ONE person was killed and two seriously injured in a helicopter crash in Port Elizabeth on Thursday morning. Police said Port Elizabeth airport control received a distress signal from the pilot of the Alouette 3 military helicopter from the First Forward Air Command at just after ten. A police aeroplane managed to spot the wreckage […]

THE bodies of the two pilots of the Learjet shot down on Sunday by Ethiopian troops have been recovered and are to be transported to the capital, Addis Ababa. Speaking by telephone from Addis Ababa, South African ambassador to Ethiopia Kingsley Mamabolo said the Ethiopian government regards the downing of the aircraft as “regrettable”. Mamabolo […]

OVER 150 Columbus Stainless Steel workers are scheduled to appear in the Middelburg magistrate’s court on Thursday on intimidation and contempt of court charges. The 151 workers were arrested two months ago after allegedly defying a court order and trespassing on Columbus’ Middelburg plant during a wage dispute strike. The strike saw 500 National Union […]

MEMBERS of the Namibian Defence Force who allegedly perpetrated human rights violations in the northwestern Caprivi region could go unpunished. Defence spokesman Vincent Mwange told The Namibian that no steps are being taken against the perpetrators at the moment. He said if anything is done, it will be internal disciplinary action. “They will be subjected […]

LEFT-HANDERS Alistair Campbell and Andy Flower anchored Zimbabwe Thursday to a reasonable total of 244 for nine in their 50 overs against West Indies in the inaugural Singapore International Challenge tournament. Opting to bat first, Zimbabwe suffered an early setback when World Cup hero Neil Johnson was dismissed by Mervyn Dillon in the second over. […]

TELFORD VICE, Cape Town | Tuesday 3.30pm. CRICKET’S scales of racial justice tipped further toward equilibrium on Tuesday when Vincent Barnes was named coach of the senior Western Province team from next season. Barnes will become the first black coach of a senior provincial side in South Africa in the post-unity era, having served as […]

AROUND 300 Egyptian beachgoers have drowned since June along the Alexandria coastline, at least twice as many as last year, officials said on Wednesday. The increase is a result of a shortage of lifeguards and an increase in the number of visitors, officials said. The Al-Ahram Hebdo, a French-language weekly, said only 32 lifeguards work […]

INVESTMENT bank Deutsche Bank said on Wednesday that it has cut its rating for shares in mining group Anglo American Plc to ”market perform” from ”buy” and advised investors to switch out of the stock and into Rio Tinto Plc. In a research note, Deutsche said Anglo’s shares – which have risen sharply since their […]

FORMER President Nelson Mandela’s wife Graa Machel has declined an invitation by the cash-strapped University of Fort Hare to take up its chancellorship, forcing the postponement by more than a month of a special graduation ceremony that had been planned for next week. Machel was the only candidate selected by Fort Hare to succeed liberation […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 9.20am RESERVE Bank Governor Tito Mboweni on Wednesday warned the country’s current account has slipped into deficit in the second quarter of the year and could remain in the red for the rest of 1999. But South Africa’s first black central bank boss said that foreign investment in the country […]