SOUTH Africans are becoming more optimistic about government’s ability to fight crime and improve the economy, according to the results of a survey released on Tuesday. The independent Human Sciences Research Council said a survey conducted in November last year showed most six out of 10 people believe the government has some degree of control […]
THE government imposed a curfew on two neighbouring communities in southwest Nigeria where fighting since Friday has claimed more than 30 lives and tension reigns. Residents said the governor of Osun state, Bisi Akande, announced on state-run radio that a curfew was being imposed in the communities of Ife and Modakeke. It will run from […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.00pm ALTHOUGH the Proteas will have to do without Lance Klusener’s bowling in the first one day international on Thursday, there’s still the fearsome South African pace attack for India to contend with. “It’s unlikely at this stage that he will bowl. The physio has asked us to take it […]
TANZANIA, one of the world’s poorest countries, is sending 1000 tonnes of maize to flood-stricken Mozambique. Foreign Affairs spokesman Patrick Chokala said on Wednesday that in addition to the maize, the Tanzania-Mozambique Friendship Association would embark on a national fund-raising campaign for victims of the floods. “Under the circumstances, we are giving what little we […]
TROPICAL cyclone Gloria and Eline have killed 130 in Madagascar, and left thousands homeless. Gloria, which hit Madagascar last weekend, killed at least 66 while Eline killed 64 mid-February, authorities said. The UN has warned that Madagascar could be next in line for international aid on the scale being received by Mozambique. The thousands left […]
WALLABY captain John Eales will be out of rugby for up to six weeks after tests on Monday confirmed he has suffered a fractured eye socket. Eales was injured in a head clash with Queensland Reds teammate Sean Hardman in last Saturday’s 43-25 Super 12 loss to Wellington in New Zealand. “There is a fracture […]
THREE Dutch tourists have been murdered by “armed bandits” in a remote desert region of northern Mali. Security forces found the bodies and arrested four people in a search of the area known as the Tessalit circle, some 2000km north of the capital. While such attacks on vehicles are not uncommon, no foreigners have been […]
THE former head of apartheid’s security police, General Johan Coetzee, on Tuesday said he had no prior knowledge of a bloody cross-border raid by police into neighbouring Lesotho in 1985. Coetzee told a TRC hearing in Pretoria that at the time of the raid he was on holiday. “I did not know about the raid […]
CHINA will invest $200-million in a Zambian mine as part of Beijing’s effort to ensure a stable supply of raw materials, an official said on Wednesday. Officials said the rehabilitation of the Chambishi copper mine is at an advanced stage and production is expected to resume later this year. The Chinese group bought an 85% […]
NICOLE MORDANT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.00pm DIAMOND giant De Beers on Wednesday posted a 40% increase in annual rand earnings per share and predicted that it will at least match its 1999 gem sales in the current year. The company made no comment in its earnings statement on the future of its stake in mining […]