SA diamond giant De Beers said on Thursday it had suspended all activities in Angola due to a dispute with the Luanda government over its contracts and legal rights in the country. In a statement De Beers said it had “reluctantly” decided to discontinue operations because of a decree by the Angolan government to override […]
ANGOLAN rebels killed 17 people in two ambushes in the centre and south of the country, the Roman Catholic radio station Ecclesia reported on Wednesday. Ten passengers were shot dead when men said to be members of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) attacked a lorry at Cacuso in the northern […]
Glenda Daniels Boiling oil was an everyday feature in the 22 years of loyal service in kitchen worker’s Peter Mudogwa’s life at Wimpy Cresta. But he didn’t know it would one day kill him. Mudogwa, a member of the South African Commercial and Catering and Allied Workers’ Union (Saccawu), was burnt by boiling oil while […]
Anthony Holiday It needs no sage to see that, while the letter of parliamentary democracy in South Africa remains perilously intact, the spirit of that institution is already ailing. The symptoms of the disease are manifest, not only in the frictive partisanship which has infected the functioning of the parliamentary portfolio and oversight committees or […]
Fred Esbend Despite the fact that Port Elizabeth is on the brink of financial collapse with municipal service arrears standing at a staggering R600-million, the Nelson Mandela metropolitan municipality has upgraded its executive mayor’s flying status from economy to business class. Nceba Faku’s upgrade comes at a time when the metropolitan council, which incorporates Uitenhage […]
TANZANIA?S third modern large-scale gold mine has started commercial production ahead of its official commissioning in mid-July, a company official said on Friday. “Gold is now pouring out at the mine … all is going on well,” said Roy Meada, general manager of Kahama Mining Corporation Limited, owners of the mine in the remote village […]
Marianne Merten Cape Judge President John Hlope denied this week that the administration of justice had been brought to a standstill by an alleged gang leader. On Wednesday two high-profile People against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) trials were postponed in the Cape High Court when 2 000 supporters of alleged Cape Flats millionaire crime kingpin […]
Fiona Macleod Douw Grobler, head of the Kruger National Park’s game capture unit, has been fired for the unauthorised sale of animals from the park’s disease-free buffalo breeding project. An internal disciplinary committee found Grobler guilty of nine charges of misconduct, five of which constituted dismissable offences. Grobler, a vet with an international reputation for […]
Marianne Merten Several copies of unedited recordings made by international broadcasters the night Hard Livings gang lord Rashaad Staggie was killed in 1996 are now before a Cape High Court judge. State witness Mr A on Thursday testified how police seized videotapes on two occasions since November last year, including at least two copies of […]
David Macfarlane The future of a charitable organisation that provides therapy for the disabled hangs in the balance firstly because the local council mistakenly sold the land it occupies, and secondly because the buyer, Australian university Monash South Africa, appears unwilling to resolve the matter. The highveld branch of the South African Riding for the […]