A third South African police officer has been arrested for his apparent involvement in a group that are said to have raped young girls, The Star reports. The arrest this week follows investigations of at least 15 members of Pretoria’s Flying Squad. By Monday, four girls had already made statements to the investigating officers, and […]

THE Rwandan army killed 35 rebels and took into custody 21 others, most of them minors, after they launched an attack in a town in northwestern Rwanda, the deputy army chief said this week. The attack in Nyamutera, near Ruhengeri, was launched early on Sunday and continued until Monday morning, according to Brigadier General James […]

US Secretary of State Colin Powell left Washington late on Tuesday for his first African tour, a five-day trip that ends on Sunday. The trip is seen as an effort by the new administration to maintain US interest in Africa, building on the personal attention lavished on the troubled continent by former president Bill Clinton, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Mbabane | Thursday THE Swaziland government has banned two news publications critical of the authorities for a second time, barely a week after the Swaziland High Court lifted an earlier ban on one of them. The government banned the weekly Guardian newspaper and monthly Nation magazine, both privately owned publications, in a gazette […]

JACQUES NELL might be the first white member to serve on the Northern province executive of the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce (Nafcoc) if he is elected at the organisation’s annual provincial conference on Thursday. Nell, who served as president of the South African Chamber of Business (SACOB) in Pietersburg for two years until […]

FORMER White House intern Monica Lewinsky wants to get back the blue dress reputed to carry traces of semen from former president Bill Clinton. Her lawyers are negotiating with investigators for the return of the dress, the Washington Times has quoted Lewinsky’s publisher as saying. The scandal surrounding Lewinsky and Clinton nearly cost Clinton the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday THE war of words between the Mail & Guardian newspaper and the ANC has now come to a head in court, with the newspaper demanding a public apology from Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe. Radebe, on behalf of the ANC, told the Human Rights Commission hearing into racism in the […]

SOUTH Africa’s biggest sugar firm Illovo Sugar said on Monday its headline earnings per share for the year ended March 31 had fallen 23% to 67.5 cents, but earnings would show good growth in the coming year. Illovo said it had paid a dividend of 34 cents compared to 48 cents for the previous year. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Thursday FOREIGN investment in Zimbabwe dropped 61% between January and April this year compared to the same period last year, the country’s investment promotion agency was on Thursday quoted as saying. The state-owned Business Herald said statistics from the Zimbabwe Investment Centre (ZIC) showed that only 24 projects compared to 63 […]