INTERNATIONAL media watchdog Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF) is sending a delegation to Algeria next week to investigate the case of five missing journalists and launch a media awareness campaign to try to uncover their fate. RSF says it is practically certain that two were kidnapped by Islamic terrorists and three by the state between […]
SOUTH African pizza lovers who enjoy a generous topping of anchovy are in luck. South Africa’s anchovy population is at its highest recorded level and the government has decided to boost the total allowable catch for the 2001 season by 207% to 378_000 tonnes. The Environmental Affairs and Tourism Ministry said the rising anchovy population […]
POWER supply has been restored to two mines owned by Zambia’s Roan Antelope Mining Corporation (Ramcoz), paving the way for a resumption of copper production, the company’s receivers said. Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) had reduced electricity supply to Ramcoz’s Luansya and Baluba mines in October in a dispute over a $20m debt. The state-owned Zambia […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday POLICE have admitted that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela led a bizarre police raid on a Johannesburg pensioner’s home to search for goods she claimed had been stolen from her daughter. Madikizela-Mandela, former President Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife, raided 66-year-old Stella Kallmoka’s home in the Johannesburg suburb of Yeoville on Sunday night, accompanied by […]
JOHANNESBURG police have asked local authorities to drain the artificial Bruma Lake, where five bodies have been found in the past nine months, fearing a serial killer is on the loose. Two more bodies of middle-aged men were found this week in the lake, east of the city centre, which is surrounded by a shopping […]
THE national road death toll since the summer holidays began on December 1 had reached at least 851 by noon on Sunday and was expected to climb with the big rush home underway. The road safety campaign, Arrive Alive, said it expected traffic volumes to peak in the late afternoon on all the country’s major […]
Swazilands only airline has suspended all morning flights to South Africa following an unexpected drop in the number of business travellers over the festive season. Airlink Swaziland general manager President Dhlamini said many flights were running almost empty and the airline rationalised its services. Airlink Swaziland suspended all flights to Tanzania last year after the […]
FIVE people, including two opposition members of parliament, have been killed in a weekend road accident in central Gambia, the state media reported. Twelve others were injured. All were believed to have been aboard a minibus which rolled several times after a tyre burst on a road inland from Banjul. The two MPs, Bouba Samoura […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday AFRICAN National Congress Women’s League president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Monday broke her silence on her sensational letter to Deputy President Jacob Zuma, saying she had used the appropriate ANC internal channels to air her grievances. She was reacting to statements by unnamed ANC insiders quoted in The Citizen newspaper that […]
EXTERMINATORS who killed hundreds of rats being kept in a rented Cape Town house have found a three-month-old human foetus in a cupboard while removing the rat carcasses. The woman who kept them, Gwynneth Quick, 39, who referred to the rats as “my babies”, was hospitalised for psychiatric observation but later released. She worked as […]