpose smart cards available during the next financial year, Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Monday. Briefing journalists in Cape Town, he said the issuing of the electronic cards would be accompanied by an extensive education campaign. ”We intend to make the smart card available for the […]

Johannesburg | Wednesday A LOAN to help Saambou staff buy shares in the company may have been the largest factor in the bank’s crisis forced into curatorship on Saturday Finance Week and Finansies & Tegniek reported on Wednesday. The financial weekly estimates Saambou’s loan exposure as a result of the scheme could be as high […]

Khartoum | Thursday THE Sudanese government expressed its ”profound regrets” on Wednesday for bombing a southern village and killing civilians, blaming the air strike on a ”technical error.” According to the UN’s World Food Program (WFP), an Antonov airplane dropped six bombs on the village of Akuem in the southern state of Bahr al-Ghazal, killing […]

Sydney | Thursday A FORMER Israeli intelligence agent claimed to an Australian news program late on Wednesday that Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was plotting to kill President Robert Mugabe. Australia’s government-funded Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) screened the allegation on its Dateline program, with accompanying footage showing the former agent, Ari Ben-Menashe, discussing Mugabe’s ”elimination”, […]

A 29-year-old Fidelity Security guard was killed and another wounded during an attempted cash-in-transit robbery on the Roodepoort Road in Soweto on Tuesday morning, police reported. Superintendent Richard Luvhengo said an unknown number of gunmen travelling in three vehicles, a Mercedes Benz, BMW and a bakkie opened fire on the guards at 6.30. The cash-in-transit […]