THE SA government is to open high profile public hearings on Monday into a controversial multi-billion dollar arms deal. It will be presided over by a panel made up of three agencies led by the Public Protector, Selby Baqwa. The agencies are the Public Protector, the Auditor General and the National Directorate for Public Prosecutions. […]
DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Sunday THE Sunday Times is leading with a story on a new book by Pick ‘n Pay tycoon Raymond Ackerman — which blames Sam Ramsamy of the National Olympic Committee of South Africa (Nocsa) for losing South Africa’s bid to hold the Olympics in Cape Town in 2004. The paper’s […]
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LOCAL press reports on Friday said a massive oil spill has occurred on Ikevemor Island in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta, threatening the livelihood of about 60 villages in the area. A representative for the residents of the affected villages, Jacob Oyanimigha, said the spill resulted from a ruptured pipeline maintenance facility owned by Shell Petroleum […]
TWO officials from Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have been abducted, apparently by pro-government war veterans, MDC spokesman Learnmore Jongwe said on Sunday. MDC parliamentarian Abedinico Bhebhe was kidnapped on Saturday from a petrol station in Nkayi, 260km southwest of Harare, Jongwe said. Joel Sithole, the MDC candidate for council elections in the […]
ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe has cancelled his trip to Jakarta for the G-15 summit of developing nations after one of his top ministers died in a car crash, the state-run Sunday Mail reported. Mugabe was due to leave on Sunday for the May 30-31 summit in Indonesia. He cancelled the trip after defense minister Moven […]
A UNITED States coastguard vessel was standing by a crippled car-carrier in heavy weather off South Africa’s southeast coast Saturday, a spokesman said. Terry Taylor, spokesman for the port authority in Port Elizabeth, said the USS Sherman, which happened to be in the area, responded to a South African appeal to aid the Panamanian-registered Modern […]
ALMOST a third of women in Mpumalanga have at some point been physically abused by their partners, says a study published in the latest issue of the South African Medical Journal. The study, by the Medical Research Council’s gender and health group, also found that just over a quarter of women in the Eastern Cape […]
A COURT in the northwestern Rwandan town of Gisenyi has sentenced 10 people to death and 23 to life imprisonment after convicting them of genocide and crimes against humanity, state radio reported on Saturday. Among those sentenced to death on Friday was Wellars Banzi, a former member of parliament and chairman in Gisenyi of the […]
US president George W. Bush will host South African President Thabo Mbeki next month to discuss bilateral relations and the situation in Africa, the White House has announced. “The two leaders will discuss the scope and future of the bilateral relationship between the United States and South Africa,” White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said […]