A DELEGATION from armaments parastatal Denel will be represented on this week’s high-powered trade visit to Libya. However, CEO Max Sisulu said at the weekend that Denel is not planning to sell weapons to Libya. He said: “We are not going there to sell arms, we are going there to sell South Africa.” Sisulu noted […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 12.15pm. A REPORT on an audit of Portnet’s conculkting contracts has cleared the harbours parastatal of any crime, but found that Portnet management had “no clear guideline or policy to be followed in the appointment of consultants”. Following the release of the audit report on Friday, Portnet MD Rob Childs […]

THE Zimbabwean government denied on Thursday that it needs an extra Z$1,2-billion ($31-million) to finance its military operations in the Congo where it is backing President Laurent Kabila against rebel forces. Defence Minister Moven Mahachi dismissed a report in the weekly independent newspaper Financial Gazette that he submitted a request to President Robert Mugabe’s cabinet […]

A SELF-PROCLAIMED Nigerian prophet who in March predicted that Nigeria’s president-elect Olusegun Obasanjo will not be sworn in as president said he still stands by his words. “I am sure of what I saw, heard and I stand by it,” Pastor Tunde Bakare of Latter Rain Assembly told Monday’s edition of the independent newspaper The […]

HOUT Bay police officer Inspector Andre Ferreira will apply for bail on Monday afternoon at the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court after he was arrested by the Independent Complaints Directorate last Thursday in connection with charges of murder, perjury and attempting to defeat the ends of justice. Ferreira two weeks ago shot dead a suspect after […]

SENIOR foreign affairs official Robert McBride on Friday rejected as incorrect several media reports that he was being investigated and could be charged for the alleged assault of a woman outside an escort agency in the early hours of the morning. McBride said in a statement that the incident referred to did not happen outside […]

LONDON’S The Sunday Times claims it has evidence that Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi played a direct part in ordering the 1998 Lockerbie bombing of a PanAm jet. The paper said it is unable to publish full details of its evidence after Treasury Solicitors said that unless certain information is removed from the report, they will […]

MANCHESTER United, the English Premiership club chasing multiple European football honours, has followed Ajax Amsterdam by signing up with a Cape Town club. United, known by the Old Trafford faithful as “The Reds”, have signed a deal with FC Fortune making the Cape club their official youth soccer player development representative in southern Africa. The […]

A HIGH-LEVEL political row has broken out in Austria over the death of a Nigerian deportee, who suffocated to death on a plane on which he was held bound and gagged. Austrian President Thomas Klestil has called for a full inquiry into the death of Marcus Omafumo, who had worked abroad in Germany for many […]

THE Malawian meets in the capital Lilongwe on Friday to amend the constitution in order to pave way for a new date for the rescheduled presidential and parliamentary elections. A bill has already been discussed and approved by cabinet, giving a symbolic official stamp to the extraordinary parliament sitting which president Bakili Muluzi and speaker […]