FREEZING cold weather is expected to last a few days after snow fell in KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and Lesotho on Tuesday, the weather bureau said. Bureau spokesman Peter Pretorius said although the cold front has passed, it will still take a few days before it started warming up again. Pretorius said the front was a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Manchester | Wednesday 4.25pm. BAFANA Bafana midfielder Quinton Fortune on Wednesday completed his move to Manchester United after being issued with a work permit. Fortune has signed a four-year contract at Old Trafford following his transfer from Atletico Madrid in a deal worth a reported 1.5-million. The midfielder, a member of South Africa’s […]
EIGHT civilians have been killed in two ambushes blamed on rebels in eastern Angola, private Catholic radio Ecclesia reported on Wednesday. On Monday six people were killed in an ambush while heading for Kota, some 400 kilometers east of the capital Luanda, from Malanje in search of food, which has become scarce since civil war […]
Nepal is honouring former president Nelson Mandela with an award dedicated to the memory of a Nepalese revolutionary.
PHILLIP NKOSI, Middelburg | Wednesday 2.25pm ANGLO American Coal Corporation (Amcoal) is to meet the National Union of Mineworkers later on Wednesday to try to end a five-day strike by 9000 miners in eight of the company’s nine mines in Mpumalanga. NUM provincial chairman Crosby Moni said the meeting was called by Amcoal, and will […]
FORMER Angolan oil minister Joao Landoide has been nominated as executive secretary of the Southern African Development Community, an Angolan government source said late on Tuesday. Kaire Mbuende of Namibia, who had held the post since 1997, stepped down amid charges of incompetence at the 14-country grouping’s summit last Wednesday in the Mozambican capital Maputo. […]
PHILLIP NKOSI, Nelspruit | Wednesday 8.30pm MUNICIPALITIES throughout Mpumalanga face having their prime assets attached by commercial banks after failing to repay loans totalling millions of rands. Local government MEC Fish Mahlalela confirmed on Tuesday that banks such as Sanlam are about to move against at least four towns in the province. He criticised the […]
THE Pretoria High Court on Wednesday ordered that the assets of apartheid chemical and biological warfare expert Wouter Basson may not be seized. Basson challenged an interim order obtained by the Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka to seize assets to the value of R44-million under the Prevention of Organised Crime Act. The court found […]
THE launch of Botswana’s national television station has been delayed until next year because construction is already four months behind schedule. However, Botswana’s first independent commercial radio station Yarona 106,6fm went live on the air on Sunday — three weeks early. Director of Information and Broadcasting Ted Makgekgenene said the 250 million pula project — […]
POLICE in Johannesburg as to press charges against the Congress of South African Students for an “illegal march” on Tuesday that turned violent as student went on the rampage. Inspector Mary Martins-Engelbrecht on Wednesday said about 3000 Cosas students marched in Braamfontein, some of whom went on the rampage and caused damage to property in […]