on Saturday in connection with the murder of a 45-year-old colleague at a shebeen in Mankweng outside Pietersburg, Northern Province police reported. Police representative, Inspector Peter Mailula, said the victim was killed instantly by a bullet which went off while the two teachers were fighting over a gun — hitting him on the head. Mailula […]

NO less than 52% of severely injured patients admitted to the casualty section of the Johannesburg Hospital are HIV, The Citizen reported on Thursday. The figures were collected by Professor Ken Boffard, on the basis of blind sampling of blood drawn from patients over the last year. The figures cannot be accurately extrapolated to the […]

Harare | Saturday ZIMBABWE may declare a state of emergency if a bill is passed in Washington that threatens sanctions against the country, Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge said on Friday. He told state television in an interview that Zimbabwe would campaign against the bill, but if it failed to stop its passage into law, a […]

POLICE in Botswana’s Thamaga Village are investigating an incident case in which a 40-year-old pastor of the Botswana Babirwa New Jerusalem Church drowned while baptising his followers. It is reported that the congregation had a night vigil the day before and the following morning went to a nearby river for a baptism ceremony. The pastor, […]

Lagos | Friday VIGILANTES in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos crucified and then set ablaze a suspected robber, in the most grisly demonstration of violent vigilantism, the newspaper Vanguard reported on Friday. Akanni Arikuyeri, a suspected armed robber, was seized and nailed to a cross by the members of the anti-crime vigilante group, the Odua Peoples […]

A MOZAMBICAN woman and her three-year-old child who illegally tried to enter South Africa through its largest game reserve were trampled to death by an elephant, a Kruger National Park representative said on Thursday. William Mabasa said the woman and child were part of a group of about 14 Mozambicans who tried to get into […]

FORMER South African president Nelson Mandela will continue radiation treatment for his prostate cancer after considering all options, his office said on Wednesday. Mandela’s representative Zelda la Grange said in a statement that two physicians, a radiotherapist and five urologists — including Mandela’s own urologist — met on August 3 to review the 83-year-old’s treatment. […]

MARIANNE MERTEN, Cape Town | Friday A BILL of at least R220 000 – excluding legal fees of tens of thousands of rands – is expected for the two official probes into whether public submissions on the renaming of two Cape Town streets might have been manipulated. The costs for the current inquiry by corruption […]

SURVIVAL International, a world-wide organisation supporting tribal peoples, has intensified its battle with the government of Botswana over the situation of the Basarwa. In their annual report, published to coincide with the United Nations’ Day for Indigenous Peoples (9 August), the organisation has identified the most vulnerable tribe in each of three continents; Africa, Asia […]

SULPHURIC acid has accidentally spilled into the municipal water reservoir of Kitwe, Zambia’s second largest city in the northern Copperbelt mining region, a municipal official said on Wednesday. The spillage occurred after a train transporting the chemical derailed. Municipal authorities in Kitwe, 400 kilometres north of Lusaka, have shut down the water supplies to the […]