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GOVERNMENT troops in Guinea Bissau have shot dead rebel General Ansumane Mane, who has been on the run since last week when a military revolt he staged in the capital was put down. Government and military sources said Mane had been killed in Quinhamel, north of the capital Bissau, in a gunfight which also left […]

MORE than 60 Nigerians have died when an explosion ripped through a fractured pipeline at a state-run loading depot outside Lagos, police and witnesses said. Hundreds of people were illegally siphoning off fuel from the pipeline, operated by the state-run oil Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), when the blast occurred, witnesses said. The incident is […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Monday SOUTH Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission failed to uncover the truth about black-on-black violence, the last apartheid president, FW de Klerk, has told a Nigerian newspaper. Nigeria last year set up a commission to investigate human rights abuses dating back to 1966. Chaired by former Supreme Court Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday TWO South African fishermen have told how they escaped drowning to spend nearly two hungry weeks trapped against a rugged cliff-face on Gough Island, holed up with penguins for shelter and praying for rescue. Frank Wagenstroom and Patrick Watson saw two of their shipmates drown after the dinghies from […]

NELSPRUIT’S chief magistrate, David Ngobeni, has been awarded R20000 damages against Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete after police searched his townhouse for stolen goods without a warrant. Ngobeni sued Tshwete and Nelspruit police Captain Annelise Mathyssen for R100. The Nelspruit Civil Court awarded Ngobeni R20000 for the wrongful search, plus between R8000 and R10000 […]

RELATIVES of former Malawian president Hastings Kamuzu Banda are accusing the government of secretly plotting to exhume and re-bury the late autocrat. The government announced last weekend it had set up a task force to look into the possibility of relocating Banda’s remains to a proper Heroes Acre. But Banda’s family and members of the […]

HEAVY gunbattles raged overnight on Sunday in the West Bank town of Bethlehem in what the Israeli army said was an apparent attempt by Palestinian gunmen to take over an Israeli enclave there. Palestinians said the fighting broke out after soldiers and Jewish settlers attacked Muslim worshippers. The confrontation lasted for several hours, and at […]

THE Constitutional Court has refused disgraced anti-apartheid activist and cleric Allan Boesak application to it for leave to appeal against the Supreme Court of Appeals’ ruling upholding his conviction and sentence for fraud and theft. Deputy Constitutional Court President, Judge Pius Langa said Boesak had not established that any of his rights to a fair […]

SAAB and BAE Systems, the Swedish and UK aerospace companies, have placed a US$14,7m skills and technology transfer contract with South Africa’s state-owned Denel Aviation, the two foreign companies said. The contract forms part of the defence industrial participation programme linked to South Africa’s order for 28 Gripen fighter aircraft produced jointly by Saab and […]