WELL-KNOWN South African actor and television presenter Fats Dibeco died at his Soweto home on Tuesday. The 62-year-old “Bra Fats” as he was affectionately known, was a household name to thousands of SABC 1 viewers of Friday night’s top-rated sports show, Woza Weekend. Although many people, mostly the younger generation, knew him for his television […]

SABC 2 continuity presenter and Generations actress Florence Masebe, who was shot outside her Johannesburg home on Wednesday night, is in a stable condition after a six-hour operation. A spokesman for the Johannesburg private clinic where she was admitted said the surgery went well and Masebe will remain in the high care ward, which is […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 3.30pm. THE government’s two partners in its tripartite alliance must not abandon the African National Congress, despite a “job bloodbath” under the leadership of their ruling party partner, the South African Communist Party said on Thursday. SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande told the second day of the Congress of South […]

THE government plans to spend R2,6 million on rennovating and repairing Genadendal, President Thabo Mbeki’s official residence in Rondebosch, Cape Town, the Sunday Times newspaper reported on Sunday. It quoted Sivi Gounden, the acting director-general of the department of public works and administration, as saying the work will be put out to tender in two […]

BRITISH Airways Travel Clinics on Sunday reported an outbreak of a rare and highly disabling disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Konzo, a disease which damages the nervous system causing an incurable and sometimes fatal paralysis, has struck the province of Bas-Congo. It is women and children who seem to be most at risk […]

BARELY a month after blasting his ministers for “accepting huge bribes” to influence the awarding of government tenders President Robert Mugabe gave his ministers, and their deputies, hefty salary increases of 182% backdated to last month. The ministers allowances have also been hiked by 50%, according to the weekly Financial Gazette. Mugabe, his ministers and […]

ALLEGED triple murderer Charles Raboroko, a teacher at a Soweto school, on Wednesday told the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court he had not attended court on Tuesday because he was unable to pay bribe money to prison warders. He said he lacked funds to pay warders at the Johannesburg Prison who told him to give them the […]

LEADERS from Uganda and Rwanda met South Africa’s Foreign Minister Nkosazana Zuma on Sunday in yet another attempt to end the Congolese conflict, the state radio reported. The meeting at Rwakitira, about 260km southwest of Kampala, was attended by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Rwanda’s Vice President Paul Kagame, who is also defense minister, Radio […]

ETHIOPIA announced on Thursday it has totally crushed the separatist rebel Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and killed its leader Boreda Birru. Birru has been accused of killing 329 people in the eastern Harargue region. Two of his aides were also killed, according to a defence ministry statement broadcast on national radio. The OLF operated in […]