THE State’s case against former anti-apartheid cleric Allan Boesak, involving possession and use of a cellphone in prison may be in jeopardy after the gangster who allegedly gave him the phone was shot dead. Police believe the murder was gang-related. Donovan Isaacs was released on parole from Malmesbury prison in February. He was serving time […]
DE Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer, and luxury group LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) said on Thursday that the European Commission (EC) has opened a Phase II investigation into their proposal, originally announced on Jan. 16, 2001, to establish an independently managed company to retail diamond jewellery under the De Beers name, the […]
A 52-year-old man was granted R5_000 bail by the Port Nolloth Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday after allegedly being caught speeding at nearly 240km/h on the N7 highway in the Northern Cape over the weekend. The case against Lucas David Hipondoka was postponed to May 15, the Northern Cape department of transport, roads and public works […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Thursday A LARGE contingent of police accompanied by the Scorpions investigation unit raided five illegal gambling establishments in Vryheid, Pietermaritzburg and Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday. Police representative Captain Vishnu Naidoo said about 250 one-arm bandits were confiscated and eight managers, owners and staff members were arrested. Naidoo said investigations and […]
ONE person died and a dozen others were rescued when a mosque collapsed on Wednesday in a slum in Lagos, but scores of other worshippers were believed to still be under the rubble, a rescue official said. One dead body was pulled from the debris, and another person rescued was seriously injured, the leader of […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki will make a landmark visit to Lesotho on Thursday – and pay a fine of one cow – as the tiny enclave in southeastern South Africa heads towards parliamentary elections. The cow will go to King Letsie III as a fine for missing his wedding in 1999, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. […]
A MAN in Kano, northern Nigeria has killed his lover for infecting him with the HI virus and after she confessed she had slept with 95 men, witnesses said on Tuesday. They said the man, a tailor, stabbed his lover with a pair of scissors after inviting her to his shop in the city at […]
A US federal judge in Indianapolis, Indiana, plans to decide on Friday whether to allow a live webcast of the execution of condemned Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Judge John Tinder’s decision will be posted on the court’s website court officials said on Wednesday. McVeigh, 32, is scheduled to die by lethal injection May 16 […]
THE JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) followed international bourses higher across the board on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve surprised global markets with a 50-basis-point interest rate cut. Information technology counters led the upsurge, adding more than 7.4% at the opening, as London-listed South African networking services firm Dimension Data leaped R2.90, or […]
GRIFFIN SHEA, Harare | Thursday ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe vowed on Wednesday to continue his controversial land reform scheme, and told former colonial master Britain to stop meddling in the nation’s affairs, in a speech marking Zimbabwe’s 21st anniversary. “We cannot be seen, as Zimbabwean sons of the soil, to be begging a former colonial […]