A HIGHER-than-permitted amount of radioactive liquid material was pumped into a South African river last year, the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation has admitted. The liquid was released from the corporation’s Pelindaba facility, 30 kilometres west of the capital Pretoria, into the Crocodile River, the corporation said in a statement. The incident was the result […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 11.20am. CELLULAR service provider MTN will no longer sponsor the Charity Spectacular football tournamnt following a decision by Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates not play in the event. The two clubs — who landed a R120-million sponsorship deal with rival cellular company Vodacom last week — have contract clauses […]

A CHEWABLE African shrub used by Somali gunmen fighting US troops in Mogadishu is posing concerns for US East Coast federal officials who believe it may offer the latest cheap amphetamine high. Khat — also known as “qat” — is traditionally used as a mild stimulant in African and some Middle Eastern countries. But US […]

OIL giant Royal Dutch Shell said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell its Australian-based coal business to Anglo American for between $850-million and $900-million in cash. The final price is dependent on balance sheet adjustments on completion of the deal, Shell said in a statement, adding that it expects to finalise the agreement by […]

FORCES allied to Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila said on Wednesday they repulsed an attack on their positions by the Uganda-backed rebels, killing 49 of them. Last week, the United Nations observer mission in the DRC accused the rebels of violating a ceasefire signed by the warring parties last year. The UN Security […]

AN electronics, electrical engineering and information technology export council has been set up to promote international sales of South African electrotechnical goods and services. Membership has so far been extended to 38 companies.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 2.00pm. JEFFREY’S Bay will host the first R1-million surfing event in South Africa when the Billabong MSF Pro starts in the Eastern Cape town on June 29. The event, sanctioned by the Association of Surfing Professionals, forms part of the 13-event World Championship Tour that crowns the annual men’s […]

PRESIDENT Laurent Kabila’s government said it would not attend a meeting in Benin called by Africa’s envoy overseeing preparations for national dialogue in Democratic Republic of the Congo, as foreseen in a 1999 peace deal. Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Yerodia told state radio that rebels who took up arms in 1998 first had to “denounce the […]

THE last of some 250 South African and Botswana soldiers stationed in Lesotho for a year to help rebuild the country’s fractured army left the country on Tuesday. The military instructors — known as the Southern African Development Community Training Team in Lesotho — started withdrawing from Lesotho at the weekend. They were sent to […]

A FOOTBALL qualifier between Malawi and South Africa to be played in February has become embroiled in controversy surrounding the television screening rights to the game. Gilton Chiwaula, director of Malawi’s corrupt practices watchdog, the Anti-Corruption Bureau, said that the body launched an investigation into the awarding of the screening rights following a complaint filed […]