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 […]

CHRISTIAAN Barnard, the South African surgeon who transplanted the first human heart, has brought a Russian toddler to South Africa for emergency surgery as a favour to Soviet former president Mikhail Gorbachev, press reports said. Barnard was quoted as saying two-year-old Gleb Endokimov has a constriction in the main aorta as well as in the […]

Pretoria | Monday SOUTH Africa’s defence department was granted two weeks’ postponement on Monday of public hearings into alleged corruption in the government’s R50-billion arms procurement deal. Legal counsel for the department asked the presiding panel, chaired by Public Protector Selby Baqwa, to postpone the hearing due to its complicated nature. Baqwa granted the postponement […]