FRED ESBEND, Port Elizabeth | Friday SHORTLY after being voted South Africa’s top mayor in a survey by a business magazine, Port Elizabeth mayor Nceba Faku’s reputation has been tarnished by allegations that he misused council funds for his personal ends. The Democratic Alliance this week revealed a staggering R87 000 discretionary fund splurge in […]
RESIDENTS in a town in southern Central African Republic brandished sticks this week to beat off dogs, after two people died of rabies after being fatally bitten, national radio reported on Thursday. “With a number of dogs spreading the disease, the local population has been forced to move around with sticks to avoid being bitten […]
Mail & Guardian reporters, Johannesburg | Friday AS Tony Yengeni became the second African National Congress parliamentary casualty of the arms deal, speculation mounted this week that he could be a strategic sacrifice whose arrest will protect more influential players. Former defence minister Joe Modise and army procurement chief Chippy Shaik top the list of […]
A six-year-old boy was beaten to death and his body then burnt while on his way to a shop at Sundumbili in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday night, police said on Friday. Captain Vishnu Naidoo said Thandokwakhe Manguele was sent to the shop by his grandmother when a 22-year-old man allegedly beat him with a stick […]
AN 82-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital after he and his elderly sister were overpowered and assaulted by three gunmen during a robbery on their farm outside Zeerust on Sunday night. Inspector Erica Roos said the men hit the siblings and demanded liquor and money before fleeing from the farm Koedoesfontein. ”The […]
THE African National Congress’ (ANC) national working committee would decide the position of the party’s former Chief Whip, Tony Yengeni, as an ordinary Member of Parliament on Monday, SABC radio news reported. Yengeni has indicated that he will abide by its decision. He resigned as Chief Whip last week as Chief Whip after being arrested […]
Christchurch | Monday A DUNEDIN psychiatrist murdered his wife because he believed it was better for his finances and reputation than dumping her for his mistress, the Crown said in the High Court at Christchurch today. South African-born Colin Bouwer (51) the head of psychiatric medicine for Healthcare Otago, allegedly told a group of Otago […]
A 24-year-old man was stabbed to death at Mukumbani near Thohoyandou on Thursday by a man who accused him of being too long on a public telephone, police said on Friday. Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said the man was stabbed to death after he refused to let the suspect use the public telephone. The dead man […]
FINANCE Minister Trevor Manuel is to be awarded a Doctor of Commerce (DComm) degree at the University of Stellenbosch when the university confers seven honorary doctorates and one honorary masters degrees at graduation ceremonies in December this year and March 2002. The university said Manuel had redefined service provision to the disadvantaged and shifted government […]
THE Lotus Gardens Mosque in Laudium, west of Pretoria, was vandalised on Sunday night, police said on Monday morning. Police representative Inspector Piletji Sebola said parts of the building and windows were damaged during the attack. ”A preliminary investigation has found that vandalism is suspected.” Sebola said the incident had no definite links to US […]