MOUNT Cameroon, a volcano about 70km from Cameroon’s economic capital, Douala, erupted and began spewing lava late on Sunday, people living close to the mountain said. Initial reports said there have been no casualties so far and the lava flows do not directly threaten any inhabitants. However some radio and television installations have been damaged. […]
SOUTH Africa’s poultry industry will apply for anti-dumping measures to be taken against the United States following the apparent failure of tariff adjustments to various imports, says the Southern African Poultry Association. The association claims that adjusted tariffs have not slowed imports from the US, as much as 11000 tons of leg quarters between November […]
SUPER attourney-general, National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka, is investigating the possibility of appealing against the sentence of Benoni farmer Nicholas Steyn, who fatally shot six-month-old Angelina Zwane last year. Justice Minister Dullah Omar said on Monday that he has met Ngcuka, who is looking into the way the case was investigated, the evidence […]
SHARES in sport television company SuperSport International Holdings gained more than 3% on Monday after it announced it was to acquire a stake in the Natal Rugby Union. By 12:30pm, the share had gained 10 cents or 3,03% to 340 cents in thin volume. SuperSport advised its shareholders in a cautionary notice that the company […]
THE Western Cape Boland seems engulfed in flames on Sunday as firefighters battle to contain three seperate blazes. Firefighters in the Boland winelands are battling on Sunday to safeguard houses as the fire spreads towards Ceres from Tulbach A second fire in the Klein Drakensberg mountains near Stellenbosch is moving up the mountain, although no […]
TWO more children are being treated for cholera in Durban, SABC radio news reports. The latest infections bring to four the number of children in the city with the disease. The four are all members of the same family, and are all in a stable condition in the King VII Edward Hospital . City health […]
AN underground plastic pipeline, carrying non-uranium bearing chemical effluent to one of the evaporation pans of the Atomic Energy Corporation leaked, releasing fluoride containing effluent into the Moganwe Spruit, the AEC said on Friday. The leak occured on March 18 and “immediate corrective actions were taken,” the AEC said. The pumping of effluent was stopped […]
NAMIBIA’S Minister of Mines and Energy cannot guarantee the mineral rights of the liquidated Tsumeb Corporation Limited to any specific party at this stage, Permanent Secretary Siseho Simasiku said at the weekend. In a statement clarifying the position on TCL’s mineral rights, Simasiku said the law entitles Minister Andimba Toivo ya Toivo to cancel the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Hong Kong | Monday 11.30am. SOUTH Africa is learning the art of seven-a-side rugby in a correspondence course with traditional rivals New Zealand as it rebuilds towards the next World Cup. The reigning 15-a-side world champions want to dominate the shortened version of the game as well, Sevens coach Deon Oosthuysen said as […]
HUNDREDS of Zulu’s gathered at at the King Zwelithini Stadium in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, on Sunday morning to commemorate the 1994 Shell House massacre. In 1994 eight Zulu marchers were shot dead in front of the African National Congress Shell House headquarters when a gathering of Zulu demonstrators marched through Johannesburg in support of the Zulu […]