NIGERIAN president-elect Olusegun Obasanjo arrived in Paris on Wednesday at the start of a European tour, two weeks after winning elections aimed at restoring civilian rule to his country. Obasanjo, Nigeria’s military ruler from 1976 to 1979, is to meet French President Jacques Chirac. His tour is also expected to take him to Britain, Germany […]
MOROCCO and the United Nations have signed a military agreement to identify and destroy mines and unexploded bombs still buried in the Western Sahara, UN officials based in Al Ayun said Tuesday. The agreement does not apply to minefields bordering the fortifications built by Morocco in the barren eastern part of the territory.Minurso, the UN […]
THE Constitutional Court on Tuesday reserved judgment in its hearing on the New National Party’s challenge to the government ruling that only voters with bar-coded identity books can vote in the June election. The judgment is pending the presentation of supporting documents. The NNP, which took its case to the Constitutional Court after losing its […]
MPUMALANGA housing deputy director-general Steve Ngwenya has resigned to take up a post with the Independent Electoral Commission, MEC Craig Padayachee said on Tuesday. Addressing the provincial portfolio committee on housing and local government, Padayachee said Ngwenya will join the IEC as Mpumalanga’s electoral officer. Housing department spokesman Leon Mbangwa also resigned from the department […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.30pm. MONDAY’S decision to appoint Ghana and Nigeria as the co-hosts of next year’s African Nations Cup finals in place of Zimbabwe has meant an overhaul in the format of the tournament’s qualifying competition. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has annulled the preliminary round records of the new hosts […]
THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee on Tuesday granted amnesty to apartheid-era spy Dieter Gerhardt. Gerhardt (64), a former commander of Simon’s Town naval base, was sentenced in the Cape Town High Court in 1983 to life imprisonment for spying for the former Soviet Union. He was released in 1992 as a political prisoner […]
THE Constitutional Court on Tuesday reserved judgment in its hearing on the New National Party’s challenge to the government ruling that only voters with bar-coded identity books can vote in the June election. The judgement is pending the presentation of supporting documents. The NNP, which took its case to the Constitutional Court after losing its […]
ERNIE ELS slipped a spot to fourth in the world rankings on Monday after American Mark O’Meara rose two places to third after finishing joint third in the Honda Classic. Vijay Singh, who won the Coral Springs tournament by two strokes on Sunday, climbed one place to seventh. Tiger Woods leads the rankings with fellow […]
PROFESSOR Willem van Riet has been appointed acting chairman of the board of trustees of South African National Parks. The appointment by Environmental Affairs Minister Pallo Jordan follows the resignation of Vusi Khanyile on March 12. Khanyile cited increased work pressure as managing director of Thebe Investments as the reason for his departure in a […]
TWO members of the Azanian People’s Liberation Army were convicted in the Bisho High Court on Monday of the 1994 murder of three Iranian nationals belonging to the Baha’i Faith church. The men claimed the crime had been politically motivated, and that they had mistook the Persians for “Boers”. The men have applied for amnesty […]