Johannesburg | Monday AN eAfrica commission would ensure that every high school graduate on the continent left school ”e-literate”, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said on Sunday. She was speaking at the formal opening ceremony of the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) Telecom Africa 2001 conference in Johannesburg. ”Education is important in crossing the digital divide. The […]

Nigel | Wednesday JUDGEMENT in the case of alleged incest between a 66-year old Delmas grandfather and his 33-year old daughter was expected in the Nigel Regional Court on Wednesday. Robert Fedder was charged in August with incest after forensic tests showed that he could have been the father of the eldest son of his […]

Bloemfontein | Wednesday A SASOLBURG businessman who assaulted an employee and dragged him behind his bakkie for more than 5km was on Monday sentenced to an effective seven years imprisonment by a Bloemfontein judge. Piet Odendaal was on Monday convicted of culpable homicide for causing the death of his employee Mosoko Rampuru in August last […]

JOHANNESBURG police were still questioning a 24-year-old man and his mother on Tuesday in connection with the disappearance and murder of Nasiphi Mokenene (3) in Alexandra, north of Johannesburg, police said. The man handed himself over to the Alexandra police station on Monday after Nasiphi was found butchered over the weekend. The man has not […]

RICHARD THOMPSON, Johannesburg | Wednesday THE South African gold mining industry announced on Wednesday a new best practice guideline for managing cyanide, drawn up in consultation with government, labour, non-governmental organisations and cyanide suppliers. Addressing a press conference in Johannesburg, Bernard Swanepoel –chairman of the gold producers committee of the Chamber of Mines — said […]

MARTIN PARRY, Quetta, Pakistan | Wednesday THE Taliban are slaughtering Afghans who try to flee the country, gunning them down in cold blood, refugees who have made it to Pakistan claim. On the outskirts of this southwestern Pakistan town, near the Afghan border, thousands of ”invisible” refugees exist in abject poverty. They have fled because […]

Doha | Tuesday WTO ministers meeting here reached a preliminary deal on access to generic medicines in developing countries, according to a copy of a draft text received on Tuesday. The text states that a World Trade Organisation agreement on protecting patented pharmaceuticals ”does not and should not” prevent countries taking measures to protect public […]

SEVEN Egyptians were ordered on Sunday to stand trial in state security court on charges of using explosives to dig for Pharaonic treasures and sell them illegally, judicial sources said. After shadowing foreign archeologists in the area of Al-Koreimat, 100 kilometers south of Cairo, the group allegedly used explosives to dig a hole 15 meters […]