ISRAEL is to recall its ambassador to South Africa to question him about reports of a relationship with a South African army officer. Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the ambassador, Uri Oren, to return home after receiving a detailed report on the case, said ministry spokesman Aviv Shiron. A South African National Defence Force inquiry […]
KWAZULU-NATAL’S ruling Inkatha Freedom Party on Tuesday voted in favour of removing the African National Congress’ Bheki Cele from the chairmanship of the provincial portfolio committee on safety and security. In a statement the IFP defended its decision saying: “In the interests of good governance and better relations between parliament (the legislature) and the executive, […]
OMAN and South Africa are looking for ways to step up their cooperation, the official ONA news agency said on Tuesday, reporting on talks between Sultan Qaboos ibn Said of Oman and President Nelson Mandela. The two leaders reportedly discussed greater bilateral cooperation and the political situation in the Arab world. Mandela’s trip with Foreign […]
FRANCE will provide FF2-million to assist in Operation Blue Crane, the Southern African Development Community peacekeeping exercise which begins on Wednesday. The contribution will consist of equipment and staff for the exercise, including a C160 military transport aircraft and a P400 French Navy ship, a patrol boat based in Reunion. Additionally, six French officers specialising […]
IT took the police four attempts to record the correct version of the claims made by a woman alleging she was raped by national cricketer Makhaya Ntini, the East London Regional Court heard on Tuesday. Investigating officer Detective Sergeant Edward Ntakana said the first statement was lost when his notebook was stolen out of his […]
THE Wellington Hurricanes blew away the Sharks 34-18 in their Super 12 encounter in East London on Saturday. The Hurricanes led 24-15 at the break. The Sharks were convincingly outplayed by the visitors, obviously smarting from their 43-27 thrashing by the Cats last weekend. The South Africans, playing at the Basil Kenyon Stadium rather than […]
NIGERIAN communities demanding compensation for a Mobil Corporation oil spill threatened on Sunday to halt the operations of other oil majors working in the Niger Delta. A statement from the group of 61 communities said Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, Agip and Texaco will be targeted this week to put pressure on Mobil to pay for […]
MORE and more businesses in South Africa are going bust. Data supplied by Statistics South Africa in Pretoria Thursday reveal that in the three months to end February 1005 companies went out of business — 58% more than the corresponding period last year when there 636 liquidations. Statistics SA remarked that this was part of […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandlela is planning to build an R8-million house in the Mozambican capital Maputo, Afrikaans daily Beeld reports. The paper said Mandela is to build the house to share with his wife Graa Machel in the upmarket Summer Shields suburb, a stone’s throw from the home of Mozambican President Joachim Chissano. The newspaper said […]
THE Zambian government’s failure to beat the March 31 deadline to sell its loss-making Konkola, Nkana, Nchanga and Nampundwe copper mines could undermine its economy, which registered a negative 2% growth last year, economists say. The delay in selling the mines is attributed to Anglo American Corporation’s failure to secure $90-million and a major mining […]