PHILIP PANK & MANOAH ESIPISU, Harare | Tuesday 1.30pm. TWO supporters of Zimbabwe’s political opposition have been killed by followers of President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party, opposition leaders said on Tuesday. Nomore Sibanda, a spokesman for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said one man was beaten to death in Shamva, about 80km northeast […]
PHILLIPE COSTE, Paris | Friday 6.00pm. TOP French specialists voiced shock on Friday at President Thabo Mbeki’s defence of alternative medical approaches to Aids, and dismissed as a “provocateur” the US researcher Mbeki has cited in support of his stance. Mbeki has made an impassioned defence of California biologist Peter Duesberg, who theorises that human […]
LAW enforcement officials warn that they will be out in force on Monday, as holiday makers return home following the Easter holidays. Over 1000 road blocks and speed checkpoints have been set up along major routes. Arrive Alive has appealed to motorists not to travel between 3pm and midnight and between 1am to 6am, as […]
EMBATTLED Inkatha Freedom Party MPL Phillip Powell has left the country mid-way through an investigation into his role in an illegal arms deals conducted by the National Directorate of Public Prosecutions. Meanwhile, the office of National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka this week said Powell has not been granted indemnity from possible future prosecution […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 7.30pm. SAFETY and Security Minister Steve Tshwete has blamed illegal immigrants from China, Nigeria, Pakistan and Zambia for a crime wave in South Africa. “The Chinese are stripping our coasts naked of perlemoen and are involved in trafficking women and children for the sex trade,” he told journalists. “In most […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Bloemfontein | Sunday 7.00pm THOSE of us who returned to the Free State Stadium 24 hours after the tedium of the World Cup qualifier between South Africa and Lesotho hoping for something a little more lively were sadly disappointed. A Castle Premiership fixture between Bloemfontein Celtic and Jomo Cosmos was rich in promise […]
TOP SA umpire Cyril Mitchley has revealed that he was approaced with an offer of $50000 (R325000) to influence the outcome of a test match in 1994. The Star reports that Mitchley said the offer came during the match between Pakistan and Australia in Lahore. It was the final Test match in 1994. “I was […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Abuja | Monday 7.30pm. HEADS of state and government representatives from 48 African countries arrived in Nigeria to prepare the first ever African summit on tackling the scourge of malaria. The presidents of Botswana, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Namibia, Sao Tome and Sierra Leone had arrived by mid-afternoon with heads of state of […]
TWO Danish tourists have been shot and killed on the Pilansberg-Sun City road near Rustenburg. North West police spokesman Captain Garwin Geldenhuys said the two men, aged 33 and 37 years, stopped their car on the side of the road at around 7.30pm on Wednesday night. Shots were fired at them from a light delivery […]
CHINESE President Jiang Zemin lands in Pretoria today for trade talks on Tuesday with President Thabo Mbeki. The two will discuss the progress of the China-Africa Co-operation Forum, plan a ministerial conference for October in Beijing, and discuss how China can contribute to pan-African trade and development. The Democratic Party has attacked Pretoria’s alignment with […]