HUGO YOUNG, Pretoria | Tuesday SENIOR army officers in Zimbabwe have secretly warned the South African government that they may launch a coup against Robert Mugabe if the growing political and economic crisis results in riots. Pretoria has strongly advised against any move to overthrow the Zimbabwean president by force but has been made aware […]

ONE hundred amputees from the south-western Somali region of Baidoa, who are victims of the civil strife there, are to receive artificial limbs from the Rotary Clubs of Nairobi and Bombay and the UN Development Programme (UNDP). Somalia UNDP bureau senior deputy representative Andrea Tamagnini told journalists in Nairobi on Monday that the move was […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday Vandals have bludgeoned to death nine endangered jackass penguins, two pelicans and two gannets at an aquarium in the coastal city of East London, police said on Tuesday. “They appear to have been bludgeoned to death with a heavy instrument,” police Captain Sibongile Ndyoko said. “The birds weren’t killed for meat, because […]

NELSPRUIT will host the continent’s first African Peace Through Tourism Conference in March 2002 as part of a pan-African initiative to use the economic benefits of tourism to bring regional stability. The conference, designed to foster wider institutional support community tourism projects, is expected to attract an estimated 600 international delegates and is underwritten by […]

A NORTHERN Province nurse who left a pregnant woman alone in the back of an ambulance and was unaware when she fell out and died, was officially dismissed on Friday after being found guilty of gross dereliction of duty. Stella Kubhayi (25), a nurse at Tintsaolo Hospital in Acornhoek, has five days to appeal against […]

Johannesburg | Monday ZIMBABWES opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have called on Zimbabweans living in South Africa to help the party end President Robert Mugabe’s 20-year rule. MDC deputy president Gibson Sibanda said hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans had fled to South Africa because of poverty, hunger and unemployment caused by the ruling Zimbabwe […]

THE number of Malawians being deported from South Africa has become embarrassing, said spokesman for Malawi’s immigration office, Hudson Makhwala. He said at least 87 Malawians were deported from South Africa in the past two weeks. “This is very embarrassing for the nation and Malawians need to be educated before they visit other countries,” Mankhwala […]

MUTINOUS soldiers in the Central African Republic attacked President Ange-Felix Patasse’s residence early Monday in an assault which left “many dead”, the president’s spokesman said. “The president is safe and sound,” said Patasse’s spokesman, Prosper Ndouba, adding that the battle caused the deaths of “seven members of the presidential security and many deaths among the […]

CENTRAL African Republic President Ange-Felix Patasse late on Monday declared a 6pm to 6am curfew in his country following a foiled coup attempt in which an unknown number of people were killed. Patasse’s representative Prosper Ndouba said that presidential guards in Bangui quelled a coup attempt on Monday, leaving “many dead” following an attack by […]

Cape Town | Tuesday A LEADING South African church group, His People’s Centre, has banned disgraced cleric Allan Boesak from preaching to its congregation for refusing to apologise to the community after his release from prison last week. Boesak, a former head of the World Alliance of Churches and leader of the African National Congress […]