A LEADING Mozambican banker was found dead outside his office in the capital Maputo in a suspected murder case, police said on Sunday. The body of Antonio Siba Siba, chairman of Mozambique’s largest commercial bank Banco Austral, was found late on Saturday after apparently after falling six floors. He either fell or was pushed, police […]

ZENZELE KUHLASE, Nelspruit | Monday THE only thing that protects a traumatised eight-year-old Mpumalanga girl from the man who apparently raped and brutalised her, is her mother’s wicked looking panga. The child was raped so violently that she can no longer control her bladder or bowl movements, and is terrified of all men – including […]

SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Monday ZIMBABWE’S white farmers on Sunday called for swift action to halt mounting lawlessness in the countryside, accusing ‘marauding bands’ of wreaking havoc following clashes between white farmers and resettled blacks. Farming officials said looting and vandalism of property were ongoing in the troubled Doma farming region near Chinhoyi, 100 kilometers […]

GILBERTO NETO, Luanda | Monday THE death toll from an attack on a passenger train in Angola has risen to close to 100, state-run radio reported on Sunday. Radio Nacional, quoting government and military sources, said the Friday attack 150km southeast of Luanda had also injured around 120 people. The train hit a landmine laid […]

A MILITARY triumvirate in charge of the breakaway Comoran island of Anjouan following a coup said on Friday it is committed to a process aimed at reuniting the Indian Ocean archipelago into a new entity. A statement identified the members of a three-man “politico-military transition commission” which took power on Thursday as gendarmerie chief major […]

Johannesburg | Monday A STRIKE that brought South Africa’s car manufacturing industry to a near standstill last week would continue on Monday along with strikes in the metal and aluminium industries, a trade union representative said on Sunday. Dumisa Ntuli from the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said the union was organising […]

THIRTY-three people were killed and several others wounded in a weekend bus crash in eastern Zambia, police said on Monday. Police said the bus travelling from Malawi overturned and rolled into a gully on Saturday night. The driver survived the smash and is being questioned by police. – AFP

SHARES in Dimension Data dived 7,7% early on Friday in Johannesburg, in a catch-up from Thursday’s 12% losses in London, when the South African bourse was closed for a holiday. Didata shed more than a rand in early trade to a fresh four-year trough of R12,50, but by 0839 GMT gains in European tech stocks […]

A MOTHER and her three children were shot and killed by Islamic extremists at the weekend as they slept in their isolated country home in western Algeria, locals said on Sunday. Earlier, local media reported that five members of another family were killed and three others injured in an attack by armed militants in the […]

Johannesburg | Monday HUMAN trials on a new Aids vaccine will start simultaneously in the United States and in South Africa’s eastern port city of Durban in March 2002, it was reported on Sunday. The Sunday Independent reported that scientists were selecting 48 HIV-negative volunteers to take part in the phase one trials at Durban’s […]