Johannesburg | Tuesday CONSUMERS can expect an increase of up to 20% in the price of electronic appliances by January, based on the current rate of devaluation of the rand. This is the opinion of Martin Maddox, group managing director of Panasonic SA. He said on Tuesday that the dramatic plunge in the value of […]

THE number of former fighters in Sierra Leone’s civil war who have handed in their weapons has risen to 21 464, said Dandeson Smith, a representative for the National Disarmament Commission. He said that 12 600 of the former fighters, who have responded since the launching of the disarmament process in May, are working on […]

TOGOLESE authorities are still holding a journalist, Komi Nemvame Klu, who was arrested last Saturday for publishing “false information”. Klu, who is the director of the privately-owned weekly Nouvel Echo was arrested by the gendarmerie in Lome. The Panafrican News Agency (Pana) said authorities had demanded that Klu reveal the source of a story on […]

Cape Town | Tuesday HAVING fought publicly and stridently for over a week, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon and his deputy Marthinus van Schalkwyk on Tuesday opted to meet privately in Cape Town in a bid to save their alliance. Even their lieutenants remained tight-lipped, with one telling Sapa: “We don’t want the media camping […]

Abuja | Tuesday NIGERIA will leave no stone unturned to prevent further spread of HIV/Aids in the country, President Olusegun Obasanjo declared in Abuja on Monday as he kicked off a rally and a nationwide walk against the scourge. The HIV/Aids rally was organised by the National Action Committee on Aids. “We have played a […]

Pretoria | Tuesday FORTY-four people were taken to a Pretoria hospital for tests after an anthrax scare at the University of South Africa on Monday, university representative Doreen Gough reported. The first 20 examined all tested negative to the potentially fatal bacteria, as have those exposed to white powder in about a dozen previous scares […]

FOUR people, including a four-year old boy, were killed and six injured in fighting on Sunday between rival minibus taxi operators in eastern South Africa, police said. Captain Mzukisi Fatyela said the four-year-old died when gunmen opened fire on a taxi owner travelling with his family near Umtata in the southeast of the country. The […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday NEARLY 1 000 Zimbabweans are destitute and seeking refuge at a Johannesburg police station following the torching of their homes in a squatter camp, South African police said on Tuesday. “They have about 450 people looking for shelter at the police station and one of their leaders told me they have about […]

AN abandoned baby boy was found on a pavement in Brixton on Monday afternoon, Johannesburg police said. Captain Mary Martins-Engelbrecht said the man who found the baby told police that he heard the little boy cry when he was walking down Abercorn Road in Hursthill, Brixton around 4pm. The baby is between two and three […]