AN outspoken University of Venda lecturer who mobilised students against the university’s controversial vice-chancellor, Gessler Nkondo, has been charged with violating the university’s rules. Theology lecturer Thivhalaeli Nedohe faces five charges of instigating a class boycott, organising a protest march and running a meeting during working hours. He is expected to appear before the university’s […]

SOUTH African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni has become the latest high-profile victim of crime after being held at gunpoint and robbed of his cellphone at a Johannesburg garage. Mboweni, a security guard and three cashiers were held up by five gunmen at the Houghton garage before making off with items from six other customers […]

AFRICAN EYE NEWS SERVICE, Washington | Monday OUTSPOKEN Wits University professor and social commentator Patrick Bond has criticised President Thabo Mbeki’s economic policies at a seminar in the US, instead lobbying US activists to join a boycott on the World Bank. Bond told non-government organisations at the Washington Centre for Economic Justice and Policy Research […]

A SASOLBURG businessman will appear in court today after allegedly killing one of his employees and dragging his body through the Sasolburg Industrial area behind his bakkie. Free State police said members of the public called the police after seeing the bakkie dragging what appeared to be a body behind it, and had followed a […]

U.S. President Bill Clinton wrapped up a two-day state visit to Nigeria, preaching that democracy is good for business and promising American help on trade and in the fight against disease. Clinton told business leaders that the way to revitalise the battered economy was to rally round their democratically elected president and government. “Along with […]

IVORY Coast’s army-led government should follow the recommendations of the country’s electoral commission and push back the date of a planned presidential election to October because ”preparations were behind schedule”, a senior minister said. The National Electoral Commission (NEC) has asked the government to postpone the election to October 15 or 22 from September 17. […]

SOUTH A BOLIVIAN man arrested this week for drug smuggling has passed 20 of the “cocaine bullets” detected in his stomach, but police suspect the 31-year-old man has at least another 60 of the foreign objects in his stomach. The Bolivian apparently swallowed up to 80 condoms filled with cocaine before attempting to pass through […]

A 30-YEAR-old man has been sentenced to 229 years in prison by the Pretoria Regional Court after he pleaded guilty to 23 charges, including rape, attempted rape, indecent assault, armed robbery and the illegal possession of a firearm. Andre Gregory Mohammed admitted to attacking his victims at or near their homes during the day in […]

STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Friday RETIRED Judge Edwin King, who is heading a commission probing corruption in South African cricket, has doubts about whether disgraced cricket captain Hansie Cronje has come clean about his illicit involvement with bookmakers. King’s interim report was made public on Friday, two weeks after it was handed over to […]