Johannesburg | Monday SOUTH Africa’s rand opened slightly firmer on Monday, encouraged by news that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe had approved a deal to halt illegal land invasions, but traders said the mood was still wary. At 0645 GMT the currency was trading a cent firmer at 8,47 against the dollar, but had eased off […]

THE brother of the speaker of the Free State Legislature was arrested around 4am on Monday, for allegedly driving at 210km/h, police said. Captain Ernest Mayiki said White Mohapi, the younger brother of speaker Jani Mohapi would appear in court on Monday for a bail application. Mohapi does not work for the legislature, but was […]

NINE awaiting trial prisoners escaped from Kempton Park police station on Saturday, police said on Sunday. Inspector Nomsa Sekele said two police officers opened a cell around 7pm to check on the prisoners. They overpowered the officers and took the cell keys. Sekele said they locked the officers in the cell and then escaped. – […]

NICHOLAS KOTCH, Durban | Monday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday that aggressive diplomacy by the United States on Israel’s behalf had been counter-productive at a UN racism conference. He chided those Western European governments who sent low-level delegations to the talks he is hosting in Durban and denied that his view of […]

Durban | Sunday PALESTINIAN leader Yasser Arafat on Saturday briefed President Thabo Mbeki about the conflict in the Middle East during a bilateral meeting held at the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, the presidency said. ”The president was briefed about the situation in the Middle East and that the Middle East is sitting on […]

THE SA National NGO Coalition on Friday said its march to mark the opening of the World Conference Against Racism in Durban had exceeded all expectation. A massive crowd, tens of thousands strong was by noon still winding its way to the International Convention Centre where they were expecting UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and […]

NINA Zani has included Bradford Wood, her arch-rival for eviction from the television show Bigbrother, among her favourites in the house. The 23-year-old barlady from Cape Town told reporters shortly after her eviction from the Randburg house on Sunday night, that Brad ”definitely had something” and that he, along with fellow contestants Margaret, Ferdinand and […]

VOTER registration in preparation for general elections in Lesotho next year which was scheduled to be completed on Sunday, has been extended by three weeks. Lesotho’s Independent Electoral Commission chairman Leshele Thoahlane announced that the extension had been necessitated by technical and logistical problems encountered during the registration period. These prevented a large number of […]

Harare | Saturday ZIMBABWE will only move occupiers off farms not already earmarked for resettlement, meaning fewer than five percent of farms could be affected by a deal reached at Commonwealth talks, Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge said on Friday. “We will be dealing with land which has not been designated and which the government has […]