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 […]

A MEMBER of the Naboomspruit Commando will appear in court again on October 5 after he allegedly shot and killed a farm labourer last week, said Northern Province police. Captain Blackie Swart said Pieter Swanepoel appeared in court on Monday on a charge of murder. This followed an incident last week Thursday when a farm […]

MARIETTE LE ROUX, Skukuza | Thursday FIFTEEN of the 19 people killed in Tuesday night’s veld fire in the Kruger National Park (KNP) could have survived if they remained in their camp instead of fleeing, officials said on Wednesday. ”It appears that those who died tried to run from the fire, but the flames caught […]

AN Indonesian court has sentenced a Malawian to life imprisonment for smuggling one kilogram of heroin into the country. The district court of Tanggerang, west of here, sentenced Namaona Denis (35) after it found him guilty of attempting to smuggle the narcotics through Jakarta’s Sukarno-Hatta international airport on April 15, the Jakarta Post reported. Denis, […]