OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday HUMAN rights organisations have expressed reservations about a proposed new anti-terrorism law which allows for terrorism suspects to be detained without trial for up to 14 days, calling it “reminiscent of apartheid-era security legislation.” But Justice Minister Penuell Maduna says he’d like to see the draft Anti-Terrorism Bill, which was […]
THE Umtata High Court granted a R2m forfeiture order to the Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) against a Lusikisiki prosecutor alleged involved in defrauding the Bank of Transkei of R4.6m. National Director of Public Prosecutions spokesperson Sipho Ngwena said that the AFU had the South African Police Service’s outstanding investigation to thank. In 1995 the sum […]
THE Nigerian Senate is to pick a new head of the upper house of parliament after voting to oust the country’s third-highest ranking official over charges of corruption. Senators were scheduled to pick a successor to Chuba Okadigbo, dismissed by 81 votes to 14 after he refused repeated pleas to resign over detailed allegations made […]
NAMIBIAN President Sam Nujoma and his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki held talks in Windhoek on Tuesday on detailed development and investment issues, including the Trans-Kalahari highway. “We discussed the nitty gritty of development and investment,” Namibian Trade Minister Hidipo Hamutenya told journalists after the talks. He said the meeting had been “businesslike, not politics […]
A MOB of enraged pupils stoned to death on Tuesday two men who seriously wounded a woman teacher and shot dead her lover at a rural high school in KwaZulu-Natal. Police said the two men arrived at the Isembela High School, near Inanda Dam, about 20 kilometres north of the Durban, with the teacher’s lover, […]
A BEAMING Archbishop Desmond Tutu returned home to Cape Town on Thursday, saying he planned to sleep and leave the public spotlight to younger leaders. He was in top form, going down on his knee to tie a photographer’s shoelace and hugging supporters who arrived at the airport to greet him. “It’s great to be […]
A RESEARCH team from the South African Museum in Cape Town has found fossilised remains of long-extinct reptiles, the most valuable specimen being a perfectly preserved skull of a little known carnivorous reptile known as Burnetia, near Murraysburg in the Karoo. The leader of the team, Dr Roger Smith, said the Burnetia skull was found […]
STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Friday A MAN police say is responsible for a campaign of terror against bus drivers and commuters in Cape Town’s ongoing transport war has been convicted on three murder charges in a trial shrouded in secrecy. In a highly unusual step, the Cape High Court held an in-camera trial for […]
BACTERIOLOGISTS at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute in Pretoria are baffled as to what is causing chunks of meat to glow and frighten rural villagers in Northern Province. Head of the bacteriology division Dr Maryke Henton said it was the first case of its kind that she had investigated, and that she believed it was something […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT AND REUTERS, Johannesburg | Saturday THE threat of a life ban from the game is hanging over the heads of South African cricketers Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams after both admitted to a disciplinary hearing that they accepted cash to under-perform in a one-day international match in India. The players made the expected […]