A TEAM of nine basketball players from the Central African Republic, their trainer, his assistant and an official all went missing during a stopover in Paris on their way home last week. The group stopped over in Paris on August 13 after playing an African Cup of Nations match in Rabat, Morocco, and has not […]
MEDIA conglomerate AOL Time Warner is cutting 1 200 workers from its America Online division, the company announced on Tuesday. The company also said it was merging its various online entities into one giant, unified Internet company.The restructuring eliminates the postions, the company said. In addition, AOL said it was sacking another 500 from its […]
Johannesburg | Wednesday THE National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) will on Wednesday announce whether it is ending its strike in the automobile manufacturing industry. Numsa representative Dumisa Ntuli said the union had spent Tuesday consulting its members. It is expected to announce its decision at a press briefing at 2pm. This follows a […]
Kampala | Wednesday AN official of Royal Dutch/Shell said on Tuesday the company was studying the possibility of making a smokeless energy brick for cooking in African villages to reduce firewood consumption. ”Conceptually we have a solution. The question is to make it affordable,” said Jan Verloop, an executive in the Technology and Innovation Strategy […]
CRIS CHINAKA, Harare | Wednesday AT least 60 black Zimbabwean militants besieged a white farmer in his home on Tuesday as self-styled war veterans laid claim to white-owned land reportedly earmarked for transfer this month to blacks. Peter Goosen was barricaded at his farm in the Nyamandlovu area, outside the southern city of Bulawayo, after […]
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AN alcoholic who claimed Satan forced him to rape his 11-year-old niece over two years was handed a life sentence on Monday. The 57-year-old man from Mandulo village south of Malelane in Mpumalanga pleaded guilty to rape in the Nelspruit circuit of the Pretoria High Court. He admitted he raped her three times in 1998 […]
UNIDENTIFIED corpses that have lying in Nelspruit’s Avbob mortuary for as long as two years will be given a mass pauper’s burial on Tuesday. Avbob official Lucas Mazia said the undertaker as well as police had tried to trace the families of the dead, but many had died without any form of identification. He said […]
STANDARD Bank has been ranked 146th in The Banker magazine’s annual Top 1 000 World Bank rating a jump of 13 from last year’s ranking. In addition, Standard Bank was also rated the top sub-Saharan bank in the survey, which ranks the world’s commercial banks. The rankings are based on Tier One capital as defined […]
A LEGISLATOR in Nigeria’s southern Rivers State was shot dead at the weekend by unknown gunmen while a top government official was shot and injured in another state, radio Nigeria reported on Monday. Monday Ndor was shot and killed as he arrived at his residence late Saturday in Port Harcourt, the state capital, the radio […]