Stefaans Brmmer and Jaspreet Kindra A pamphlet said to have originated in the African National Congress alliance calling for “one president, one term” has fuelled the latest round of accusations around supposed plots against President Thabo Mbeki. This has been the month in which tensions around the president, long simmering in the ANC and tripartite […]

Noreena Hertz, one of the world’s leading young thinkers whose new book on corporate power is sparking intense debate, argues that governments’ surrender to big business is the deadliest threat facing democracy today In the hullabaloo following the United States presidential election, with hanging and pregnant chads, and ballot forms that needed a PhD to […]

Paul Kirk A top detective from the Durban murder and robbery unit is being investigated on at least six counts of murder and attempted murder. This emerged after Detective Inspector Robin Singh appeared briefly in the Durban Magistrate’s Court last week on a murder charge. It is suspected the murder may be related to a […]

THE Portuguese government on Wednesday signed an agreement with the Mozambique government to disburse $18m to support flood victims in this southern African country, a year after devastating floods in southern and central Mozambique. Pledged at a donors’ conference last May, the money arrived almost a year late. The governors of the Manica, Sofala, Tete […]

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 […]