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 […]
THE Crisis Committee set up after 43 soccer fans were killed in a stampede at Johannesburg’s Ellis Park last week has paid more than R500_000 to families of victims. The South African Football Association (Safa) and Premier Soccer League, who established the interim body, said in a joint statement late on Wednesday night that a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bujumbura | Thursday JUNIOR officers who occupied the state radio station in Burundi and claimed to have overthrown the government surrendered on Thursday, the defence minister announced. A statement from Defence Minister Cyrile Ndayirkiye was read on state radio on Thursday morning and regular programming resumed, indicating that the soldiers who took over […]
THE SA government and pharmaceutical companies have reached agreement over the issue of pricing of Aids drugs, the Swiss Interpharma association was reported as saying in Basle, Switzerland on Wednesday. Interpharma chief executive Thomas Cueni said the agreement would also mean the withdrawal by companies of legal action in Pretoria against government legislation, The Star […]