RIGHTWING leader Eugene Terre’Blanche could be prosecuted after dogs, believed to be his, attacked a man in Ventersdorp on Friday night, North West police said. Johannes Mbele, 47, was attacked by a Boerboel and a German Shepherd outside Terre’Blanche’s house in Ventersdorp. Mbele claimed the dogs came from Terre’Blanche’s yard. A security guard on duty […]

POLICE in Lagos have arrested a woman illegally holding 16 teenage boys at her home following a tip-off by her neighbours. The children, aged between nine and 16 years, were in various stages of ill-health, neighbours said. Police said the woman kept the children in her custody for several months without the consent of their […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH African doctors are testing the HIV status of workers without their knowledge or consent and revealing it to their employers, AIDS activists said on Tuesday, calling for disciplinary action against them. Some workers were fired after their tests came up positive, The Star newspaper reported. The Johannesburg-based AIDS Law […]

AN 18-year-old is being held for questioning after being arrested at a Sandton house where Mandrax tablets with an estimated street value of R18m were seized at the weekend, Johannesburg police said. A Mercedes Benz, which was hijacked earlier, and other stolen goods were also found at the house. A police reservist patrolling the area […]

PHILLIP NKOSI, Pietersburg | Tuesday A SHOCKING picture of mismanagement of about 54 state-owned nature reserves in the Northern Province has emerged, with seven reserves running up a deficit of more than R10m within three years. Officials also failed to maintain reserve fences and combat poaching, which has driven the region’s indigenous parrots to the […]

GLOBAL paper and pulp group Sappi says it has bought back more than 9.7m of its own shares on the open market for R541m to bolster shareholder value. At the same time, Dutch business supplies firm Buhrmann NV said it would sell its remaining five percent stake in Sappi to investors. The buyback has helped […]

FORMER president Jerry Rawlings was given an apparent rap over the knuckles by the new Ghanaian government after he visited some military installation in the capital Accra last week. In a terse statement, Defence Minister Kwame Addo-Kufuor said that from now on “all eminent persons and diplomats wishing to enter restricted military facilities should seek […]

THE petrol price will drop by 13 cents to the litre on Wednesday, further easing consumer worries raised by a 30% petrol increase over the best part of last year. Diesel will drop by 16 cents to the litre while illuminating paraffin drops by 25 cents, offering hope for millions of users ahead of the […]

EGYPT’S Orascom Telecom is emerging as a significant regional player as it buys up mobile phone licenses in Africa, the Middle East and Pakistan. Analysts with Cairo-based EFG-Hermes and London-based HSBC are bullish on OT’s long-term prospects, saying it has positioned itself well to profit from surging growth in mobile phone use in countries lacking […]

A BANGLADESHI court has asked Dhaka prison officials to produce a Nigerian languishing in jail here since 1992 after being sentenced to a two-month term. A High Court ruled Goddyu Ochendo should be produced this week. Ochendo, 28, and his teenage American girl Elieda MacCord were arrested in Dhaka airport in March 1992 and charged […]