A Transkei pensioner was shot dead by a group of men armed with R5 semi-automatic rifles just minutes after returning home from Maclear with his monthly pension money and shopping bag of groceries on Friday evening. Police representative Nondumisa Jafta said Speelman Maxoxo (65) and his wife had just returned home to Ngqayi when the […]

THE Malawi Posts and Telecommunications Corporation has embarked on a $58-million project to improve the country’s telephone network to cope with the growing number of users. The new project will see nearly 44000 connected. Commissioning of the digital telephone services will begin during the month of September. Under the project, the corporation will also replace […]

IN Malawi, by-laws prohibiting people from urinating on walls and trees and littering in the country’s capital Blantyre are on the cards. According to the new laws, transgressors are liable for an instant fine or prosecution. The government says spitting and urinating in public discourages tourists. Once the by-laws are in place it will initiate […]

THE Heath Special Investigative Unit on Friday started recovering money and assets belonging to the Northern Province. Provincial head of investigations for Heath, Frank Vos, said that one priority is to probe an estimated 15000 ghost workers in several departments, in an attempt to recover more than R2-million paid out to non-existent staff in March […]

SHARON HAMMOND, Witbank | Sunday 7.00pm OUTRAGED Mpumalanga motorists are dragging the operators of the R2-billion Maputo Toll Road to the Competitions Board and Constitutional Court in a desperate attempt to shut all three tollgates road down. The N4 Road Users Association has lodged a complaint with the Competitions Board alleging that toll road operator, […]

NINE blind and visually impaired young people from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Britain reached the summit of Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, on Thursday. The expedition was organised by Charity Sight Savers International, with support from British Airways, to show the world the scope of blind people’s capabilities and raise vital funds for combating cataracts in […]

BRENDA FASSIE and Nigerian star Femi Kuti were late on Saturday night pronounced Africa’s best female and best male performers at the 1999 Kora All Africa Music Awards at Sun City, northwest of Johannesburg. The artists, and a spread of others from across the continent, received their awards at a glittering ceremony attended by about […]

ANGOLAN Football Association chairman Armando Machado has told a Luanda magazine that he wants to challenge Issa Hayatou of Cameroon for the African Football Confederation (CAF) presidency. Former international athlete Hayatou has ruled African football since 1988 and will be bidding for a fourth four-year term during a CAF meeting in Accra before the African […]

THE Confederation of African Football (CAF) has rejected demands by ASEC of Cote d’Ivoire and Esperance of Tunisia that they compete in the first world club championships. Brazil will host the event from January 5-14 and ASEC believe they should represent Africa as holders of the African Champions League title. Esperance base their case on […]

PHILIP MOROBI and JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Sunday 5.00pm MPUMALANGA has quietly reappointed its disgraced finance director, Shadrack Mashele, despite hounding him out of government last year for his role in a R51-million fraud scam. Mashele allegedly helped his brother’s company, Senoko Enterprises, claim over R16-million from Mpumalanga’s education department for non-existent services. The scam […]