THE United States has offered rewards of up to $5m for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Rwandan war crimes indictees who are still at large. The State Departments Richard Boucher said the rewards would be given for information that results in the “transportation” of indictees to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Monday TOP officials of state arms agency Armscor have gone into a huddle in Pretoria to discuss weekend reports of pending damages suits totalling more than R2bn – and accompanying allegations of shady deals at the highest levels. This follows reports at the weekend that two disgruntled military hardware companies were […]
BRENTON WILLIAMS and SIZWE SAMAYENDE, Jeffreys Bay | Monday ITS not great white sharks or even killer whales that terrify Jefferys Bays only black surfer – its racist white tourists. Jackson Jacko Pennington is still shaken after a group of aggressive white Northern Cape tourists confronted him on one of Jefferys Bays most popular beaches […]
A NIGERIAN minister accused of leaving a pregnant woman to die by the roadside after a fatal collision involving his convoy has gone abroad, his office said, as the couple who died were buried. Nigeria’s minister for Africa, Dapo Sarumi, left this week for an undisclosed destination for medical attention”. Critics suggested his health concerns […]
REPORTS of a gold strike in Mali by Hyundai Corp. have sent the stock price of the Hyundai Group’s trading arm soaring despite the company’s efforts to downplay exuberance. Hyundai confirmed it had discovered gold in the west African state, but in a statement to the Korea Stock Exchange, denied rumours that the find contained […]
A GANG of cash heist gangsters risked their lives for a mere R2 each after pension payout security guards foiled an ambush. The 10 heavily armed gangsters used three stolen vehicles to ambush a convoy of armoured vans belonging to Empilweni Pension Payout Services between Witbank and Siyabuswa, but the armoured van ferrying the money […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Abidjan | Monday AN attempted coup d’etat was underway early on Monday in the Ivory Coast, with heavy fighting wracking the countrys economic capital as loyalist forces attempted to overpower mutinous troops who had seized the television station. No toll from the fighting is immediately available and the situation on the ground remains […]
ALAN RAYBOULD, Abidjan | Monday FORCES loyal to the Ivory Coast government have regained control of the state radio headquarters in central Abidjan after dissident soldiers who had seized it overnight in an apparent coup bid left without a fight, local residents said. ”The (paramilitary) gendarmes just went in. There was no fighting,” a man […]
A SEVEN-year-old girl has become the second British tourist to die in South Africa in the past week after being swept over the Lisbon falls in Graskop, Mpumalanga. The girl and her mother, 32, were viewing the falls when the child slipped into the water. The mother tried to hold onto her daughter, but both […]
JAPANESE Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has arrived in Johannesburg for a six-day trip of sub-Saharan Africa, the first by a serving Japanese premier. South African Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma greeted the premier as he stepped off the Japan Airlines plane. Mori will visit South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya during the trip, which will include […]