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 […]

HOWARD BARRELL, Johannesburg | Friday DEEP concern is spreading through the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and its parliamentary caucus over the corner into which President Thabo Mbeki has led the party and the government over HIV/Aids. Most ruling party MPs and senior ANC members approached this week privately said the HIV/Aids fiasco raised serious […]

A NORTHERN Province man and his wife have appeared in court for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl in an attempt to “teach her to be a woman”. The man, 43, and his 42-year-old wife, who is accused of holding the teenager down during the rape, were not asked to plead in the Ritavi Magistrate’s Court […]

OWN CORRESPONDENTS, Pietermaritzburg | Sunday SOUTH African agriculture authorities have expressed fears that the current outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in KwaZulu Natal could be as disastrous as “mad cow” disease was for Britain a few years ago after 16 magisterial districts were declared as foot-and-mouth disease control areas. Authorities have asked for more police and […]

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 […]