NATIONAL water and forestry affairs minister, Ronnie Kasrils, may be called to testify before the Truth Commission’s amnesty committee in Northern Province. This is despite his being struck from the committee’s roll of amnesty applicants on Monday. On Tuesday, a landmine victim asked that Kasrils be subpoenaed in his capacity as a former senior member […]
Click on image for full-size view.
A NEW night time curfew began on Tuesday night in Ivory Coast after soldiers took to the streets for the first time since the December coup. Military ruler General Robert Guei imposed the 7pm. to 6am curfew after soldiers took to the streets of Abidjan and other towns in the country. Firing into the air […]
FIVE elderly women were killed and nine other people were injured in a fire at a retirement home in Port Elizabeth. The victims were all women aged between 88 and 98, police said. It was initially unclear if they burned to death or died from smoke inhalation. The injured were taken to hospital and treated […]
BELGIAN Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt will visit South Africa on Thursday and Friday for talks with President Thabo Mbeki on the situation in central Africa and the Great Lakes region. Verhofstadt would also call on former president Nelson Mandela to discuss the peace efforts in the Great Lakes region. He will be accompanied by Belgium’s […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 1.30pm THE 24000 or so members of the National Union of Mineworkers, at Amplats, the world’s largest platinum producer will be called on to begin striking next Thursday. NUM’s decision to seek a mandate has come after it failed to resolve issues with Amplats. Issues centered on the Basic Conditions […]
Former president Nelson Mandela, mediator in the peace process for Burundi, said on Tuesday he was "confident we will have a breakthrough" when talks resume this month in Arusha, Tanzania.
THE Gauteng health department says the situation at most provincial hospitals is back to normal, with many performing well. Spokeswoman Jo-Anne Collinge says a meeting between the regional leaders of NEHAWU and officials of the health department attempted to normalise the situation at the Helen Joseph Hospital, following weks of tension between hospital management and […]
Click on image for full-size view.
PHILIPPINE officials have suspended contacts with Muslim extremists holding 20 mostly foreign hostages, sources close to the talks said on Sunday. Provincial governor Abdusakur Tan ordered government emissaries to cease visiting the Abu Sayyaf jungle hideout on the southern Philippine island of Jolo, said the sources, who asked not to be named. The emissaries had […]