A NEW and affordable savings plan, aimed at the lower end of the market, has been launched by Sanlam. The Halala savings plan enables one to save as little as R50 a month over a minimum period of 10 years. Sanlam brand manager for the emerging market, Jimmy Makgato, on Wednesday said that there were […]

THERE was high demand at this week’s East African tea auction, with brisk trading on the floor for quality leafs that were on offer, Africa Tea Brokers (ATB) said in a market report released on Wednesday. According to the ATB report, most catalogues recorded an increase of an average of $1.5 on best lots due […]

A TRUCK convoy arrived in Kolomba, a southeast Guinean town Wednesday to begin moving some 50_000 refugees from neighbouring Sierra Leone to a safer place in central Guinea, more remote from a combat zone. The refugees were assembled in a salient of Guinea territory known as the Parrot’s Beak, adjacent to Sierra Leone, where they […]

THE hearing on child abuse conducted by the SA Human Rights Commission continued on Thursday in Dube, Soweto. The hearing is to investigate the way child abuse cases are handled by courts, to make findings and recommendations and to ensure that criminal investigations into child abuse in Gauteng are done properly. The commission on Wednesday […]

FIVE people – an Australian, three New Zealand tourists and a pilot – were killed in a plane crash over the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana this week, a Botswana aviation official said on Wednesday. The plane was about to land at an airport on Tuesday afternoon, after a game flight over the Moremi Game […]

AT least five people were killed and 10 others wounded after heavily armed militiamen battled each other in southern Mogadishu on Wednesday morning, witnesses and medical sources said. The fighting was sparked by a land dispute in southern Mogadishu’s populous Black Sea neighbourhood, the witnesses said. Two of those killed and three wounded were militiamen, […]

RESCUERS recovered seven bodies on Friday from the port of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a day after a ship sank there, bringing the death toll from the accident to 12. Goma, which is in the hands of rebels, has no rescue or fire service, but workers resumed their search […]

A university in southern Nigeria this week expelled more than 10_000 students – a third of those enrolled at the school – for forging their credentials, a press report said this week. The students, who were among 30 000 enrolled at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma in Edo State, were asked to leave campus immediately, the […]