THE Archbishop of Ouagadougou, Jean-Marie Compaore, has asked 128 African refugees holed up in the city’s cathedral for three months to move out. The archbishop said in a letter that “the grounds for the hospitality offered no longer existed” and that their stay in the church had “become an additional obstacle to the resolution of […]
AFP, Pretoria | Wednesday COMMUNICATIONS Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri has applied for the right to appeal a high court order preventing her from awarding the country’s third cellular phone licence. The minister wanted the Constitutional Court, the highest court in the country, to set aside an interim order blocking her from naming the third licence holder, […]
A SOWETO high school teacher has shot his wife and mother-in-law dead and critically wounded his father-in-law before turning the gun on himself, apparently after discovering he was HIV-positive. A neighbour said Singer Motloung walked into his Meadowlands house, pulled out a gun and shot his wife, Mpho Motloung. Mrs Motloung’s mother, Winkie Molorane, was […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday SOUTH Africa faces a massive battle to exterminate exotic plants which are robbing the country of precious water resources and threatening its biological diversity, in spite of hacking out close to a quarter of a million hectares of invasive alien vegetation last year. According to the Working for Water […]
A 76-YEAR-old Middelburg father and his 32-year daughter have appeared in court on charges of incest, Mpumalanga police reported. They were remanded in custody. The couple were arrested after the child protection unit in Middelburg received information. They have allegedly been involved in an incestuous relationship since 1995, and the woman is said to be […]
THE human exodus from Sierra Leone is growing with an estimated 10 000 refugees, including rebels who may be fleeing advancing government troops, massed on a river trying to flee to Guinea, says the United Nations (UN). A total of 20 000 Sierra Leoneans are expected to enter Guinea this month, joining 14 000 of […]
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POLICE have arrested 13 veterans of Zimbabwe’s liberation war for blocking highway traffic with police barriers in the north-eastern Mashonaland province, authorities reported. According to the white farmers union, the CFU, the veterans started demonstrating and causing problems in some 20 farms in the region. “They were asking for a bigger share of land in […]
TWO Defence Force employees are being treated for shrapnel wounds after a grass fire caused an explosion at an ammunition dump at the Generaal de la Rey training area near Potchefstroom, the SANDF said. Various ammunition types, including heavy calibre ammunition, mortars and small ammunition types, which were stored in the magazine, exploded due to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT and REUTERS, Johannesburg | Tuesday BRITAIN has warned Liberian authorities that their detention of four television journalists – including South African Gugu Radebe – on spying charges has put the west African state on a collision course with the international community. Foreign Office minister Peter Hain called for the immediate release of the […]