JOHANNESBURG police have asked local authorities to drain the artificial Bruma Lake, where five bodies have been found in the past nine months, fearing a serial killer is on the loose. Two more bodies of middle-aged men were found this week in the lake, east of the city centre, which is surrounded by a shopping […]
THE national road death toll since the summer holidays began on December 1 had reached at least 851 by noon on Sunday and was expected to climb with the big rush home underway. The road safety campaign, Arrive Alive, said it expected traffic volumes to peak in the late afternoon on all the country’s major […]
Swazilands only airline has suspended all morning flights to South Africa following an unexpected drop in the number of business travellers over the festive season. Airlink Swaziland general manager President Dhlamini said many flights were running almost empty and the airline rationalised its services. Airlink Swaziland suspended all flights to Tanzania last year after the […]
FIVE people, including two opposition members of parliament, have been killed in a weekend road accident in central Gambia, the state media reported. Twelve others were injured. All were believed to have been aboard a minibus which rolled several times after a tyre burst on a road inland from Banjul. The two MPs, Bouba Samoura […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday AFRICAN National Congress Women’s League president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Monday broke her silence on her sensational letter to Deputy President Jacob Zuma, saying she had used the appropriate ANC internal channels to air her grievances. She was reacting to statements by unnamed ANC insiders quoted in The Citizen newspaper that […]
EXTERMINATORS who killed hundreds of rats being kept in a rented Cape Town house have found a three-month-old human foetus in a cupboard while removing the rat carcasses. The woman who kept them, Gwynneth Quick, 39, who referred to the rats as “my babies”, was hospitalised for psychiatric observation but later released. She worked as […]
MORE than 90% of voters have approved a new constitution for Senegal in a weekend referendum, giving President Abdoulaye Wade the green light to dissolve parliament and hold early general elections. The turnout, the only major unknown before the vote, was 66%, said Interior Minister Mamadou Niang. President Wade had said in the afternoon that […]
THE Nigerian government has announced a ban on the importation of vehicles and other goods overland in a bid to increase activity at its under-used ports. In recent years, thousands of cars have been imported into Nigeria from the neighbouring countries of Benin and Niger. Finance Minister Adamu Ciroma said the importation of electricity generators […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Sunday HARD on the heels of a South African cholera epidemic which has killed nearly 60 people, more than 50 have died from the disease and 2_400 fallen ill in the Mozambican capital Maputo, according to news reports. Hospitals in the capital were admitting between 40 and 50 new cholera patients […]
SOUTH Africa’s youngest Aids activist, 11-year-old Aids sufferer Nkosi Johnson, remains in a critical condition at home in Johannesburg. His foster mother Gail Johnson said Nkosi, who suffered three severe seizures at the weekend, was still semi-comatose. Doctors discovered Nkosi suffered brain damage after finding a layer of damaged tissue. Nkosi was initially given nine […]