London | Tuesday A ZIMBABWEAN independent journalist who writes for Britain’s Independent daily has been freed after being held overnight under the country’s new security laws, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Basildon Peta, who is also secretary general of the Zimbabwean Union of Journalists (ZUJ), was freed on Tuesday without going to court after charges […]

PRESIDENTS Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola, Festus Mogae of Botswana and Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique are to visit the White House February 26 at the invitation of US President George W. Bush, the White House said on Monday. “These three leaders are critically important to the future of Southern Africa. President Bush looks forward […]

ONE of eight British mayors who came to South Africa for a fact-finding mission said on Monday that she had learned much and was overwhelmed by the friendly reception. “I have certainly learned a lot and realise now just how important tourism can be in helping to alleviate the poverty in your country. I definitely […]

Cape Town | Tuesday THE funeral of the Eastern Cape apostle who did not die as planned at the weekend has been re-scheduled for this coming Saturday, a church elder confirmed. Fifty-eight-year-old Freddie Isaacs, a builder and one of eight apostles of the Reformed Apostolic Church, had a vision in September that his time on […]

Port Alfred | Tuesday THE Eastern Cape will not expand its nevirapine programme because only 30% of babies born to HIV-positive mothers contracted the virus, health MEC Max Mamase said on Monday. Speaking at the launch of the district health and provincial health authorities, held at the Fish River Sun near Port Alfred, he dismissed […]

Cape Town | Tuesday A 21-year-old man allegedly implicated in the baseball attack on two men in an apparent road rage incident in Cape Town handed himself over to the police on Tuesday. Police representative Superintendent Wicus Holtzhausen said the man was accompanied by his attorney when he surrendered himself at the Table View police […]

A COMMISSION of inquiry appointed by South African President Thabo Mbeki to probe corruption and violence in the country’s prisons began hearing evidence in Durban on Monday. A representative said it will focus first on three prisons in eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, where a senior prisons official was shot dead by a colleague in 1999 and […]

ZINGISILE MAPAZI, Johannesburg | Tuesday LAWYERS for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela have not yet decided what action to take following a High Court ruling evicting her from her Soweto home, her representative Alan Reynolds said on Monday. Madikizela-Mandela was ordered by the court last week to hand over the house, which she once shared with her ex-husband […]