Cape Town | Thursday AN application that the trial of five Pagad members for the murder of Cape ganglord Rashaad Staggie be declared a mistrial will continue in the Cape High Court on Thursday, SABC radio news reported on Wednesday. Defence lawyers for the five members of People Against Drugs and Gangsterism (Pagad) asked presiding […]

BEN MACLENNAN, ANGELA QUINTAL, Cape Town | Thursday IN a day of high political drama, Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel was suspended from the New National Party on Wednesday after speaking out against its ”reckless and self-destructive” decision to leave the Democratic Alliance and co-operate with the African National Congress. On Wednesday night he was […]

Former president Nelson Mandela made a strong plea for world peace after receiving the Newsmaker of the Decade award.

SIX staff members at the US consulate general in Durban, South Africa, were taken to a hospital for tests after an anthrax scare Tuesday, said public relations officer Amelia Broderick. She said the secretary to consul general Craig Kuehl opened a typed envelope, addressed to the consulate general, which contained “an unidentified white powder”. “We […]

THE South African government is concerned about the deaths of civilians in Afghanistan, and has called for constraint in the use by the US of military strikes, an official said on Tuesday. “While South Africa recognises the right of the United States government to track down the perpetrators of the September 11 terrorist attacks to […]

TWO South African Airways flights were grounded on Thursday night, after flight attendants and personnel in Cape Town discovered a latex glove and “white powerdery substance” on a plane being readied for flight to Johannesburg. According to SAA, all personnel were ordered to leave the aircraft. The police were called, and chemical decontamination specialists Waste […]

THE Zimbabwe government has approved the commercialisation of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) into a public company wholly owned by the government. The Herald reported that the ZBC commercialisation Bill will soon go to parliament. The Bill intends to split the public broadcaster into two separate companies: one responsible for Broadcasting and the other for […]

EGYPTIAN President Hosni Mubarak offered support to the United States in its war on terrorism, but reiterated his opposition to a prolonged conflict that goes beyond Afghanistan, in an interview with Newsweek magazine. “I support the United States in fighting terrorism,” Mubarak said in the interview to appear in the weekly’s Monday edition. “We suffered […]

GLENDA DANIELS, Johannesburg | Friday AMENDMENTS to the Labour Relations Act – recently hailed as a major breakthrough between labour, business and the government – remain bedeviled by controversial sticking points and may not see the light of day this year. Hitches remain over the right to strike on retrenchments, seen as the major concession […]