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 […]

Johannesburg | Monday ZIMBABWEAN Information Minister Jonathan Moyo is facing the ire of two South African organisations and a United States-based aid agency for allegedly embezzling millions of rands. Moyo stands accused of absconding with R100 000 belonging to the television production company, Endemol, headed by President Thabo Mbeki’s brother, Moeletsi. Moeletsi Mbeki confirmed the […]

JOEL OLATUNDE AGOI, Lagos | Monday THE death toll from three days of clashes between gangs in a district of the Nigerian city of Lagos rose Monday to 55, Red Cross Chairman Emmanuel Ijewere told a local radio station. An AFP reporter saw six bodies being brought into the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (Luth), and […]

A SUDAN Airways flight to London was delayed on Sunday by a bomb hoax that a friend of opposition leader Sadek al-Mahdi apparently made to enable Mahdi to catch the flight, police said. Mohamed Khalil Ibrahim admitted during interrogation that he telephoned the airport with a bomb threat to enable a “friend” to catch the […]

Nawaal Deane, Johannesburg | Friday THE spread of HIV/Aids in South Africa has contributed significantly to the decline in foreign direct investment (FDI), according to BusinessMap’s investor survey released this week. The HIV/Aids crisis has increased the risk profile for investment in the Southern African region, with investors seeking a premium rate of return of […]

A 58-year-old church elder from Cradock’s Reformed Apostolic Church who last year predicted his own death and funeral for Saturday was alive on Sunday night. The churchman’s brother Roy Isaacs, said his brother Freddie Isaacs’ was alive and at home. He refused to make any further comments. Isaacs, a builder and one of eight apostles […]

East London | Monday UNITED States computer giant Microsoft will meet with Nedcor this week to discuss how software programmes to which it holds the copyright were sold with 1 400 Nedcor computers to a local computer firm. Microsoft’s Mark Reynolds, who has just returned from a trip overseas, said on Friday that he would […]