A PRISONER was killed and two others were injured when inmates clashed in the Johannesburg Prison’s Medium B section on Monday morning, Gauteng correctional services representative Rob Robilliard said prison officials brought the situation under control. It was not known who killed the prisoner but it was believed to be a fellow inmate. The cause […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Wednesday ANGOLAN rebels abducted 60 children in a fierce weekend attack on a town near the capital to use them as “political hostages”, a UN special adviser on African affairs said on Tuesday in Luanda. Ibrahim Gambari, adviser to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said: “Taking hostages for political ends is a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday THE chief whip of South Africa’s ruling party has dug in his heels over allegations that he was given a car by a company involved in a $5.5bn arms deal, a report to parliament showed on Tuesday. Parliament’s ethics committee received a report from the registrar of MPs’ assets […]
FOUR Angolan soldiers were arrested at the weekend after they allegedly threatened to burn down villages in the Mukwe constituency in the Kavango Region, the Namibia Press Agency reported on Monday. Regional councillor for the Mukwe constituency, John Thighuru, called on villagers to report Angolan soldiers loitering and threatening people to Namibian security forces. Thighuru […]
A MAN who stabbed a woman several times and cut off her thumb is believed to have wrapped it in a bag with her faeces before taking it to a Northern Province sangoma. Police representative Inspector Moatshe Ngoepe said the man attacked Stella Gumede, 34 at around 2.30pm on Monday when she was walking back […]
A GROUP of Arab states have announced a plan to form a free-trade zone in order to be better placed to face the challenges of globalisation. The decision, contained in an official statement published after a meeting of representatives of 10 Arab-Mediterranean nations and the Palestinian Authority, expands on an earlier idea for Egypt, Morocco, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday SOUTH Africa’s main miners union on Wednesday accused the mining company Gold Fields of negligence, a day after 12 workers were killed in an underground explosion at its Beatrix gold mine. Two people were also burned, one seriously. “Management acted irresponsibly by sending workers into a precarious, potentially dangerous situation,” […]
TEN Benin nationals trafficking 11 children from their country have been intercepted in Togo and repatriated, a police source in the Beninois capital Cotonou said on Monday. The source said the 10 adults were arrested last Monday in the company of the children. He said the children were being cared for by a children’s rights […]
TWELVE miners died in an underground explosion at a gold mine in South Africa’s central Free State province on Tuesday, the Goldfields company announced. The explosion, about 850 metres below the surface, occurred at 9:30 am when 4_000 miners were underground. Two people were injured, one of whom was in a critical condition, said mine […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday THE Freedom Front has lodged a complaint with the Press Ombudsman against an article published in the Mail and Guardian newspaper recently. The article, under the headline ”Arts festival or Boerfest”, was written by Zebulon Dread and dealt with Afrikaners and the Klein Karoo Arts Festival. FF leader Dr […]