FORMER Vlakplaas operative David Ras told the TRC that he had no choice but to kill a 15-year-old boy during a raid on a Botswana transit home for activists in 1988. Ras admitted that he killed the boy, but said that he ran the risk of being identified if he did not kill Phanduwana Tawana. […]
KIERRAN MURRAY, Antananarivo | Wednesday 3.40pm UNITED Nations officials have enough relief supplies to help the victims of flooding in Madagascar but are battling to get them to villages most in need, they said on Wednesday. Although helicopters and small planes have been dropping supplies into towns around the country, moving them to scattered villages […]
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OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Tuesday 6.15pm. SOUTHERN African leaders called on Tuesday for the international community to cancel Mozambique’s foreign debts to help it recover from devastating floods and cyclones. A special summit meeting of the Southern African Development Community “appealed to the international community to cancel all foreign debts owed by Mozambique to enable […]
FORMER African National Congress MP Steven Mbuyisa, 33, was on Monday jailed for 18 months for stealing a cellphone to give to his wife as a Valentine’s Day gift. Mbuyisa appeared before Magistrate Lucas Scheepers, who sentenced him to three years, half of which was conditionally suspended, after finding him guilty of theft. Mbuyisa stole […]
THE seven men accused of murdering United Democratic Movement secretary-general Sifiso Nkabinde pleaded not guilty to six charges in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday. They face a charge of murder, a charge of attempted murder of Siphiwe Dlamini who was Nkabinde’s bodyguard, the attempted murder of Dlamini’s mother, Lindeni, and the illegal possession of […]
TRANSPORT Minister Dullah has lashed out at a decision by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee to move the hearing of eight policemen who conspired to murder him in 1989. Omar said the moving of the venue from the Early Learning Centre in Athlone to the TRC’s offices in town is a gross insult […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Tuesday 12.40pm THE South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority’s delay in allowing the rollout of the 1800 MHz cellphone spectrum for the existing cellphone operators is holding back the expansion of mobile phone service in the country, Vodacom group CEO Alan Knott-Craig said on Tuesday. Knott-Craig was speaking at a public hearing […]
THE World Bank and IMF intend to monitor the impact of aid programmes on poverty reduction more closely and will strengthen cooperation with other donors and civil society to ensure programmes have the desired effect, senior officials said on Tuesday. “It sounds very simple but it represents a major change,” John Page of the Bank’s […]
TWO Xhosa princes have found the gravestone of their ancestor chief Sandile in a private pet cemetery on a farm in west England. They are hoping it will lead them to the famous chief’s skull, allegedly buried by a former army colonel with his pets, Die Burger newspaper reported. The Xhosa believe Sandile’s skull was […]