THE head of the crime prevention unit at Gilead in Northern Province, Inspector MA Maifo, has been arrested for possessing R30000 in counterfeit notes. Maifo was arrested in a sting operation at Nedbank’s Potgietersrus branch on Friday, police spokeswoman Ronel Otto said on Monday. He appeared in the Potgietersrus Magistrate’s Court the same day and […]

A MPUMALANGA court on Monday issued a warrant for the arrest of Safety and Security MEC Jacques Modipane after he failed to pay child support maintenance, SABC radio reported. The order to arrest Modipane was issued at Siyabuswa, in the former KwaNdebele and follows his failure to pay maintenance for a child he fathered in […]

TRANSPORT Minister Mac Maharaj is expected to meet the South African Bus Employers Association and four unions representing transport workers in an attempt to end the six-day-old bus strike that has left scores of commuters without transport. Talks between the unions and Sabea under the auspices of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, broke […]

RESCUE services on Monday launched an air and sea search for the remaining 13 crew of a missing South African trawler after the bodies of three crew were recovered off the Eastern Cape coast, police said. The bodies were recovered mid-Monday in the Indian Ocean off the fishing port of Cape St. Francis, police Superintendent […]

MOZAMBIQUE’S northern-most provinces of Niassa and Cabo Delgado will get power from the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi in the near future, the daily paper Noticias reports. Work to extend the Cahora Bassa grid to the areas will be funded by Norway and Sweden who are currently negotiating with the Mozambican government on the […]

FUEL prices are likely to rise by as much as 20c a litre early next month following recent rises in world oil prices. Figures from the Central Energy Fund show a price underrecovery of some 17c per litre. If oil prices remain at their current levels, the petrol price will have to be raised by […]

BOTSWANA sold 17,8 tons of ivory by auction to a group of Japanese buyers on Saturday, Ministry of Commerce and Industry deputy permanent secretary Vincent Selato confirmed on Monday. Proceeds from the sale, which were not divulged, are to be used to aid conservation, largely for the management of Botswana’s elephant population, which numbers between […]

AFRICAN National Congress chief whip in the National ssembly, Tony Yengeni, on Monday said he will ”definitely not” be his party’s candidate for Western Cape premier. He said ANC president Thabo Mbeki and the party’s national executive committee will decide who its premiership candidates would be. He has not been approached. ”I have always accepted […]

South Africa have drawn Ukraine, Denmark and Latvia in their Europe/Africa Fed Cup Group I qualifying tournament. The first seeded South Africans will play Denmark on Monday.

EGYPTIAN President Hosni Mubarak inaugurated the first subway line beneath the Nile River on Sunday. Cairo started expanding an underground commuter railway a decade ago to relieve traffic congestion and has just finished phase three. The third portion of the city’s second metro line links Sadat station in central Tahrir Square, site of the Nile […]