Rustenburg | Thursday A 42-YEAR-old man from Tarlton near Krugersdorp will appear in the Rustenburg Magistrate’s Court today after allegedly firing several shots at nine passing motorists and injuring 14 people on Tuesday. Seven people sustained gunshot wounds and seven others suffered minor injuries when the man armed with a .303 rifle, and apparently drunk, […]

Johannesburg | Wednesday THE proposed amendment to the Labour Relations Act (LRA) that will allow legal strikes to impede retrenchments will further ”bedevil” government’s privatisation plans, industrial relations and human resources company NMG-Levy said on Wednesday. ”Privatisation is currently on hold because the timing is inopportune on the cusp of a downturn,” the company said […]

Cape Town | Thursday SLAIN former first lady Marike de Klerk’s dance partner John Thebus has sold the exclusive rights to the story of their friendship to a South African magazine. Thebus (52) refused to be interviewed by the Cape Times. However, he said that de Klerk, widely believed to have thwarted an engagement between […]

Atlanta | Tuesday THE inquiry into the weakening rand should have included an investigation on the government’s inaction, Tradek economist Mike Shussler said on Tuesday. He was reacting to the terms of reference for the probe, announced by the Presidency on Tuesday afternoon. Shussler also expressed concern about the time period which the commission of […]

Pretoria | Thursday THE University of South Africa on Wednesday took its court action against a merger with two other institutions a step further, although the Unisa council is still considering whether or not to finally go ahead with the hearing, set for next Tuesday. Legal counsel for Unisa brought an application in the Pretoria […]

YEMI Taylor-Kuti, the widow of the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti and mother of their musician son Femi, has died at home in Lagos after a brief illness, the family said on Sunday. Taylor-Kuti, who married then aspiring jazz musician Fela Ransome-Kuti in London in the 1960s, was the only legal wife of a man who […]

Abuja | Wednesday NIGERIAN police on Wednesday arrested the country’s labour leader as he launched a general strike to force down fuel prices and used tear gas to break up a demonstration. Police moved in shortly after 9:00 am (0800 GMT) and detained Adams Oshiomhole, president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and other union […]

BURUNDIAN Communications Minister Albert Mbonerane suspended on Monday the right of the private news agency Net Press to publish or post news on its Website. “This measure has been taken to ensure that the media law is respected,” he said. “For some time now, we have noted that Net Press editors and management have not […]

AT least 33 people were killed last week when a small coltan mine collapsed in eastern DRC, local rebel officials said on Tuesday. Coltan is a mineral used in electronics and especially in the manufacture of mobile phones. ”The mine collapsed at a busy time, burying tens of diggers and traders who, as usual, had […]