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 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday PHARMACEUTICAL giant Bristol-Myers Squibb on Tuesday promised a ”significant reduction” in the price of Aids drugs to South Africa’s private sector, a move hailed by activists as likely to prolong tens of thousands of lives. BMS Aids unit manager Azima Batcha told a Cape Town seminar that an announcement […]
SOUTH African IT services firm Comparex Holdings said on Tuesday it had sold its remaining 16.6m shares in Dimension Data on the open market for over R700m between December 1 and May 7. ”The net proceeds (after costs) of the disposal amount to approximately R714m, which represents an average price of R43.01 per Dimension Data […]
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THE case of Swaziland’s alleged serial killer, David Simelane, has been postponed to next Monday for further investigation, SABC radio news reported. Simelane appeared in the Manzini Magistrate’s Court on Monday on 34 murder charges, following the discovery of 29 bodies at the Malkerns forest in Swaziland about a month ago. When Magistrate Lindiwe Matse-Dlamini […]
A WOMAN in labour and her unborn baby were killed early on Monday near Acornhoek in the Northern Province when she fell from the ambulance rushing her to hospital. Police representative Inspector Moashe Ngoepe said Refiloe Masia, 28, of Green Valley in Acornhoek, was being rushed to Tintsoale Hospital at 2am after she started contractions. […]
A WESTERN Cape police VIP protection service superintendent appeared in the Goodwood Magistrate’s Court on Monday on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol, police said. Western Cape police representative Captain Jacques Wiese said Superintendent David Fortuin was arrested on Saturday night after being stopped at a roadblock in Pinelands during “Operation Beetle”, […]
MANUEL MUANZA, Luanda | Tuesday ANGOLAN rebels, defying government peace overtures, launched a new attack on Monday, two days after an attack near the capital Luanda claimed some 100 lives, the Roman Catholic Ecclesia radio reported. Residents in slums on the outskirts of Uije, capital of the northern province of the same name, fled into […]