THE UN Security Council plans to lift its five-year-old sanctions on Sudan this month with the agreement of the United States, council president Jean-David Levitte of France said on Wednesday. Outlining the council’s programme of work, he told a news conference he had scheduled a September 17 meeting to adopt a resolution to remove the […]

Abuja | Thursday A COMMONWEALTH conference on the situation in Zimbabwe was due to get under way in Nigeria early on Thursday with arriving delegates expressing a cautious optimism after an offer from white farmers aimed at resolving the country’s land dispute. Ministers and officials from Australia, Britain, Canada, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and […]

Johannesburg | Wednesday THE rand hit a record low value against the dollar early on Tuesday because of concern in South Africa about the political and economic situation in neighbouring Zimbabwe, dealers said. The rand fell to 8,48 to the dollar shortly after South African markets opened on Tuesday, but soon recovered to 8,46. The […]

TEN people were wounded when gunmen in a vehicle fired on a cinema in the southern Somali town of Jowhar. Eight of those wounded during the attack late on Monday were moviegoers and two were assailants shot when cinema guards returned fire. The motive for the attack was said to be revenge as the gunmen […]

SA Airways made history on Tuesday when an all-women crew for the first time operated a SAA jet from Johannesburg to Port Elizabeth and back. ”We are truly proud of the achievements of our women captains and flight crew,” SAA chief executive Andre Viljoen said in a statement. The historic flight on a Boeing 737-200 […]

THE Wynberg Magistrate’s Court ordered on Tuesday that an alleged child killer be sent to the Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital in Cape Town for 30 days observation, SABC television news reported. Johannes Lugwag (34) allegedly slit 12-year-old Stacey Philander’s throat in front of her friends last week when they were on the way to school in […]