ELEVEN people, including seven members of the Algerian security forces, were killed Sunday by Islamic extremists near Batna, some 430km southeast of the capital Algiers, the security services announced. The security personnel were killed in a firefight after going to the scene of a roadside murder of four civilians, witnesses said. The security forces gave […]

THE share price of listed furniture retail group Profurn plummeted 45% late on Thursday after the group issued a warning that its earnings for the six months ending June 2001 would be “significantly lower” than those reported for the year earlier period. Profurn’s share price was last quoted at 60 cents, versus 109 cents late […]

A SURVEY by the Vitamin Information Centre that was published in the South African Medical Journal on Sunday revealed that 80% of households in the Eastern Cape go hungry, a report on SABC television news said. The report said that the province scored lowest on the national index of deprivation. The index is calculated according […]

INTERNET consultant Proxicom Inc has agreed to be acquired by Dimension Data Holdings Plc after Proxicom paid a $10m fee to end an earlier merger pact with Compaq Computer Corp. Compaq has indicated it would not sweeten its $266m takeover bid for Proxicom, after Proxicom embraced an alternative $376m offer by SA’s Dimension Data. On […]

A SOUTH African and a Nigerian appeared in a Perth court Monday charged with attempting to smuggle $1-million worth of heroin into Australia. South African Zomokule Mpu Mkwanazi (23), and Nigerian Francis Chukwud Umeloh (26), were charged in Perth Magistrate’s Court with knowingly attempting to import heroin. Mkwanazi allegedly had a kilogram of heroin strapped […]

MARIANNE MERTEN, Cape Town | Friday WE are divided and we will remain divided. Lets vote and go home, an African National Congress member of Parliaments ethics committee proposed. And for the first time ever the committee voted – mostly along party political lines. Minutes earlier Pan Africanist Congress MP Patricia de Lille had also […]

THAILAND wants to double trade with South Africa over the next few years, the country’s trade minister, Adisai Bodharamik, said in Johannesburg on Thursday. Bodharamik, speaking at Thailand’s Trade Exhibition at the Sandton Convention Centre, in northern Johannesburg, said trade between the two countries had exceeded $400-million during the last few years with significant growth […]

A SOUTH African defence forces helicopter came under fire in eastern KwaZulu-Natal province as police and soldiers mounted a joint operation after the deaths of at least seven people in faction fighting, a police officer said on Thursday. Captain At Slinger said the Oryx helicopter was not hit in the volley of automatic gunfire on […]

AUTHORITIES detained more than 21_000 South Africans along with foreigners at a detention centre between 1996 and 1999 because they believed they were illegal immigrants, parliament was told on Thursday. The 21_719 South Africans were released from the Lindela repatriation centre near Pretoria after being held for up to five days, the report said. The […]