As floods continue to wreak havoc across Southern Africa, a look at the conservation of water resources may seem irrelevant, but delegates at an international water conference took a longer-term view Jubie Matlou in The Hague, The Netherlands A draft blueprint for fair and equal access to the Inkomati River by South Africa, Swaziland and […]
Nawaal Deane On Friday morning Robert Mugabe bashers will have the rare opportunity to squirt diesel in his face or throw darts at him. All they will have to do is tune into a new youth website, www.gal.co.za, where Mugabe’s face will be bouncing around on screen. The player who scores the most hits in […]
Paul Kirk Chris MacAdam, the head of KwaZulu- Natal’s investigating directorate (organised crime and public safety), is facing a multimillion-rand lawsuit from soldiers who claim he wrongly arrested them for a massacre that followed the assassination of Sifiso Nkabinde. Within hours of Nkabinde being gunned down in Richmond, a family of 11 African National Congress […]
THE Inkatha Freedom Party said on Friday night that it expects at least 5000 members to attend its annual marchin Johannesburg on Saturday to commemorate the Shell House shooting of 1994. Police said they will maintain tight security for the duration of the march. During a pre-election march in 1994 a clash erupted outside Shell […]
SOUTH African Sweliwile Hanns says he is confident of defending his title against competitors from 15 other countries in the world sheep-shearing championships in Bloemontein on Saturday. Hanns, who uses hand-shears and has been a professional shearer since 1982, came third in the world championships in New Zealand in 1997 and won the title in […]
THE West Indies have named an unchanged 13-man squad for the second and final test against Zimbabwe starting in Kingston, Jamaica, on Friday. On Monday, the Windies dragged themselves off the floor to score a remarkable 35-run victory in the inaugural test between the two sides. Zimbabwe, chasing a target of 99, were bowled out […]
SOUTH Africa’s Bradford Vaughan, a two-time winner on the Vodacom Tour, has a one shot lead after the first round of the Zambian Open at the Lusaka Golf Club. Vaughan, the elder of two brothers competing for the R500000 on offer this week, shot a magnificent six under-par 67, to lead by a stroke from […]
TELECOMS firm Ikwezi has pulled out of a consortium that won a bid to buy a majority stake in state-owned Uganda Telecommunications Limited (UTL), government officials said on Friday. They did not say why Ikwezi pulled out of the consortium and company officials were not immediately available for comment. But the head of Uganda’s privatisation […]
UGANDAN security officials have exhumed at least 40 bodies from two graves in a compound of the doomsday cult of which hundreds of members burnt to death last week. Security officials in the area found one grave in which they discovered 20 bodies, mainly women and children. They then found a second bigger grave in […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki’s office has denied that Mbeki has gone soft on Aids, insisting that he is committed to help curb the spread of the disease. But Mbeki’s spokesman Parks Mankahlana said the president will continue to seek views on the problem from any sector of society. The comment follows widespread criticism of Mbeki after […]