NIGERIA’S state carrier has resumed direct flights to London after a six-year gap caused by the airlines debts. A Nigeria Airways official said the company would operate twice-weekly flights on the profitable Lagos-London route with a DC-10 aircraft leased from a French company. Nigeria Airways sought the help of British Airways to run the Lagos-London […]
US President Bill Clinton has informed Congress of his decision to extend for a further six months US economic sanctions slapped on Libya some 15 years ago. Clinton stated that despite Libya handing over for trial two suspects in the 1988 bombing of a Pan-Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, US concerns about the Libyan government’s […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday ELEVEN-year-old Aids activist Nkosi Johnson, who gripped the hearts of the world when he addressed last year’s International Aids Conference in Durban, is not expected to survive the weekend. Nkosi, who appealed to the government for access to anti-retroviral drugs and to South African citizens to accept Aids and HIV […]
THE death toll on South Africas roads since the summer holidays began on December 1 has reached 824 – and road safety campaign, Arrive Alive, expects traffic to peak on the country’s roads this weekend as inland holidaymakers return home to start the new working year on Monday. Arrive Alive said speeding, drunk driving, driver […]
THE Johannesburg Regional Court has granted R10_000 bail to a doctor accused of raping his daughter, so he could continue assisting patients on an Aids drug programme. The doctor, who allegedly raped his daughter a month before her 16th birthday, was in custody for two months. Defence attorney Errol Goss alleged the girl had laid […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Paris | Sunday AN international rescue operation is afoot in Cameroon to save fewer than ten black rhinos, the last survivors from herds of thousands wiped out by poachers across West Africa over the past two decades. “It is necessary, in fact, to act immediately, because this rhinoceros could disappear very soon,” said […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday TWO military hardware companies are planning to sue South African arms manufacturer Armscor for millions of dollars in separate cases – which, they allege, implicate several former and current top-ranking defence officials in high-level corruption. E-tv news reported that Quantam International Services Limited, with corporate offices in the British Virgin […]
NELSON Mandela’s former wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, is trying to patch up her relationship with South African President Thabo Mbeki, while claiming that he had “grievously maligned” her, the Sunday Times reports. The newspaper says that Madikizela-Mandela, the president of the women’s league of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), wrote a “sensational” letter last May […]
A UNITED States-based mini-submarine shipped to South Africa this week to film a shipwreck may be used to survey the rare coelacanth fish, once thought to be extinct. The JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology?s marine fishes curator, Phil Heemstra, said the institute hoped to conduct a survey of the 400-million-year old species of fish. Visuals […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Saturday ZIMBABWEAN police have arrested 97 members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in the south of the country following pre-election clashes which the MDC has described as state-sponsored violence. Party leader Morgan Tsvangirai confirmed the arrests, and said the MDC had sent reinforcements to beef up the 50-strong […]