A COUP attempt in the breakaway Comoran island of Anjouan has been foiled and its mastermind, former leader Lieutenant-Colonel Said Abeid Abderemane has fled, a military source said on Sunday. An unnamed military source announced on Radio Anjouan that “the army and loyalist forces are in control of the situation,” after the attempted putsch by […]

CAPE TOWN, Dirk van Zyl | Monday NEGOTIATING teams from the African National Congress and the New National Party met on Sunday to discuss the structures of future co-operation between the two parties. This would be based on principles agreed on at a number of meetings between the two working groups during the past week, […]

Lusaka | Thursday AFRICA’S first free trade area (FTA), launched a year ago by some nine countries of the 21-member Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), has been a success, an official said on Wednesday. ”Trade and investment has increased in the Comesa region after the FTA came into effect,” said Sebiso Ngwenya, […]

JENNI EVANS, Johannesburg | Monday WINNIE Madikizela-Mandela will be told to stop the reconstruction of her businesses which were demolished last month and will be assigned an inspector to help her comply with bylaws to resolve the matter, Johannesburg’s mayoral representative said on Monday. The tavern, club and tuck shop outside her house were demolished […]

HEALTH authorities were looking for ways to come up with lucrative packages to encourage people to work in rural areas, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Sunday. ”There are financial and other non-monetary incentives, including the improvement of working and living conditions, for our health workers in the rural areas that will be investigated,” Tshabalala-Msimang […]

A 25-YEAR-old man shot and wounded three children before turning the gun on himself at Tambo section in Mbalenhle on Saturday afternoon, Mpumalanga police said. Captain Sibongile Nkosi said the man went to his girlfriend’s house at around 1.30pm, and on arrival, apparently told her that he had an argument with his brother. He then […]

Bethelsdorp | Monday A 37-year-old policeman was shot and killed on Sunday night during an argument with residents of Bethelsdorp, outside Port Elizabeth over an annual Guy Fawkes tradition, Eastern Cape police reported on Monday. Superintendent Johann van Greunen said the incident occurred while Sergeant Andrew Gwijila and his partner Captain Edith Jili were addressing […]

Kisangani | Monday MEDIA watchdog Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres, RSF) on Sunday called on rebel leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo to release an imprisoned journalist and begin respecting freedom of the press. RSF wrote Azarias Ruberwa, secretary general of the Rwandan-backed Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), asking him ”to liberate this […]

THE man accused of shooting a motorcyclist in an apparent road rage killing in August will appear briefly in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Owen Kroeger is on R5 000 bail following the shooting of Morare Matekane, who damaged the mirror of Kroeger’s car in a minor accident in central Johannesburg. A report of […]

A PREGNANT woman sentenced to death by stoning by an Islamic court in Nigeria has fled her home. Safiya Tungar-Tudu (33) was sentenced to death by stoning after being convicted of adultery by an Islamic court in the northwestern town of Gwadabawa, in Sokoto State, northwest Nigeria, on October 9. Earlier this week, she disappeared […]