POLICE on Thursday said the car that Kaizer Chiefs midfielder Lifa Gqosha was driving when he was arrested and shot was not stolen. The Star newspaper reports that an unnamed investigating officer confirmed Gqosha’s claim that the car belongs to him, when the battered soccer star appeared before the Protea Magistrate’s Court in Soweto on […]
ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba on Wednesday dismissed a peace agreement for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) brokered in Libya, telling a press conference in Kigali that it ”amounts to nothing.” Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia and Chad are supporting President Laurent Kabila’s forces in the DRC — although Chad announced Friday it was withdrawing its 1,000 […]
ANDY COLQUHOUN, Cape Town | Monday 2.00pm. THE Otago Highlanders assured themselves of a place in the Super 12 semi-finals and South Africa’s Stormers are almost there although five other teams are still in the hunt for the final two places. The Highlanders’ fortuitous 9-8 victory over the ACT Brumbies put them onto 34 points […]
FORMER United Democratic Movement (UDM) leader in the Western Cape Johan Slabbert on Friday announced he has joined the African Christian Democratic Party. He resigned from the UDM for what he thought was the best political solution for the country and the province. He realised that the basic problem is that of relationships. “If you […]
HUNDREDS of engineers and technicians employed by Zimbabwe’s state-owned Posts and Telecommunications Corporation have been fired for going on strike, the corporation announced on Friday. Postmaster-General Sizo Mhlanga accused the workers of having sabotaged equipment since the strike began on Tuesday, and said the mass sacking was aimed at preventing further destruction of property. The […]
MPUMALANGA MEC Luckson Mathebula appears in court again on Friday for allegedly beating his wife with a wooden elephant curio. Mathebula is charged with common assault for allegedly beating his common law wife, Rose Aletta Mnisi, 32, on May 29 last year. Mnisi claims she spent six weeks in hospital recovering from the alleged beating. […]
ETOILE du Sahel of Tunisia drew 2-2 with Express of Uganda in the CAF Cup second round first leg match played on Saturday. Etoile took the lead in the 12th minute through El-Mamani Ridha and added a second through El-Bargui Hakim in the 15th minute, before Express pulled one back in the 30th minute through […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela on Friday received two honorary doctorates from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Mandela, who arrived in Moscow on Wednesday for a three-day state visit, told members of the academy that he will always cherish his association with the great intellectuals. “I would interpret your action also as a tribute to […]
EVANS MODISE, a member of the police VIP protection unit and a bodyguard to Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder, in the Mamelodi Magistrate’s Court. Modise is alleged to have beaten to death a neighbour, Hluphekile Baloyi, on New Year’s Eve, by beating his head against the road. […]
AN international conference on landmines opens in the Mozambican capital on Monday. The five-day meeting is expected to bring together 800 delegates from the signatories of the 1997 Ottawa Treaty banning the production and marketing of mines. At least 134 countries signed the Ottawa Convention, but only 72, most those that have suffered the effects […]