OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday DOCTORS said on Friday they had found an “abnormality” in the blood of 82-year-old Nelson Mandela, but that it presented no threat to his life. Mandela himself, frail, but beaming, said: “I feel good … I know that I’m not going to die tonight.” Doctors Michael Kew and Michael Plit […]

THE government of Namibia has declared a dead Rwandan refugee persona non grata (undesirable) and ordered his deportation more than a year after his burial. Wabalinda Deo Gahizi was among a group of 17 “undesirables” from neighbouring countries declared personae non gratae by Home Affairs Minister Jery Ekandjo, The Namibian newspaper reported. Gahizi won a […]

FIFTEEN people drowned when a packed minibus collided with another vehicle and plunged off a bridge into the Lagos lagoon, police and medical services said. The conductor of the bus, who was hanging on to the outside of the vehicle, swam to safety. Thousands of bright yellow minibuses ply the streets of Lagos as a […]

Evaristo Cumbane, Own Correspondent | Saturday SEVEN South African pathologists have arrived in Mozambique to help investigate the death of at least 80 prisoners in the northern province of Cabo Delgado earlier this week. Mystery deepened on Friday over the deaths amid reports that they suffocated, possibly in smoke linked to traditional fighters believed to […]

Former South African President Nelson Mandela has received the International Freedom Award from a museum at the site where US civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.

TANZANIAN President Benjamin Mkapa retained most of his key ministers except the finance minister in a new cabinet unveiled this week. Mkapa, whose Chama Cha Mapinduzi party won last month’s disputed polls, named former 1980s trade minister Basil Mramba the new Minister of Finance, in place of Daniel Yona, who took charge of poverty eradication. […]

SOUTH Africa has extended the terms of reference of its investigation into a deal between the state’s oil trading arm, the Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF), and traders High Beam International and Trafigura. Auditors would investigate any transaction between SFF and any company that participated in the sale of crude oil from SFF’s Ogies mine storage […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday DOCTORS said on Friday they had found an “abnormality” in the blood of 82-year-old Nelson Mandela, but that it presented no threat to his life. Mandela himself, frail, but beaming, said: “I feel good … I know that I’m not going to die tonight.” Doctors Michael Kew and Michael Plit […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee says it can find no evidence that white policemen with black-smeared faces and balaclavas took part in the massacre of 45 ANC supporters in Boipatong in 1992, according to a report in Afrikaans daily Beeld. This finding is made in the committee’s report […]