DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila on Thursday held talks in Johannesburg with trade officials, Congolese exiles and former president Nelson Mandela and called for closer ties between South Africa and his wartorn country. Kabila, visiting South Africa with 10 of his cabinet ministers, told reporters: “I have come to try to build […]

Johannesburg | Thursday AN outbreak of foot-and-mouth cattle disease has spread to four areas in the Beitbridge district, on the South African border, Zimbabwean state radio said Thursday. The outbreak was first detected two weeks ago in the second city of Bulawayo, 350 kilometers southeast of Harare, but the disease has now been found on […]

BARRY STREEK, Cape Town | Friday THE Democratic Alliance has put Cape Town’s controversial mayor, Peter Marais, on compulsory leave and suspended two DA councillors in the city for their role in the “streetgate” affair. The councillors now face a criminal investigation for fraud, which stems from an inquiry by advocate Willem Heath into the […]

PAUL KIRK, Durban | Friday DESPITE assurances to the contrary, one of the Big Brother contestants has not been cleared of all charges relating to his illegal possession of a machine gun and an unlicensed 9mm pistol. This week it emerged that Bradford Wood has a murky history – having in the past been charged […]

SIXTY-six soldiers and 14 civilians charged with plotting a coup and other political offences in the Democratic Republic of Congo went on trial on Wednesday. The trial before a military court began in the town of Likasi, in southeastern Katanga province, the report said. According to human rights group ASADHO, the accused have been divided […]

Durban | Friday The World Conference Against Racism had to convey the message that the people of the world were determined to unite to repair the “gross human damage” of the past, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. “Nobody ever chose to be a slave, to be colonised, to be racially oppressed. The impulses of […]