THE former head of apartheid’s security police, General Johan Coetzee, on Tuesday said he had no prior knowledge of a bloody cross-border raid by police into neighbouring Lesotho in 1985. Coetzee told a TRC hearing in Pretoria that at the time of the raid he was on holiday. “I did not know about the raid […]
CHINA will invest $200-million in a Zambian mine as part of Beijing’s effort to ensure a stable supply of raw materials, an official said on Wednesday. Officials said the rehabilitation of the Chambishi copper mine is at an advanced stage and production is expected to resume later this year. The Chinese group bought an 85% […]
NICOLE MORDANT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.00pm DIAMOND giant De Beers on Wednesday posted a 40% increase in annual rand earnings per share and predicted that it will at least match its 1999 gem sales in the current year. The company made no comment in its earnings statement on the future of its stake in mining […]
THE Cape Town Regional Court on Tuesday morning turned down an application to withdraw the R500000 bail granted last November to Italian millionaire Vito Palazzolo. The Directorate for Public Prosecutions launched an application to have Palazzolo’s bail annulled on grounds that he has become a ”flight risk”. Palazzolo was last week given seven days by […]
Click on image for full-size view.
ALAIN Amogou gave a fortunate Sundowns a controversial win when he scored for the visitors in their PSL match against Mother City at the Greenpoint Stadium in Cape Town. Amogou scored after a mix-up when a City player was brought down in what looked like a sure penalty challenge. Referee Jonas Nhlapo though otherwise and […]
KENYAN Benson Mutisya Mbithi won the rain-soaked Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday in an unofficial time of 2 hrs, 11min 55sec. Mbithi, 22, finished well ahead of runner-up Mark Yatich and 1999 winner Simon Bor. Jane Salumae of Estonia, who trains in San Diego County, won the women’s title with an unofficial time of 2:33:34. […]
HUNGRY, lost and confused a 10-year-old Morrocan boy was picked up by Italian police on Monday after he travelled 1,600 km hidden in the luggage compartment of a coach. Mounir hid himself in the tourist bus before it left his Morrocan home town of Tangiers in the hope of making his way to his aunt’s […]
HUNDREDS of residents have fled clashes between two communities as the death toll from four days of violence rose to 32 in the southwest Nigerian state of Osun, witnesses said on Tuesday. Renewed hostilities erupted on Friday between the people of Ife and Modakeke, two age-old rivals fighting over ownership of land and political authority […]
MORE than 14000 nurses have left South Africa during the past year, SABC television news reported on Sunday. The nurses cited poor working conditions, poor pay and understaffed hospitals as factors driving them away. They saids they receive better salaries, with clothing allowances, as well as accommodation in countries like Saudi Arabia and the United […]