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/ 12 December 2000
THREE men charged with detonating teargas in a Durban nightclub, causing a stampede in which 13 children died, have been found guilty of culpable homicide. Judge Jan Hugo found each of the men – connected to a rival nightclub – guilty on 13 counts of culpable homicide, 56 counts of common assault and one count […]
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/ 12 December 2000
ARIVIA.KOM, a new state-owned information technology (IT) company, would be launched early next year, Business Report said. The company is to be valued at R1bn in the first year and R2bn in the second year. Arivia.kom will be formed from the consolidated IT divisions of Ariel Technologies from arms manufacturer Denel, Datavia under transport group […]
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/ 12 December 2000
THE road death toll since the start of the summer holiday season has reached at least 170 after two horrific accidents in which 33 people died. Sixteen people died in a collision between two buses between Pretoria and Marble Hall, while 17 were killed in a collision between a truck and a minibus taxi outside […]
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/ 12 December 2000
AMNESTY International has urged authorities in Guinea to release leading opposition figure Alpha Conde, president of the Guinean People’s Rally, and a number of his supporters. The human rights organisation claimed most of a group of 47 supporters of Conde had been tortured to extract confessions and did not have a fair hearing. Conde, a […]
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/ 12 December 2000
STUDENTS in Angola will soon have to pay for their studies after a quarter of a century of free education, education ministry officials said. Ways of exempting the poorest pupils from the charges are being discussed. The new charges could mean even fewer people will get an education in this poverty-stricken country torn by civil […]
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/ 12 December 2000
FORMER Nigerian military ruler Ibrahim Babangida ordered the October 1986 killing of journalist Dele Giwa, a lawyer for his family told a rights panel. Giwa, the editor-in-chief of Newswatch magazine, died when a parcel bomb exploded as he opened it. Babangida seized power in a coup in 1985 and ran the country until 1993. The […]
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/ 12 December 2000
A GROUP of Northern Province farm workers who once worked for just R500 a month are now proud owners of a R2m naartjie farm. The provincial land affairs department handed the title deeds of Marobala Citrus Farm in Soekmekaar near Pietersburg to three farm workers’ trusts. The trusts, which comprise 137 farm workers, combined their […]
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/ 12 December 2000
WHITE South Africans are divided over a proposed declaration apologising for apartheid and the launch of a development and reconciliation fund which organisers say will enable whites to “take responsibility for the past and to redress the legacy of apartheid.” The “declaration of commitment by white South Africans” has drawn broad support, including from national […]
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/ 12 December 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday A MOTHER with a child on her back and two toddlers in her arms stood on the tracks in front of an oncoming train – and when the five-year-old child tried to scurry away, she pulled him back before the family was pulverised under the train’s wheels, Die Burger […]
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/ 12 December 2000
MORE than 400 people have fled their homes to escape deadly clashes between farmers and cattle herders in central Tanzania, where 29 people were killed over the weekend. At least 29 people have been killed since Friday, when fighting broke out between small-holding farmers and Maasai cattle herders in a dispute over grazing land for […]