SOME of the nine Noordelikes Rugby Club members accused of murdering a Northern Province teenager may apply for bail in the Pietersburg Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. The bail application got off the ground on Wednesday, and bail was denied to the club’s match secretary Jaco Hartslief, who was the first to apply. The nine accused […]
ONE person was killed and two were wounded when government warplanes dropped bombs on civilians gathered at an airstrip in the Nuba Mountains region of central Sudan, missionaries said on Wednesday. The Antonov planes dropped 14 bombs at Kauda airstrip where the people had gathered on Monday to bid farewell to visiting representatives of Italian […]
NAMIBIA on Thursday welcomed a United Nations Security Council report exonerating the government on illegal mining activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The report, which was approved by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, on the illegal exploitation of natural resources and other forms of wealth in the DRC, was compiled by a panel […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Carson City, Nevada | Friday SEBASTIAN Stephanus Bridges, the South African national sentenced to death for killing his estranged wife’s lover in Nevada, is ready to die. Bridges won’t appeal, even though he has said he is not guilty and was treated unfairly in court. Governor Kenny Guinn said this week he would […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday FORMER Umkhonto we Sizwe commander and current foreign affairs official Robert McBride, former Vlakplaas police commander Eugene de Kock and rightwing leader Piet Skiet Rudolph have been given amnesty for various attacks committed during the apartheid era. McBride and ANC special operations senior commander Aboobaker Ismail were given amnesty for […]
AN Islamic court in northern Nigeria has sentenced a man to 80 lashes for falsely accusing his neighbour of sodomy, court officials said on Wednesday. Ibrahim Mamman Na-Wurno was found guilty on Tuesday by the Sharia court in Gusau for lying against Lawal Idris, a court official said. He said court judge Dahiru Mohammed Gusau […]
Barry Streek African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni has been summonsed by the Blaauwberg administration for the non-payment of R3?281,89 in rates and a further R84,78 in interest. The Blaauwberg administration, which is now part of the Cape Town Unicity, instructed its lawyers to issue the summons against Yengeni on February 19 this year […]
Barry Streek Crossfire The silence in political circles ranging from the ever-critical Democratic Alliance to the African National Congress, the government, the South African Communist Party and the apparently land-conscious Pan Africanist Congress about the legalistic judgement in the Land Claims Court rejecting the claim of the Richtersveld people to their land is revealing. It […]
Thebe Mabanga The process of trying to analyse the cause of the Ellis Park disaster and avert a possible future occurrence got under way this week with the release of the terms of reference of the commission of inquiry into the disaster. The commission’s chair, Gauteng Judge President Bernard Ngoepe, expressed appreciation for the eagerness […]
Console Tleane a Second Look The recent furore surrounding Max du Preez’s comments on radio about President Thabo Mbeki’s alleged infidelities, and later carried by a daily newspaper, begs a relook at the role of the press in South Africa. Such a retrospection becomes even more critical following a call by the Western Cape African […]