OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Sunday 4.45pm ARMED war veterans invaded more white-owned farms in Zimbabwe at the weekend after President Robert Mugabe gave them the go-ahead, a farming leader said on Sunday. “It’s continuing to escalate,” Commercial Farmers’ Union president Tim Henwood said. More than 400 farms have been invaded in the past couple of […]
SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Friday 7.45pm THE University of the Witwatersrand on Friday fired Professor Werner Bezwoda for misrepresenting the results of a clinical trial for breast cancer treatment. The trials were conducted on more than 100 indigent black women without their formal consent. Bezwoda was also found guilty because he failed to obtain […]
SWAZI MPs have demanded to know why the State-owned Observer newspaper was closed down three weeks ago. The Observer was closed on February 17 by owners Tibiyo Taka Ngwane after a series of skirmishes with editorial staff. Tibiyo owns the paper on behalf of the Swazi nation, and are strong traditional loyalists. MP Mfomfo Nkambule, […]
SOUTH Africa has agreed to send firefighters to help combat forest fires which have been ravaging tracts of southern Ethiopia for the past 27 days. More than 50000 hectares have been totally destroyed by the fires, which are burning in the Borena and Bale areas, endangering rare wild animals as well as local flora. South […]
KENYAN police on Friday denied that 4,8 tons of hashish they seized in the port city of Mombasa in January has disappeared from a police store. “This not true. The seized drugs are safely in police hands and elaborate arrangements for their security have been put in place to ensure maximum security,” said a statement […]
SIXTEEN members and supporters of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) on Friday suspended their five-day hunger strike after the SA Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights intervened. The five, currently in Pollsmor Prison, went on hungerstrike on Monday after prison authorities failed some of their demands.
SUSAN NJANJI, Maputo | Sunday 6.10pm HEAVY rains fell in the centre and north of flood-stricken Mozambique on Sunday and are expected to intensify, weather experts said. “There will not be much rain in the south, but the centre and north are expected to see rains intensifying over the next 48 hours,” meteorologist Americo Leonardo […]
ALL eyes are expected to be glued to television on Saturday when the first draw in the country’s national lottery will name an instant millionaire. Goverment’s eyes are no execption as it is estimated that the lottery will raise R1-billion annually for the government to use for good causes such as housing, the arts and […]
THE head of UN peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of Congo said on Friday that DRC President Laurent Kabila has given the green light for the deployment of an observer force to monitor a ceasefire. Bernard Miyet emerged from a 90-minute meeting with Kabila saying the government now appears to understand the planned the role […]
STEFANO BLIN, London | Sunday 7.00pm. LESS than a minute into the fourth round match on Saturday night Prince Nasseem Hamed’s straight left caught Vuyani Bungu on the chin sending the 33-year sprawling onto the canvas. The knock out crowned Hamed’s 14th defence of the WBO featherweight crown with an electrifying performance. Hamed was always […]