SIX men charged with setting their police dogs on illegal immigrants in a ”training exercise” go on trial in the Pretoria High Court on Monday. The charges against the men include three of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, one of corruption and one of attempting to defeat the ends of justice. Jacobus […]

TWO Slovakian nationals were arrested with “suitcases full” of tortoises on the Cape West Coast this week, and are being held in custody after appearing briefly in court on Thursday. The men, Martin Kjskjn and Martin Uricek, are to be charged with illegal possession, collection and transport of 113 angulate tortoises, also known as “rooipens […]

THE Muslim holy month of Ramadan will start on Friday in Libya, the official Jana news agency reported. The government had based its decision on the lunar calendar, Jana said on Wednesday. Ramadan is the ninth month in Islam’s lunar calendar when Muslims believe God revealed the holy Koran to the Prophet Mohammad. The holiday […]

FIFTEEN people have killed and many others were seriously injured in a pipeline explosion in Nigeria’s south eastern Imo State, national television reported on Thursday. The explosion happened near the town of Umudike, the television said, showing footage of some of those burnt to death in the incident. Imo State Governor Achike Udenwa has visited […]

MALAWI’S President Bakili Muluzi is expected in Maputo Thursday for a two-day visit that will include talks with his Mozambican counterpart Joaquim Chissano. Chissano press representative Antonio Matonse said the two leaders would hold “consultations on bilateral and regional issues”. Muluzi is the chairmen of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and Chissano is head […]

MUNGO SOGGOT and BARRY STREEK, Cape Town | Friday Friday: 9am Scorpions sting Shabir Shaik SHABIR Shaik, a bidding contractor in the multi-billion rand arms procurement deal, was arrested in Durban on Friday morning for possession of classified government documents, said National Director of Public Prosecutions representative Sipho Ngwema. Ngwema said Shaik was allegedly in […]

A 20-year-old Fidelity guard was shot dead during a cash-in-transit heist on the N2 near Port Elizabeth early on Friday morning, Eastern Cape police said. Captain Dirk Coetzee said three guards were travelling in a Telkom vehicle when two cars pushed them off the road near the Greenbushes off-ramp. Shots were fired and one guard […]

A DOZEN heavily armed riot police on Wednesday searched the home and office of a prominent university of Malawi researcher in Zomba, near the commercial capital of Blantyre. “They literally turned upside down my home and office,” said Wiseman Chijere Chirwa. The professor said he was served with a search warrant and a charge of […]

Lagos | Saturday A FRENCH medical team that visited the northern Nigerian city of Kano, where a cholera outbreak has already claimed over 250 lives, said the situation there was serious and the hospital “overflowing”. Volunteer medical group Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) – Doctors Without Borders – sent a medical team to the cholera-ravaged city […]

GOOLAM Hoosain Ismael Pahad, the father of Essop Pahad, Minister in the Presidency and Aziz Pahad, Deputy Foreign Minister died, on Thursday evening, a statement issued on behalf of the family said. He was 90 years old. Pahad was a leading member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the South African Indian Congress from the […]