OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday AN internationally renowned dog training expert believes that up to 90% of South Africa’s police dogs will have to be destroyed because they are “fear biters” and “psychologically too sick” to be rehabilitated, Afrikaans daily Beeld reported. Beeld quoted Hans Schlegel, owner of the international K9 training school in Switzerland, […]

RWANDAN authorities will launch legal proceedings to try to get more than 40 orphans adopted in Italy during the 1994 genocide returned, Foreign Minister Andre Bumaya said this week. The adoptive families, from the north of Italy, do not want to give up the 41 children, the oldest of whom is now about 10. The […]

NIGERIA has set a target of not less than $500m non-oil exports to the US to be met by the end of 2001, a top government official said this week. Nigeria has taken all necessary steps to benefit from the African Growth and Opprtunity Act (AGOA) and other preferential trade agreements, Commerce Minister Mustafa Bello […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday FORMER liberation fighter Hein Grosskopf has revealed for the first time how he planned and carried out a 1987 car bomb attack on the Witwatersrand Command army base in Johannesburg. Currently living in the United Kingdom, Grosskopf is seeking amnesty for the explosion on July 30, 1987. Twenty-six people, mostly […]

THE international human rights group Amnesty International has condemned an Egyptian court for giving prison terms to 15 Muslim Brotherhood members, saying it was a blow to freedom of expression. “Amnesty International condemns the verdict, considers the 15 men to be prisoners of conscience and calls for their immediate and unconditional release,” the London-based human […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday MORE than 1700 people who used to rent property in District Six decades ago have successfully claimed their land back, 34 years after being removed from the inner city by one of apartheid’s most hated laws, the Group Areas Act. Settlement of the tenants’ claims means that at about […]

THE Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) is set to enter the legal wrangle over the awarding of the third cellular telephone service provider, the authority said this week. The announcement followed a decision by government to provide Icasa with the funding needed to participate in the legal battle. The court proceedings were instituted by […]

JUDGE Cecil Margo, who presided over two high profile plane crash inquiries, died on Sunday at his Johannesburg home after a long illness. Margo was 85 years old. Margo headed the investigation into the plane crash in October 1986 in which Mozambican president Samora Machel was killed. He also headed the inquiry into the South […]

A BAND of six gunmen sowed terror for half an hour in the Egyptian town of Al-Maragha in raids on two banks that led to the death of 12 people, including three policemen. Another 12 people were injured during the shooting spree, which broke out in the town’s market, where the two banks are located. […]

ILDA JACOBS, Washington | Wednesday AN American iced tea maker was so impressed with South Africa’s rooibos tea that he’s included it in a range of iced teas for the health conscious – and now he’s scouting for disadvantaged communities in South Africa who can provide him with the tea. Seth Goldman’s “Honest Tea” iced […]