TWO Kenyan Members of Parliament were shot and seriously wounded in the capital Nairobi after a traffic accident, police said on Monday. Sammy Leshore, the ruling party’s chief whip, and his deputy Mohammed Shidiye were attacked on Sunday night after their vehicle was in a collision with a matatu, or passenger minibus. Police said that […]

A FIRE at a refugee camp in northwestern Kenya has destroyed 500 huts and left at least 3000 refugees without shelter. The cause of the fire, which erupted on Thursday at a UN refugee camp at Kakuma, 600 kilometers northwest of the capital Nairobi, has not yet been established. One witness, speaking on condition of […]

LESOTHO’S King Letsie 111 marked the third day of his wedding celebrations on Sunday, this time at his birthplace south of Maseru. He married commoner Karabo Motsoeneng on Saturday, at a ceremony witnessed by thousands in Maseru. The celebrations on Sunday have a special traditional significance as Motsoeneng will be given a new name, according […]

MOZAMBIQUE’s government allegedly owns 20% of the Plasmex plastic pipe factory in Matola in Mozambique, where a bi-national police team made Africa’s largest ever mandrax bust last week. The raid by a joint South African/Mozambican police team netted over 300kg methaqualone power meant for the manufacture of at least 30-million mandrax tablets worth an estimated […]

FORMER Springbok rugby player Naas Botha is suing his son for more than R31000 for outstanding legal fees. Anna Jooste, the mother of 11-year-old Frans, says Botha’s lawyers have sent her a letter demanding payment within seven days, the Saturday Star reported. Last year Judge Kees van Dijkhorst order Frans, assisted by his mother, to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.40pm. IN a move that is likely to boost Stanbic’s standing with its shareholders, former Reserve Bank govenor Chris Stals has joined the bank’s board, while Transnet MD Saki Macozoma has been appointed its deputy chairman, effective from March 1. Making the announcement on Monday, Stanbic refused to say if […]

SHARES in I-Fusion tumbled at the start of dealings on Friday after the information technology company warned that its profits for the year to end-February will fall short of market expectations. The first trade in I-Fusion slashed 10% or 10 cents off the company’s stock price to 85 cents, a new record low. I-Fusion said […]

SOUTH AFRICA has withdrawn a visa issued to Sierra Leone’s former rebel leader Foday Sankoh and ordered him to leave the country following a protest from the Freetown government, South Africa’s embassy in Abidjan said on Monday. “I have just spoken to Pretoria and I have been told Sankoh’s visa has been withdrawn,” a South […]

A United States embassy official was beaten and his wife and sister-in-law raped by unknown assailants while holidaying on a farm near Ladybrand in the Free State at the weekend. Police on Monday were searching for two male suspects in the brutal attack on the two women, who are Lesotho citizens, and American Michael Breeding, […]

ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Monday 11.30am JOHNNY Jooste, suspected of killing his wife, two daughters and four relatives on a farm in the Koue Bokkeveld in the Western Cape on Sunday morning, has been arrested by police. Boland police spokesman Captain Anton de Kock told ZA*NOW that Jooste, 35, handed himself over to police […]