Nairobi | Monday LAWYERS representing some 220 members of the Maasai and Samburu in compensation claims against the British army have said they believe the UK government could now be willing to settle the claims. A London-based lawyer, Martyn Day, described a meeting with UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials on Thursday as “fruitful”, adding […]

Durban | Friday A DEAL between Russian diamond monopoly Alrosa and South African diamond giant De Beers is likely to be delayed until next year, sources in Moscow told the Johannesburg daily newspaper Business Day. The current contract between Alrosa, which is the second-biggest diamond producer in the world, and De Beers for the sale […]

Mbabane | Monday KING Mswati III of Swaziland has announced a 15-member team to draft a new constitution within the next 18 months. Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Chief Maweni Simelane made the announcement on state radio late on Saturday. He said international experts would assist in drafting the constitution. The team includes only […]

Johannesburg | Monday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki has stepped up criticism of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, saying his counterpart could no longer expect protection while the political crisis there deepens, a newspaper reported Sunday. “He wants Mugabe to know that he should not expect protection any more. Up to now we have rallied behind […]

SIX children, one as young as four, have been arrested in Senegal for killing a two-year-old boy by stuffing sand in his mouth, police said on Friday. The six boys were arrested on Thursday after the discovery of the young victim’s body partly buried on the outskirts of St. Louis, on the Atlantic coast of […]

THREE miners died and four were injured in a gold mine at Carletonville on Saturday when an earth tremor caused a gallery to cave in, Anglogold mining company reported. Two survivors were hospitalised with serious injuries in the cave in west of Johannesburg. The accident occurred 2 100 metres underground while the victims were carrying […]

TWO South Africans were arrested on Friday for circulating a hoax note in the home affairs department saying Osama bin Laden had entered the country last month, an official said. An immigration official and a security guard had filed a report on the department’s database saying the main suspect in the September 11 attacks had […]

NINETY-nine percent of the 4,8-million disabled people in South Africa are unemployed, Disability Resource Solutions said on Sunday. Managing director Lorna Fick said on the eve of the International Day for the Disabled that one in four families was affected by a person with a disability. ”Corporate South Africa still has a long way to […]

Johannesburg | Monday The ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) criticised the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) on Sunday for taking the government to court over the use of Nevirapine. ”The NEC viewed as unfortunate the court case brought against government by the TAC,” an African National Congress statement on the weekend’s NEC meeting said. ”The meeting […]

A POLICE inspector was recovering in the Groote Schuur Hospital after being shot in a hijacking on Sunday, Western Cape police said on Monday. Colin Barendse (34) was shot in the right arm and chest. Barendse, who is stationed in Khayelitsha, was on his way to pick up colleagues for work, when four men stopped […]