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 […]

PETER CUNLIFFE-JONES, Kongho, Nigeria | Sunday THE first time Iduate Enoch saw a turtle, he killed the beast and ate it. Now he goes out at night persuading others to let them live. ”It is a bit embarrassing,” says Enoch, a stalwart member of the Akassa Coast Conservation Initiative, or the Turtle Club as it […]

A DURBAN morgue worker and another man were arrested for trafficking of body parts on Friday, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Director Bala Naidoo said the anti-corruption unit and the elite crime fighting unit, the Scorpions, followed up information on the man who was employed at the Gale Street mortuary. Both a dealer and the man were […]

BONGANI MAGASELA, Cape Town | Sunday AIDS has been acknowledged as a serious threat to SA boxing while a number of rules and regulations could be amended or done away with when Boxing South Africa comes into effect next year. This became clear at the national convention in Cape Town on Saturday after separate reports […]

DRAFT legislation that aims to establish a single official scientific body to promote the development of research and the exchange of such knowledge in South Africa was passed unanimously by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Friday. Responding to debate on the measure in the House, Science and Technology Deputy Minister Bridgitte Mabandla said […]