A NEWLY-ESTABLISHED anti-rape organisation in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, has secured a R25000 donation to buy the anti-Aids drug, Nevirapine. Co-ordinator of the Greater Nelspruit Rape Intervention Project (Grip), Ina Georgala, said on Wednesday that people who are raped would be able to get the drug when being examined at the city’s Rob Ferreira Hospital. If taken […]
THE new African leg of the Vodacom Tour tees off with the R200000 Cock of the North tournament at Zambia’s Ndola Golf Club on the edge of the country’s Copperbelt on Thursday. A field of 81 professionals will be seeking the same springboard to success Welshman Ian Woosnam enjoyed after securing his maiden professional victory […]
KIERRAN MURRAY, Antananarivo | Wednesday 3.40pm UNITED Nations officials have enough relief supplies to help the victims of flooding in Madagascar but are battling to get them to villages most in need, they said on Wednesday. Although helicopters and small planes have been dropping supplies into towns around the country, moving them to scattered villages […]
FORMER Vlakplaas operative David Ras told the TRC that he had no choice but to kill a 15-year-old boy during a raid on a Botswana transit home for activists in 1988. Ras admitted that he killed the boy, but said that he ran the risk of being identified if he did not kill Phanduwana Tawana. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 7.30pm. DEPUTY Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad named nine people he said were flouting United Nations sanctions against the Angolan rebel group UNITA, primarily by smuggling illicit diamonds to Europe and South Africa to fund its war effort. Pahad told parliament on Wednesday the nine people, all identified by a […]
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OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lisbon | Tuesday 2.30pm. THE European Union expressed concern Tuesday over the illegal occupations of more than 200 white-owned Zimbabwean farms by veterans of the country’s independence war 20 years ago. “The European Union, Zimbabwe’s main development partner, is appealing to the government of the country to respect the law and re-establish public […]
TWO Xhosa princes have found the gravestone of their ancestor chief Sandile in a private pet cemetery on a farm in west England. They are hoping it will lead them to the famous chief’s skull, allegedly buried by a former army colonel with his pets, Die Burger newspaper reported. The Xhosa believe Sandile’s skull was […]
THE World Bank and IMF intend to monitor the impact of aid programmes on poverty reduction more closely and will strengthen cooperation with other donors and civil society to ensure programmes have the desired effect, senior officials said on Tuesday. “It sounds very simple but it represents a major change,” John Page of the Bank’s […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Tuesday 12.40pm THE South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority’s delay in allowing the rollout of the 1800 MHz cellphone spectrum for the existing cellphone operators is holding back the expansion of mobile phone service in the country, Vodacom group CEO Alan Knott-Craig said on Tuesday. Knott-Craig was speaking at a public hearing […]