Bandits in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have freed 25 Zambian villagers they seized last weekend, but the fate of one is still unknown. Home Affairs Minister Peter Machungwa said the 25 were freed and handed over to Zambian authorities on Tuesday night. ”They all appear to be in good health and are back […]
SOUTH African couple Callie and Monique Strydom, held captive for four months by Moslem rebels in the Philippines, have arrived home to an emotional welcome. The Strydoms landed at the Waterkloof airbase outside Pretoria after a 14-hour flight aboard a chartered SA Airways jet with a high-level South African government delegation led by Foreign Affairs […]
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TELLUMAT, a South African communications and defence electronics company, has been awarded a contract by Thomson-CSF NCS France to provide integrated identification systems for the South African Navy. The integrated identification friend or foe (IFF) systems will be fitted to four MEKO A-200 patrol corvettes that the navy is to acquire as part of the […]
THREE Northern Province teenagers have appeared in court in connection with taking turns to rape one of their girlfriends. Jabu Javas Mahlangu and Sam Masemola, both 18, as well as a 17-year-old minor, are from Rondtebos village in Nebo and were arrested they allegedly lured the minor’s girlfriend into mountains and raped her. Police said […]
THE government is in negotiations with the World Bank about taking an initial loan of about US$200m to help revamp public hospitals, a local newspaper has reported. In all, the proposed hospital revitalisation programme will cost $US270m, with the government providing the other US$70m. The World Bank will not only provide financial backing but will […]
AFRICAN EYE NEWS SERVICE, Lydenburg | Wednesday A MAN who waged a single-handed war of terror on Mpumalanga farmers last month, saying he wanted to be “president of his own kingdom”, has been declared a Presidential mental patient. Jan Jack Mnisi, a dreadlocked Rastafarian, was declared a Presidential patient in the Lydenburg Magistrate’s Court and […]
AFRICAN EYE NEWS SERVICE, Mbabane | Wednesday SWAZILAND has returned to work after the kingdom’s most sacred annual holiday, the Umhlanga Reed Dance, with the news that absolute monarch King Mswati III would not be taking an eighth wife this year. The reed dance, an annual fertility pageant at which the king is expected to […]