MPUMALANGAs renegade lion almost caused a pile-up on the N4 highway just outside the provincial capital Nelspruit on Monday night when it dashed across the busy road. Shaken motorists called the local radio station from the scene, describing how the young male lion casually loped across the double-carriage motorway at 8pm before disappearing into orange […]
WERNER MENGES, Windhoek | Wednesday THE 125 men accused of high treason and other alleged offences in what is set to be Namibia’s biggest trial since Independence are set to appear in the High Court at Grootfontein tomorrow, with the ranks of their defence lawyers now reduced to one solitary attorney. Tsumeb attorney Chris van […]
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<b>Review:</b> Out of Bounds: Stories of Conflict and Hope by Beverley Naidoo (Penguin)
Lebo is one of the attractions at next month’s South African Women’s Arts Festival in Durban. She talks to Thebe Mabanga.
ZAMBIA plans to reform its tax system in a bid to stimulate economic growth and development, the finance ministry announced on Monday. A ministry statement said the tax reforms would be implemented as part of next year’s national budget. “The objective of the tax reform is to build a modern tax system that is conducive […]
A PRIVATE US surveillance airplane has been missing in Angola since 16 July, according to a report by Voice of America (VOA) on Friday. A spokesperson for the Florida-based firm Airscan was quoted by VOA as saying that one of its twin-engine Cessna 337s went missing on a night-time surveillance mission near Soyo, in the […]
MORE than 40 people have died of sunstroke after temperatures soared in Port Sudan on the Red Sea in recent days, a Sudanese press report said Tuesday. The independent Akhbar Al Youm daily said the port city is experiencing its most intense heat wave in 10 years, with temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit). […]
Johannesburg | Monday TWO of South Africa’s largest unions on Monday said some 65_000 members are two go on strike Wednesday and Thursday at mining companies and the country’s giant steel manufacturer. National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) spokesman Moferefere Lekorotsoana said the union had issued a 48-hour notice of mass action at the Goldfields, Harmony […]
HUNDREDS of people protested angrily outside a court here Monday after the judge hearing a suit against US drugs company Pfizer failed to turn up and case had to be adjourned. A high court in Kano, northern Nigeria, in March gave leave to three Nigerian families to sue Pfizer in a class action over tests […]