AFP, Harare | Friday FOUR white farmers have been arrested on charges of “inciting violence” for allegedly convincing their black labourers to evict squatters from several farms south of Harare, the government daily reported. “The police will not tolerate any unlawful actions or disruptions of public order, such as new farm occupations,” The Herald quoted […]

AN Egyptian worker stabbed his employer to death, then ate his flesh and drank his blood in an old Cairo mosque after he was fired from his job renovating the holy site, police said. The 28-year-old worker was enraged at his 56-year-old employer for firing him after only a day’s work at Al-Kordi mosque and […]

FIRE has forced the plane of Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema to make an emergency landing at Niamey airport before being engulfed in flames, aviation authorities here said. Eyadema was not onboard, nor was any other Togolese dignitary. Ten people, including eight crew, were onboard, and two people were slightly injured in the incident. The aircraft […]

A SWISS judge investigating the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars to Switzerland by the regime of the late Sani Abacha has questioned his son, Mohammed Abacha. Judge George Zecchin arrived in Nigeria and met Abacha after he was flown to Abuja from Lagos where he is currently detained on unrelated murder charges. A […]

IDA JACOBS, Washington | Saturday EASTERN Cape struggle hero Mkhuseli Jack has been honoured at the American premiere of a highly acclaimed documentary for his part in a peaceful boycott which the film makers say changed the course of South African history in the 20th century. Jack, who was specially flown to Washington DC for […]

SOUTH Africa has offered to hand over bank details of disgraced former cricket skipper Hansie Cronje to Delhi police investigating a match-fixing scandal, say officials. Shamilla Batohi, the chief prosecutor in the King Commission probing the Cronje affair, has also agreed to send details of telephone calls made by Cronje to bookies in India and […]

THE Pan Africanist Congress in the Western Cape is to hold a commemmoration service for Tempe military base killer Lieutenant Sibusiso Madubela, who last September shot dead eight white colleagues before he was killed. A PAC pamphlet advertising the event features a photograph of Madubela in uniform and concludes with the phrase: “One Oppressor, One […]

THE four accused in the Delmas incest case are to appear in court again today to face charges relating a 16-year relationship between a brother and sister. Robert Fedder, 40, and his 32-year old sister, Heibrecht Kamffer, were arrested in July for allegedly having had an incestuous relationship for the past 16 years. They have […]

THE RECENT grenade attack on the headquarters of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party was staged by an undercover police officer assigned to infiltrate the party, the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has alleged.”The evidence in our possession clearly points to the involvement of people in the highest offices of government in a […]

MASSIVE irregularities in Ghana’s voter register have appeared 10 weeks before general elections in the country, says electoral commissioner Kwado Afari Gyan. The lists include 1,5m people more than are eligible to votein the elections, scheduled for December 7. The commissioner said that while a population census held in Ghana earlier this year put the […]