THREE toddlers were burnt to death when their thatched house caught alight at London farm in the central Zimbabwean city of Gweru on Friday. Police said nine month-old twins Lovemore and Loveness Matemera and their two-year-old brother Melody died when they accidentally set their parents’ hut alight. Police said the children’s mother had gone to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bujumbura | Monday THREE more civilians have been executed in Burundi to the north of the capital, Bujumbura, witnesses said on Sunday. It follows the execution of two civilians by Hutu rebels in the north of the country late on Friday. In the latest incident, one of the civilians killed was a local […]
SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki and veterans from the country’s anti-apartheid movement paid their last respects to June Mlangeni, a key figure in the country’s long fight against racism, on Saturday. Over 2 000 people turned out for the funeral in the Soweto township, to honour Mlangeni, who died on May 24 at the age […]
FORTY-four stolen artworks have been returned to Nigeria from a gallery in Zurich, Switzerland, under a drive by the new government to recover missing pieces. The artworks were flown into Nigeria on May 30 by the Galerie Walu of Zurich and handed over to officials of Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments. The haul […]
MOZAMBICAN President Joaquim Chissano says he is ready to reopen stalled negotiations with Renamo, the country’s leading opposition party. Chissano was quoted in the daily Noticias responding to comments made by Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama that he is keen to start talks with government over the disputed 1999 elections after the last round of negotiations […]
HUGH NEVILL, Johannesburg | Sunday AIDS has killed some 15 million people in Africa over the past 20 years, and more than 25 million Africans are HIV-positive, according to the UN agency UNAIDS. APOLOGIES Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, this page will not be properly updated on Monday 4 June. Normal service will be resumed […]
A MAN charged with Swaziland’s worst serial killing spree has led police to four more bodies, a police representative said on Thursday. Assistant Superintendent Leckina Magagula said David Thabo Simelane – charged with 34 counts of murder of women and children – took police to Marula Ranch Farm outside the town of Manzini, about 40km […]
A DAYS-old baby boy has died in hospital after being viciously bitten by an unidentified animal that managed to get into the incubator ward where he was being kept following a premature birth, a newspaper reported Saturday. Al-Wafd said the incident took place on Friday at a public hospital in Itai al-Barud, in northern Egypt. […]
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PROSECUTORS in the case of five men accused of the 1996 murder of Hard Livings Gang boss Rashaad Staggie, received a major blow on Thursday when Cape High Court Judge John Foxcroft ruled that he would not view video footage taken the night that Staggie was killed. The case against senior members of Pagad is […]