OLOFINDJI Akande, a failed candidate in Benin’s last presidential elections, is working overtime to construct a common tomb to repatriate the souls of former slaves back to Africa. “It may seem to be a little bit of a mystical phenomenon but we in Africa know secrets like that. I once saw my parents bring back […]

ZENZELE KUHLASE, Nelspruit | Tuesday A FORMER Roman Catholic Church priest has been charged with sodomising two boys at a child care centre in Mpumalanga, a year after completing a suspended sentence for molesting five other children. Father Joseph Michel Barrette was first sentenced in 1997 for sodomising five boys aged between 14 and 16 […]

THE Nigerian telecoms company Nitel has cut off most emergency lines to the police in Lagos over their unpaid bills. Lagos, home to more than 10-_million people, is one of Nigeria’s most violent cities and the under-funded police have now had most of their lines cut off, said deputy police commissioner Emmanuel Adebayo. Fewer than […]

A NORTHERN Province mother and her three children were found murdered in their house on Monday night, ten days after the Warmbaths Magistrate’s Court granted a protection order against the children’s father. Concerned neighbours alerted police that it had been quiet all day at the house in Extension 6 of Bela Bela, said a police […]

Durban | Tuesday FOREIGN Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says she does not believe that the absence of her United States counterpart Colin Powell will affect the outcome of the World Conference Against Racism in Durban later this week. Earlier a US government representative announced that he would not attend the conference and that a decision […]

Johannesburg | Monday About 30 0000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) will join in the two-day anti-privatisation strike called by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), the union said on Tuesday. ”The privatisation of state assets, as seen through the strategic partnership ventures, has borne negative implications for thousands of […]

Cape Town | Tuesday SOUTH Africa would be in deep trouble if developing countries were suddenly called upon to make a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, the National Assembly’s minerals and energy and environmental affairs committees heard on Tuesday. Addressing members at a one-day workshop on climate change, an expert in the field, Harald Winkler, […]