ELLIS MNYANDU, Johannesburg | Thursday METALS and minerals group Iscor Ltd reported a sharp drop in headline earnings after taking a knock from losses at its Saldanha Steel joint venture. The group, which is South Africa’s biggest steel maker, forecast higher profits in the current year to June 2001 amid expected gains from iron ore […]
THREE German skinheads on trial for murder have denied they intended to kill a Mozambican man despite admitting to the attack that led to his death, court officials said. Two 16-year-olds, Frank Mietbauer and Christian Richter, and 24-year-old Enrico Hiltricht went on trial this week for the racist murder of 39-year-old Alberto Adriano, who died […]
TAIWAN’S president, Chen Shui-bian, will cut short the final leg of his African tour following a typhoon which killed at least 11 people at home. Chen told a news conference before leaving the West African nation of Burkina Faso for nearby Chad that his visit there would be limited to the signing of a joint […]
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A CAPE Town policewoman has been shot and wounded while getting off a bus in Nyanga, one of the city’s townships where taxi operators have targeted buses in a bitter turf war, say police. The 24-year-old constable was hit in the leg and side, but police say it is not clear whether the shooting was […]
POLICE have used stun grenades to disperse an angry mob in Palm Springs, near Vereeniging, after the local municipality began seizing property from rates and services payment defaulters. Angry residents claimed the Vereeniging municipality was not providing them with services. The municipality’s tough stance was prompted by arrears of about R200m and the fact that […]
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 […]