Thabo Mohlala The Gauteng Traditional and Faith Medical Practitioners’ organisation has launched a literacy programme in an effort to improve the negative public image of inyangas. The programme was officially launched recently with the graduation of 16 traditional healers. It aims to equip inyangas with reading and writing skills to help them in the fight […]

Gregory Mthembu-Salter Reports have emerged since South African energy giant Engen sold Engen Petroleum Rwanda in December that it was forced to abandon its operations in Rwanda following death threats against its senior management. Engen sold the company, which it had acquired from BP Fina in 1998, for an undisclosed amount to a Rwandan company, […]

Johannesburg | Thursday A THREE-day-old baby boy, found abandoned in the men’s toilet of the maintenance section of a Johannesburg court on Tuesday, has been taken in by the Cotlands Baby Sanctuary after he was turned down by two hospitals and police. Sanctuary representative Jackie Schoeman said on Wednesday the baby was brought to Cotlands […]

London | Wednesday THE international community now has ”the best chance in a generation” to relieve African poverty, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said as he prepared on Wednesday to set off on a trip to west Africa. Blair warned in an interview with The Times daily that neglect of failing states by the developed […]

Harare | Thursday A TOTAL of 16 people were killed in political violence in January, the highest number in any month since President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu(PF) party began its campaign of violence two years ago, according to the country’s leading civil liberties body. The Zimbabwe Human Rights Non-governmental Organisations forum said on Wednesday only […]

Lagos | Thursday A MASS burial planned for unclaimed bodies of hundreds of people who died in a stampede fleeing an explosion of a munitions store last month has been postponed, said a senior official. ”The mass burial, earlier scheduled for Thursday has been postponed indefinitely…and it may no longer be necessary,” Lagos State Information […]

ANGELA QUINTAL, Cape Town | Thursday DELAYS in the tabling of draft legislation to allow MPs, MPLs and councillors to cross the floor without losing their seats received a mixed reaction on Wednesday from at least two parties who are directly affected by the proposed measure. The Democratic Alliance said the impression created was that […]

CHARMAINE PRETORIUS, Durban | Thursday SURVIVORS of Tuesday’s KwaZulu-Natal train crash in which 26 people died said they had been talking about a ”ghost train” on the railway line moments before the crash. Most passengers on the train, which was travelling from KwaDukuza (formerly Stanger) to Durban, were school children on their way home. The […]