OVER 1000 people have been arrested during the first week of the Western Cape leg of Operation Crackdown. Police say 750 people were arrested for serious offences, while 15 handguns and 25 stolen vehicles were recovered during the period April 1 to 6. Police have also seized 226kg of dagga, 133 Mandrax tablets, 15gm of […]
HACKERS have threatened to destroy a South African student web site unless it removes a game in which blobs of oil are squirted on Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe. A group called “Hackers for the People” made the threats against the Get-a-Life site (www.gAL.co.za) unless the “Squirt Diesel at Bob Mugabe” game was removed by Friday, […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Durban | Saturday 7.00pm. CATS captain Rassie Erasmus scored twice to lead his team to a 28-27 Super 12 victory over the Sharks in Durban on Saturday. Flyhalf Louis Koen sealed the match, which the Sharks led 17-15 at the break, with an extra time penalty. It was memorable win in a three […]
NIGERIA’S privatisation agency said on Thursday two oil companies, including South Africa’s Engen, have submitted bids for a controlling stake in oil products marketing company National Oil. Engen and a local firm, Petrochem International, have each tendered for 60% shares in National Oil. Engen has come in under Petrochem, offering 3.8 billion naira to Petrochem’s […]
JIM SLATER, Augusta | Sunday 2.30pm. SOUTH Africa’s Ernie Els is four shots off the pace as Fiji’s Vijay Singh withstood gusting winds and bitter cold to grab a three-stroke lead at the 64th Masters. Tiger Woods and Davis Love roared into contention from nine strokes off the pace. Steady winds of 30-50 km/h with […]
AIDS researchers said the deaths of five women in HIV/Aids drug trials were more likely the result of flaws in the handling of the trials than problems with the drugs themselves. The researchers were responding to the controversial decision by the government this week to suspend recruitment of new subjects for anti-retroviral drug trials after […]
COSATU is due to start of round of discussions with government on possible job losses associated with the introduction of the southern African free trade agreement in September, DTI director-general Alistair Ruiters said on Thursday. Trade ministers from the 14 Southern African Development Community (SADC) member countries reached agreement on the free trade protocol last […]
AT least 50 people are being held by police on Tanzania’s semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar and Pemba following weekend clashes between police and civilians. Most of the privately owned Tanzanian newspapers are reporting that hundreds of armed police have been deployed in Zanzibar streets and are beating civilians. Police are also claiming that four of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 6.00pm FINANCE department director-general Maria Ramos said the department expects a marginal decline in its 1999/2000 budget deficit after its revenue collection came in way above expectations during the fiscal year. Ramos said that the department collected R200,3-billion during the fiscal year. The figure exceeds the estimate Finance Minister Trevor […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has voiced his sorrow at the death on Thursday of Tunisia’s first president Habib Bourguiba and praised his efforts for the development of Africa. Bourguiba, Tunisia’s first president after independence from France in 1956, died after a long illness. He was 96. Africa “feels greatly indebted to the efforts of leaders such […]