OWN CORRESPONDENT, Vosloorus | Sunday 8.00pm. ATLETICO Madrid midfielder Quinton Fortune converted a penalty to give South Africa a 1-0 victory over Togo on Sunday and a place in the second phase of the Olympic Games qualifiers. South Africa advanced 3-2 on aggregate following a 2-2 draw in Lome two weeks ago and will play […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 1.00pm. ANGRY Eerste River residents on Monday night demolished a derelict house believed to be used as a Naughty Boys gang stronghold after a 14-year-old girl was gang-raped and stabbed there at the weekend. Valencia Farmer died in Tygerberg Hospital on Monday after uttering the names of two of […]
STATE arms manufacturer Denel walked away with a R146-million contract with Marconi Marine Land and Naval Systems to supply modular charges for the British Army’s AS90 howitzer. Company officials said the contract was the largest for Somchem, the Denel subsidiary taking up the contract. The first charges will be delivered this year. The British Army […]
BELGIUM put in place a hastily arranged plan of action on Monday after Algeria’s Armed Islamic Group (GIA) threatened to unleash a “bloodbath” unless the authorities release several of its leaders. The units taking part in the anti-terrorist cell include a top police unit called Interforce, set up after terrorist attacks in the 1980s by […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 4.155pm. THE South African government on Tuesday joined international calls for the Turkish government to commute Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan’s death sentence. Ocalan, head of the Kurdish Workers’ Party, was sentenced to death by a Turkish court on Tuesday morning for treason. The department of foreign affairs said in […]
TWO Johannesburg policemen were arrested this week for allegedly helping four illegal immigrants from Mozambique to escape from a train transporting them back to their country. Investigating officer Sergeant Ian Polley of the internal tracing unit on Friday said the policemen would be charged with corruption, aiding and abetting, and assisting unlawful escapes from custody. […]
THE KwaZulu-Natal MEC of Local Government, Police and Traditional Affairs, Nyanga Ngubane, appeared briefly in the Pietermaritzburg Regional Court on Friday on charges relating to the Arms and Ammunition Act. Ngubane’s co-accused is his son S’gwili Cyril Ngubane, 35. IFP organiser and councillor Gamuntu Sithole,53, also appeared on charges of possession of the barrel of […]
MALAWI’S opposition on Friday faced a new setback in its challenge to President Bakili Muluzi’s reelection victory when a court deferred a hearing on the affair to next month. The opposition is seeking the annulment of the results of presidential elections on June 15, charging that they were rigged. The delay was necessitated when Muluzi’s […]
THE World Bank has cut off the flow of aid to Congo with $915000 dollars still in the pipeline, the bank said in a statement on Wednesday. “The balance of this grant is suspended pending the restoration of the necessary security and working conditions,” the Brazzaville office managing the funds said in a communique. The […]
MOZAMBIQUE’S public rail and port company, CFM, is soliciting neighbouring countries for the US$300-million it needs to upgrade the Sena Line, linking the country’s second port of Beira to Malawi. The 600km railway through Mozambique’s central Sofala province was heavily mined and sabotaged during the country’s 16-year civil war which ended in 1992. CFM board […]