DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Sunday ACCORDING to Independent Online, Willem Heath has wound up a week of hearings into the Cape Town street renaming scandal, in which council members are alleged to have manipulated so-called public petitions in support of the proposal. The proposal was a favourite of Democratic Alliance mayor Pieter Marais, who […]
Pretoria | Sunday PROSECUTORS said Saturday they would not appeal a High Court decision which overturned an order issued to foreign journalists to hand over video material of the killing of druglord Rashaad Staggie. The National Directorate of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), said in a statement they would not further delay the trial of the men […]
DAVID MACFARLANE, Johannesburg | Friday ABOUT 75% of schools expel girls who fall pregnant, but only 25% of schools also expel the father of the child. “There’s not a school in the country that doesn’t have to face the problem of pregnancy among learners,” says Ken Alston, acting rector of the Teachers’ Centre in East […]
A FRENCH tourist was attacked and killed by an angry elepant he was filming in southern Kenya’s Tsavo East national park, officials said on Friday. The Kenya Tourist Federation said in a statement that Jacques Boxberger (52) was trampled to death by the elephant at a picnic site in Tsavo where he had gone with […]
Brazzaville | Sunday IVORY COAST Transport Minister Kabran Appia on Saturday urged his counterparts from the 11 countries that own Air Afrique to find “definitive options” to save the troubled company. “We must save Air Afrique,” he said. “We must find definitive options … the heads of state summit must decide on a definitive solution,” […]
AT least 91 people died and 146 were injured when a train struck a landmine east of the Angolan capital Luanda, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported on Saturday. The train, consisting of four passenger cars, two freight cars and two oil containers, was derailed by the explosion. Some 500 passengers were reported aboard. Angola, […]
Pretoria | Sunday SANCTIONS against Zimbabwe have had little or no effect and are not a viable way to effect change in that country, President Thabo Mbeki’s spokesman said on Saturday. Bheki Khumalo said some countries had followed a policy of “loud diplomacy” — openly criticising the government of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe — and […]
THE United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said on Saturday that 400 Angolan refugees had been repatriated from the neighbouring Republic of Congo. ”They arrived on Friday in Cabinda province where they are restarting their lives,” Julie Stewart, an external relations officer with the UNHCR, said from Cabinda. Oil-rich Cabinda is a coastal sliver of […]
LUCIA MUTIKANI, Johannesburg | Sunday COMPANY representatives and striking auto workers met arbitrators on Friday to try to resolve a five-day work stoppage, union officials said. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is demanding a 12 percent salary increase and a two year wage agreement for its 21_000 members at seven assembly […]
MALAWIAN police fired teargas and used batons on Friday to disperse at least 500 teachers protesting against the government’s failure to deliver on a promised pay rise. The protests occurred as foreign ministers from the 14-member Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) met behind closed doors to prepare for an annual heads of state summit scheduled […]