A HOLIDAYMAKER was attacked by a three metre great white shark on East London’s Eastern Beach on Tuesday. David van Staden, 26, a South African working in New Zealand, who is on holiday in the Eastern Cape, was surfing with Natasha Bastenie when he was attacked but escaped with 10 stitches to his leg. Describing […]
SOUTH African shares opened firmer on Thursday, helped by higher bullion price and a firmer rand, dealers said. The benchmark all-share index was up 0.25% or 22.7 points to 8,948.4, helped by buying across the board, they said. “The gold price is a little bit better. Apparently a hedge is being unwound in the Australian […]
DARREN SCHUETTLER, Johannesburg | Thursday SOUTH Africa pledged on Wednesday to tighten mining safety laws as investigators probed deep inside a gold mine where 12 workers died in an underground explosion – the latest in a rash of mining disasters. “We are taking a very hard look at this situation,” Chief Inspector of Mines May […]
NAMIBIA and Mali on Monday became the first member states of the Organisation of African Union (OAU) to sign a protocol setting up a continental parliament, the OAU announced. The two countries’ ambassadors to the OAU, George Liswanso and Almaamoun Baba Lamine, signed the text at an official ceremony in Addis Ababa, where the OAU […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Thursday ZIMBABWES main opposition party lost a third legal battle Wednesday in its bid to have courts nullify the outcomes in 37 constituencies in last year’s parliamentary elections, a party representative said. The latest ruling is the third loss for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which has won three cases […]
THE family of a pregnant woman who died when she fell out of a speeding ambulance early Monday morning is considering taking legal action. Refiloe Masia, 28, of Greenvalley village in Acornhoek, Northern Province, was left alone in the back of the ambulance when the back doors flew open on the way to Tintsaolo Hospital […]
A SENIOR officer at the state-owned Botswana TV (BTV) resigned on Friday in protest at what he claimed is government’s gross interference in the running of the station. Briton Chris Bishop was in charge of the pivotal news and current affairs section. “I feel that it not only renders the running of TV news impractical, […]
MOZAMBICAN President Joaquim Chissano does not intend to run for a third term in office in general elections due in 2004, state media reported on Wednesday. Chissano announced that he would not seek re-election late on Tuesday in the southern industrial city of Matola. Mozambique’s constitution limits the president to serving two consecutive five-year terms. […]
THE Nigerian government has appointed a Anglo-American consortium as advisor to its state-run telecommunications firm NITEL, Nigeria’s privatisation agency said on Wednesday. “The National Council on Privatisation has approved of PricewaterhouseCoopers as privatisation adviser for the sale of 51% stake in NITEL,” representative for the Bureau of Public Enterprises Joseph Anichebe said. PricewaterhouseCoopers was one […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Accra | Thursday A HUNDRED and twenty people were killed and scores more injured in a stampede following crowd trouble at a football match in the Ghanaian capital Accra, local radio reported on Thursday. The trouble began late on Wednesday after a 2-1 victory by reigning league champions Hearts of Oak when supporters […]