NIGERIA’S new President Olusegun Obasanjo has retired 93 military officers who have held political appointments in the last 14 years to achieve a “clean break” with the junta-dominated past. The officers, ranking from lieutentant colonel to major general in the military, police and customs, who held political appointments between 1985 and 1999 have been retired […]
THE South African National Civic Organisation and the Congress of South African Trade Unions in the Eastern Cape are to team up to mobilise support against the construction of a casino at the Marina Glen site. Sanco spokesperson Benson Hobo says Gompo Leisure, the successful bidders for an East London casino licence, must face the […]
President Nelson Mandela for the last time on Friday received the credentials of 10 new ambassadors and two high commissioners to South Africa at the presidential guest house in Pretoria. The new ambassadors are Ro Min Su from North Korea, Kyaw Thu from Myanmar, Boris Herrera from Chile, Marcos Rodriguez Costa from Cuba, Anatole Khonda […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Brisbane | Saturday 5.30pm. FORMER Springbok captain Tiaan Strauss celebrated his first match for his adopted home with an historic hat-trick as Australia brushed aside Ireland 46-10 in the first test at Ballymore on Saturday. Strauss’s arrival as a replacement five minutes into the second half heralded a turnaround for the rusty Australians, […]
NIGERIA leads while Kenya ranks fifth among 23 countries where bribery is rampant worldwide, a report by an anti-corruption body says. According to the Berlin-based Transparency International, Denmark is last on the list. The report, ‘1998 corruption perception index’, says that in 1996 and 1997, the World Bank and IMF fund set precedents in delaying […]
FIFTEEN southern African and Indian Ocean island countries on Friday adopted a health cooperation plan for disease prevention and control. The World Health Organisation said the “health cooperation framework and action plan” was agreed upon at the end of a five-day meeting in Harare of the countries’ health and interior ministers. The WHO said the […]
FOUR teenagers who were convicted of murder on Thursday will be medically tested to verify their claim that they are under 18, and minors in the eyes of the law. The Nelspruit Regional Court found that the four, along with Mathews Thabe (18) murdered Amos Nkosi (46) on March 15 after Nkosi refused to move […]
VETERAN human rights campaigner Ellen Khuzwayo, who was admitted to hospital after collapsing on election day last week, was on Friday still “very ill” and being assessed on a 24-hour basis. Khuzwayo, (84) who was admitted to the Tshepo Themba Hospital in Dobsonville, Soweto, is undergoing a series of tests to ascertain the nature of […]
ONE person was killed and 25 wounded when gunmen opened fire on a group of people enjoying a braai at Hanover Park in Cape Town late on Saturday, police said. Police spokesman Captain Neville Malila said Sunday the occupants of two cars drove past a house in Hanover Park and opened fire with an automatic […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Leeds | Sunday 8.00pm. STEVE Waugh played yet another masterful innings to lead Australia into the semi-finals of the World Cup on Sunday, scoring an unbeaten 120 as his team reached 272 for five to beat South Africa by five wickets in a Headingley thriller. The result means the two rivals will meet […]