TWO men convicted for the murder of a senior policeman in 1999 were on Thursday each sentenced to 15 years in jail by the Umtata High Court . Ncedile Dana, 43, and Morris Sophangisa, 33, from Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape, were found guilty of murdering Senior Superintendent Zola Sigotyana, who was gunned down on […]

TWO hundred and thirty two people were taken by surprise when they were arrested during a police operation dubbed “cul de sac” in the North West’s Mooiriver area in the early hours on Friday, police said. Superintendent Louis Jacobs said the operation, which began at midnight, was launched simultaneously in 27 cities and towns throughout […]

MICHAEL KAHN, Carson City, Nevada | Sunday SHOUTING ”I killed nobody” but refusing to ask for a stay that would have saved his life, South African Sebastian Bridges was executed by lethal injection on Saturday for the 1997 killing of his estranged wife’s boyfriend. Bridges, 37, was pronounced dead at 0418 GMT ON Sunday, moments […]

THE split within Zambia’s ruling party – over whether to support a possible third term for the president – has deepened as the party suspended eight of its lawmakers and police banned a rally by opponents of the issue. But opponents to President Frederick Chiluba’s re-election bid, currently barred by both the national and the […]

A CHARTER plane carrying more than 250 German tourists made an emergency landing at Kenya’s second city of Mombassa on Thursday after one of its engines sucked in a bird and caught fire, officials said. The fire broke out shortly after the Boeing 767 belonging to Germany’s LTU airline took off for Duesseldorf. Airport firefighters […]

TANZANIAN President Benjamin Mkapa said too many Tanzanians were being jailed for insufficient reason, resulting in overcrowded prisons, the press reported on Friday. ”I believe we jail so many people without justifiable reasons,” Mkapa was quoted in newspapers after meeting with senior officials on Thursday at a prison in Moshi, in northeastern Tanzania. Mkapa cited […]

PAUL KIRK, Durban | Friday ARMSCOR bosses are set to make a killing by buying arms from companies of which they are shareholders or directors. This week the Mail & Guardian obtained Armscor documents showing that Armscor chair Ron Haywood is a director of another company, Dynamic Cables, which is among the front-runners to supply […]

THE confirmed death toll from the collapse of a Nigerian mosque has risen to 12 after police recovered the bodies of seven children. It was not clear how many victims remained under the rubble, but neighbours said some 20 children had been in the building in Mushin, a shantytown in the commercial capital Lagos, when […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Saturday DURBAN Unicity Mayor Obed Mlaba has lashed out at the city’s ”coconuts”, saying they needed to be cracked once and for all for their colonial hang-ups and un-African attitudes, the Independent on Saturday newspaper reported. ”It’s high time black South Africans stopped being coconuts,” the newspaper quoted Mlaba as saying […]