THE Security Council issued a mild rebuke Tuesday to rebels who prevented UN peacekeepers from landing in the DRC, and said diplomacy should resolve the problem. The peacekeepers, a contingent of about 120 Moroccan soldiers, were still in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, but a UN officer there said he expected them to […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Thursday TRIBALISM, class privilege and xenophobia are the new face of racism in South Africa, delegates to Mpumalanga’s first summit on racial discrimination heard on Wednesday. Ehlanzeni district municipality mayor Jeri Ngomane warned that ethnic power groups in the country, including former Apartheid Bantustan leaders, were using tribalism to preserve their […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, United Nations | Thursday DESPITE UN sanctions, Angola’s UNITA rebels still smuggled at least $100m worth of diamonds out of the country last year – and will likely do so again this year, a UN report says. In an attempt to force UNITA to end the 25-year civil war in Angola, the Security […]
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 […]